Cynthia Nixon to visit Rochester today: Where she'll stop

ALBANY -- Democratic gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon will make her first campaign stop in Rochester on Thursday.

The Sex and the City star, who announced her challenge to Gov. Andrew Cuomo last month, will speak to supporters at 3:30 p.m. at 1872 Cafe.

The cafe is located at the site where Susan B. Anthony cast an illegal vote in 1872.

Nixon announced her candidacy for governor March 19 and has started to visit parts of upstate New York.

Last week, she spoke in Albany. On Wednesday, she stopped in Hoosick Falls -- a village outside Albany that had dealt with major water contamination.

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The trip to Rochester will be her first to western New York since she started her run against Cuomo, who is seeking a third term in November.

Nixon has made funding for schools a main plank of her campaign.

"As always with Andrew Cuomo, it is black, brown and low-income children who will get the worst end of the deal while developers, bankers, and hedge funds keep walking through Albany’s revolving door," Nixon said March 26 in Albany.

Cuomo has touted an additional $1 billion for schools in the state budget approved March 31.

The budget, Cuomo said in a statement after the budget passed, "protects New York's future with record funding for education, coupled with new reforms that finally ensure transparency and equity in how that funding is distributed."