Actress Cynthia Nixon of Sex and the City to run for NY Governor

[Joey1996]

Do Tom Carper and Mazie Hirono have primary challengers yet?

Not that I know of, doubt Gabbard would run against Hirono.

Gabbard is just as bad as Hirono.

Well who else would challenge her? Kaniela Ing needs to win his current race.

[America Needs a 13-6 Progressive SCOTUS]

Hirono is quite good but IIRC Carper got a challenger a while back.

No

[Duke of York]

Im not the biggest fan of Cuomo but but he's done a decent job as governor and I see no reason to oust him in favor of a actress with no political experience and zero qualifications. Being Governor is a monumental job and is not something we should just handover on a whim. Trump should be proof of that.

[Blair]

Fwiw I don’t know who I’d vote for (probably Nixon) but at least another energised primary challenge  should show Cuomo he shouldn’t run for President.

Was the rampant corruption known of in 2014?

[MAINEiac4434]

https://twitter.com/firescotch/status/975795790592577541

[Dr Oz Lost Party!]

That was a very good announcement video, btw.

[Anna Komnene]

Fwiw I don’t know who I’d vote for (probably Nixon) but at least another energised primary challenge  should show Cuomo he shouldn’t run for President.

Was the rampant corruption known of in 2014?

Yep. The Moreland Commission, which was created to investigate corruption and promptly shutdown by Cuomo when it started to investigate his own crap (sound familiar?), was a massive scandal and one of the hallmarks of Zephyr Teachout's primary challenge. She actually wrote a book about political corruption and was viewed as an anti-corruption candidate. That wasn't the only motivation for her support of course. And it wasn't the only problem that Cuomo faced. His dealings with the IDC and the Republicans to give the GOP control of the State Senate was well known. The guy even created his own "Women's Equality Party" to threaten the Working Families Party into endorsing him after they initially entertained the idea of picking Teachout instead. The party serves no purpose at all. I'm not even sure if it has an organization or a leader. It's sole purpose is to attempt to screw over the WFP, and I guess also to trick unsuspecting feminists into voting for a happy sounding "yay women equality" party. This list goes on and on and on... lol. That man is one vindictive SoB.

[Sestak]

How much more progressive is Rochester than Carper, anyway?

Also lol @ Solid acting like Hirono's 20% score is some kind of abomination. Hirono's fine.

[Progressive Pessimist]

I would probably vote for Cynthia Nixon, why not? At least she has the decency to run for something as a celebrity before going all the way to President.

[America Needs a 13-6 Progressive SCOTUS]

Andrew Cuomo is a crook.

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

What exactly are her qualifications to be Governor? Like Cuomo or not, Nixon is not qualified to be Governor of a state. You don't just reach for an executive office without any political experience.

What were Reagan's qualifications to be Governor?

Army Capt and President of the Screen Actors Guild.

I don't think you need political experience to be qualified as governor, but you should have leadership experience of some kind.  Whether this applies to Cynthia Nixon I don't know as I couldn't have put a name to her face before today.

[kyc0705]

Im not the biggest fan of Cuomo but but he's done a decent job as governor and I see no reason to oust him in favor of a actress with no political experience and zero qualifications. Being Governor is a monumental job and is not something we should just handover on a whim. Trump should be proof of that.

Trump was never the governor of anything. I don't understand the "experience" argument for offices under the presidency, because it's very open to slippery-slope arguments. What office do we decide is entry-level? Congress? State legislatures? City council? The mayor? A Homeowners board?

[BuckeyeNut]

What exactly are her qualifications to be Governor? Like Cuomo or not, Nixon is not qualified to be Governor of a state. You don't just reach for an executive office without any political experience.

What were Reagan's qualifications to be Governor?

Army Capt and President of the Screen Actors Guild.

I don't think you need political experience to be qualified as governor, but you should have leadership experience of some kind.  Whether this applies to Cynthia Nixon I don't know as I couldn't have put a name to her face before today.

This. Executive experience of any kind really is a must for someone who wants to be Governor. It can be in labor, the military, business, (non-elected) government, or the law. Or anything else, really. But Nixon is just another rich white person running for office who might be a better ideological fit - though her progressive credentials should be in question, given she just starred in a film adaptation of one of Bill O'Reilly's books -- but would almost certainly be a poor executive.

I don't live in New York though, obviously, so y'all do what you want.

[Former Kentuckian]

Endorsed. I'll probably send some money her way, too.

[Frodo]

If you were fine with Ronald Reagan and Arnold Schwarzenegger being elected governor in their day, you should be just as fine with a woman actor being elected governor. 

[junior chįmp]

Andrew Cuomo is a crook.

His name was only mentioned 132 times at the Perrocco trial

[Chief Justice Keef]

Nixon's lack of "qualifications" is a nonfactor. Frankly, there are activists like Nixon that would make far better politicians than many current officeholders. If she has good policies, which she does and Cuomo does not, then she would have my vote. Should we penalize all the veterans running for Congress as Democrats because they didn't occupy a State House/State Senate seat beforehand?

Having these qualifications is purely meritocracy. It's ludicrous to think that politics is a skill you need to learn, because it frames it as a managerial issue rather than an issue of policy, aims and values. Any Governor or President will have advisors anyways. In any case, Cuomo would be considered a "qualified" governor because of his time at HUD and being the state's top attorney, but he's run NY into the ground (don't believe me, take a ride on the NYC subway).

[Stand With Israel. Crush Hamas]

I look forward to Cuomo beating Nixon's BDSer trash campaign by 35 points, and then unleashing Schneiderman against De Blasio in retaliation.

[Oryxslayer]

Nixon's lack of "qualifications" is a nonfactor. Frankly, there are activists like Nixon that would make far better politicians than many current officeholders. If she has good policies, which she does and Cuomo does not, then she would have my vote. Should we penalize all the veterans running for Congress as Democrats because they didn't occupy a State House/State Senate seat beforehand?

Having these qualifications is purely meritocracy. It's ludicrous to think that politics is a skill you need to learn, because it frames it as a managerial issue rather than an issue of policy, aims and values. Any Governor or President will have advisors anyways. In any case, Cuomo would be considered a "qualified" governor because of his time at HUD and being the state's top attorney, but he's run NY into the ground (don't believe me, take a ride on the NYC subway).

You know, I'm highly tempted to replace she with he, Cuomo with Clinton, and Nixon with Trump and just repost the argument. If you did though, you would realize how weak this argument is though.

[Babeuf]

Nixon's lack of "qualifications" is a nonfactor. Frankly, there are activists like Nixon that would make far better politicians than many current officeholders. If she has good policies, which she does and Cuomo does not, then she would have my vote. Should we penalize all the veterans running for Congress as Democrats because they didn't occupy a State House/State Senate seat beforehand?

Having these qualifications is purely meritocracy. It's ludicrous to think that politics is a skill you need to learn, because it frames it as a managerial issue rather than an issue of policy, aims and values. Any Governor or President will have advisors anyways. In any case, Cuomo would be considered a "qualified" governor because of his time at HUD and being the state's top attorney, but he's run NY into the ground (don't believe me, take a ride on the NYC subway).

You know, I'm highly tempted to replace she with he, Cuomo with Clinton, and Nixon with Trump and just repost the argument. If you did though, you would realize how weak this argument is though.

But the problem with Trump isn't his lack of experience, it's his ideology and temperament.

[ProgressiveCanadian]

Better than Cuomo.

[KingSweden]

I’m going to need more Sex and the City jokes

[Landslide Lyndon]

Well, that escalated quickly.

https://twitter.com/nypmetro/status/976133891441512449

[DINGO Joe]

Well, that escalated quickly.

https://twitter.com/nypmetro/status/976133891441512449

Why is she not qualified to be a lesbian?

[Babeuf]

Well, that escalated quickly.

https://twitter.com/nypmetro/status/976133891441512449

lol she's still bitter over the 2013 primary. "Cynthia Nixon was opposed to having a qualified lesbian become mayor of New York City."

If Quinn hadn't been so uncritical of Bloomberg and his agenda she might have gotten Nixon's endorsement, and might even be mayor now!