In 2014, Zephyr Teachout launched a challenge to incumbent Governor Andrew Cuomo from the left. An Associate Professor of Law at Fordham University, Teachout had never run for public office before. But after seeing Cuomo abandon his progressive campaign promises in favor of a corporate agenda, Teachout felt the need to stand up against the corruption and false progressivism Cuomo embodied. Few took her candidacy seriously, with pundits predicting that Cuomo would win the primary in a landslide. But Teachout managed to earn over 30% of the vote, demonstrating that Cuomo was actually quite vulnerable to a leftist challenger. She even pushed Cuomo to the left, scaring him into opposing fracking.

Now, Zephyr Teachout is running for Attorney General to again take on the corruption and the false progressivism plaguing New York politics. As the only candidate fully refusing corporate money, Teachout considers herself “radically independent” and thus uniquely qualified to combat the toxic culture of sexual abuse and financial wrongdoing that defined Albany even before Donald Trump entered the Oval Office.

Teachout joined us on the podcast to discuss why she is best suited to lead the New York Attorney General’s Office in reshaping the criminal justice system and how she intends to protect civil rights and liberties against the Trump administration and a 5-4 conservative majority on the Supreme Court. Listen on iTunes or in your browser below:

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