The actor Cynthia Nixon announced that she is running for New York governor, in a move that will pit her against the incumbent Democrat, Andrew Cuomo. Her website suggests that she will be coming at the 'centrist and Albany insider' Cuomo from the left, and attacking him for his 'inhumane budgets', for 'selling New York off to the highest bidder' and for not sorting out the increasingly decrepit New York subway system. If she’s elected, she will be the first female and first openly gay governor of New York.

Go Nixon! Cynthia to run as New York governor