Politics

Cynthia Nixon From ‘Sex And The City’ Is Running For Governor Of New York

Guess that means we're not getting Sex and the City 3.

by Tom Clift  20 March 2018
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Actress Cynthia Nixon, aka Miranda from Sex and the City, has announced that she is running for governor of New York. Which honestly is just such a Miranda thing to do.

Nixon, 51, will challenge incumbent two-term governor Andrew Cuomo during the upcoming Democratic primary. She is expected to mount her campaign from the political left, with a focus on issues including income inequality, healthcare, mass incarceration and New York’s dysfunctional public transit system.

“We are sick of politicians who care more about headlines and power than they do about us,” said Nixon in a video announcing her candidacy. “If we’re going to get at the root problem of inequity we have to turn the system upside-down.”

Nixon has never run for public office before, although she has been an education activist for a number of years and has spoken at fundraisers for Planned Parenthood. Were she to win office, she would be New York state’s first female governor, as well as its first openly bisexual governor.

The Democratic primary election will take place in September, ahead of the gubernatorial election in November.