I would be shocked if Nixon didn’t stay on the ballot as the Working Families nominee. Why would she do Cuomo any favors by moving out of state or accepting a different nomination, which is what would be required for her to be taken off the ballot? But, unfortunately, having her name on the ballot may not be enough to peel off enough votes from Cuomo to give the election to GOP nominee Marc Molinaro; we need for Nixon to campaign and to keep attacking Cuomo.
In the RAT AG race, I don’t think that Letitia James could have defeated the absurdly named Zephyr Teachout had Congressman Sean Maloney not run. James won by a big margin in metro NYC, but was a non-factor Upstate, and Teachout would have racked up much higher vote margins Upstate without Maloney getting like 40% of the Upstate vote. If a “fag hag” is a heterosexual woman who does favors for homosexual men, what’s the term for the opposite, a homosexual man who helps out a straight woman? Maybe they should be called “Maloneys.”
In the Democrat state senate primaries, a bunch of moonbats unseated Democrat incumbents that previously had entered into a power-sharing arrangement with Republican senators. I think that only one of those wins could help the GOP pick up a senate seat: Rachel May’s upset victory over moderate Democrat Dave Valesky. https://cnycentral.com/news/local/in-stunning-upset-rachel-may-defeats-dave-valesky-in-state-senate-democratic-primary Valesky represents the GOP-leaning 53rd district in Madison County and parts of Oneida and Onondaga (including the eastern part of Syracuse). https://www.nysenate.gov/district/53 Economist and former Syracuse GOP chairman Janet Burman is the GOP and Conservative Party nominee, and if she can raise some money and campaign hard she can win this election. May is far too liberal for the district and, even more importantly, Valesky remains on the ballot as the nominee of the Independence Party. It would be sweet revenge for Republicans, given that Valesky was first elected with a narrow plurality over a GOP incumbent in 2004 because the Conservative Party nominee (who had lost the GOP primary) got 11% of the vote in the general.
There are two other NY state senate districts that are eminently winnable for the GOP, both in Long Island:
SD-08 (Nassau and Suffolk Counties), represented by freshman RAT John Brooks, who “won” by 257 votes after GOP incumbent Michael Venditto faced bad publicity from his father’s arrest for corruption.
SD-09 (Nassau County), represented by freshman RAT Todd Kaminsky, who narrowly “won” an April 2016 special election following GOP leader Dean Skelos’s expulsion from the senate after his federal conviction for corruption, and who won the regular general that November by 5%.
Currently, there are 31 Republicans, 1 Democrat that caucuses with the GOP (the conservative Simcha Felder, from the heavily Orthodox Jewish state senate district in Brooklyn) and 31 Democrats in the NY state senate. If the GOP can pick up one or more of the three winnable state senate seats, it would ward against the possible loss of control of the state senate due to losses in seats in which the GOP incumbent retired.
You’re right I should have said “I hope she stays in the race” cause just being on the ballot and not campaigning probably won’t hurt Cuomo enough to give us a chance.
Here’s why I thought the WF Party (Union Thugs) might “encourage” her to get off the ballot, ballot access. They need their nominee to get 50K votes for Governor or they lose it.
Cuomo was the Liberal party nominee in 2002, I believe he quit before the Dem primary which he was gonna lose anyway. But he stayed the Liberal nominee and didn’t come close to 50K and Liberal party lost it’s ballot access and that basically ended them as a political force in the state. Last I heard of them was they gave their ballot line to Bob Turner in that special election he won, making him a rare Liberal/Conservative nominee, their reason was Turner’s support of Israel, I guess whomever is left in that party likes Israel.
An article says WF had a plan in place to run Nixon for Assembly, with their Assembly candidate running for Judge. However I forgot that all the pro-Cuomo unions pulled out when they endorsed Nixon and now hard core Stalinists who hate Cuomo are in change and they seem reluctant to support him. So they may instead encourage her to stay in the race, at least to the extent of clearing 50K votes, even if she doesn’t campaign one would figure there should be enough protest votes but who knows.
Either way, their priority is making sure they get that 50K.
Gosh darn I have a lot of trouble spelling Cuomo.
I wish the GOP in Alaska was as successful as the NY rats at defeating “coalition” apostates. The NY rats lost even after ending the arrangement months before the election.
I was glad to see Felder (also GOP and conservative nominee and defacto a Republican like that guy in Washington State, Tim Sheldon) won his rat primary easily.