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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.

They were apparently going to move her to being a nominee for an Assembly seat, but several activists revolted. Now she’s staying on the line.

Will she campaign actively? Who knows? As you pointed out, they need her to be at least active enough to get the 50,000 votes needed to stay on the ballot. The Liberal Party lost its line this way in 2002.

Especially since the Green Party has its own nominee and something called the Serve America Movement petitioned its way onto the ballot with the (female) former Democrat mayor of Syracuse as its gubernatorial candidate.

(Oddly, the Conservative Party’s very first gubernatorial candidate, David Jaquith, was an obscure politician from Syracuse.)

Yes, I remember when Cuomo lost the gubernatorial primary to McCall but stayed on the Liberal Party line (instead of begging off the ballot through a judicial race) and didn’t campaign, thus killing off the Liberal Party when it didn’t get 50,000 votes. I didn’t know that the Liberal Party had been active in the early 2010s, much less that it had endorsed Bob Turner; but I’m not surprised that the last vestiges of the party were pro-Israel, given that the Liberal Party always had been heavily Jewish, and, in fact, was founded to provide Jewish garment workers with a way to vote for FDR without having to vote for the party of Tammany Hall.