Cynthia Nixon to Primary Andrew Cuomo for NY-GOV

[brooklynite]

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[Ilsa]

1. Has she been a councilwoman? A mayor?

Why do some famous people think they should start at the top instead of learning more about public service from the bottom-up?

I'm tired of amateurs thinking they can do these jobs.

[Me.]

3. She Hasn't

Though, I think, she has run for office (though could be wrong). She is a strong advocate for breast cancer and LGBTQ issues. I will say this, she couldn't be a worse governor then Cuomo...IMHO

[brooklynite]

4. Amateurs like Al Franken?

[Ilsa]

16. There will always be exceptions.

I gravitate towards my party, then some experience over no experience.

[OilemFirchen]

18. Which incumbent Democrat did Franken primary?

Who was the more experienced option?

[brooklynite]

19. The question was not the merits of Primarying an Incumbent...

...it was the general qualifications for office of someone without prior elected experience.

[RhodeIslandOne]

20. A Governor has a tougher job than a Senator

[NCTraveler]

2. Just read her bio.

I don't see where she has ever stepped outside of acting.

[EffieBlack]

5. We don't have enough proof that being a chief executive takes experience?

[maxsolomon]

6. Apparently not.

Trump HAD experience as a chief executive.

Bush the Lesser was a Governor.

Obama did not. He had experience as a politician: State Senator, US Senator.

[EffieBlack]

7. Trump was not a chief executive. He was a brand. He ran a family business with no board of directors

no shareholders, no accountability. That's not an executive. And he had no government experience either. So he had absolutely no experience that would help him serve as the chief executive of the federal government. None.

I didn't say someone needs to have been a chief executive to be an effective government chief executive. But they DO need to have relevant experience beyond being famous for making themselves rich. Obama had never been a chief executive, but he did have significant experience in government. And while I didn't agree with much of what Bush did, his previous experience as a governor certainly gave him the chops he needed to govern as an effective executive.

I don't want to see an actor who has never run anything, never worked in government, never represented any constituency, but who can get her name out there solely because she's a celebrity with name and face recognition, to become governor of a state, especially a state as critical as New York.

[maxsolomon]

8. OK, then don't vote for her

I'll never have that problem in WA State. No celebrities want to live here.

[Aristus]

10. Tom Skerrit does.

But he's not involved in politics.

I saw him in the role of Don Quixote (a non-dancing role) at the Pacific Northwest Ballet in Seattle.

He got a standing O.

[maxsolomon]

15. OK, Tom Skerritt

Dave Matthews, too.

I think my point stands.

[EffieBlack]

14. HaHa

[RhodeIslandOne]

9. Cynthia Its a Choice Nixon?

Hmmm

[Tarc]

11. Yay, an amateur actor with no experience wants to run a state

Straight out of the Trump playbook.

Go Cuomo!

[alarimer]

12. I hate Cuomo but I wish a REAL politician would challenge him.

Not some liberal celebrity with no experience running anything.

[Trumpocalypse]

13. As much as I detest Cuomo

we need a better candidate.

[phylny]

21. Why do you hate Cuomo?

I know Republicans in NY who can't stand him, but why don't Democrats like him?

I'm from NY but haven't lived there since 2008.

Thanks~!

[Trumpocalypse]

22. Because he's a pathetic Chris Christie wannabe

He came in and started cutting taxed and services and union benefits. He even tried to cut taxes on millionaires but the Dems stopped him. He was AG during the financial crisis in 08 and never launched a single investigation of Wall Street. Why? Because they own him.

[crazycatlady]

23. I haven't lived in NY since 2007 (but from there)

And I like Cuomo. He might not be the most progressive, but he definitely has the ability to get shit done.

HIs progressive accomplishments include marriage equality (before the Supreme Court), raising the minimum wage, and free college (needs some tweaking, but a step in the right direction).

[blake2012]

17. Haha. Good luck, dummy

[Lee-Lee]

24. She knows she cant win so this is just another acting gig

She chose a race she has no chance to win and no qualifications to run for.

In doing so she chose not to run for any of dozens of lower level offices she may have a chance of actually running for an being elected.

So one can only assume she chose the platform with the biggest reach and attention given to if she could file for, against an established incumbent of her own party, because she knows she can’t win and she just wants the attention the race will bring.

In other words, another form of theater for her. Attention on her for what she says and does, but it’s all an act because she knows she can’t win and has no intent to so as soon as she walks away it’s just another gig done on her resume. With none of the possibility of winning and actually having to do the work of governance that exists if she filed and ran in a race she would have a snowballs chance in hell of winning.