Cynthia Nixon Launches Campaign To Be Governor In Brownsville

BROWNSVILLE, NEW YORK — Cynthia Nixon held her first campaign event in Brownsville one day after the "Sex and the City" star announced she'll run against incumbent Andrew Cuomo to be governor of New York.

Nixon rallied supporters at the Bethesda Healing Center on East 98th and Union streets at 11 a.m. Tuesday to detail a campaign that "works for the many, not just the few."

“I love New York — all of New York,” said Nixon in a campaign speech that focused on racial and economic equality. “We don't have to settle for things the way they are."

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Nixon's campaign speech focused on education reform, income inequality, tenants protections laws and a promise to fix “Cuomo’s MTA.”

“Our subways are on life support,” said Nixon, who took the 3 train to and from her press conference. “We need to fix our subway system.”

Nixon also promised, as she does on her website, that she would not accept "a single dime" from corporate contributors.

This announcement inspired cheers at the the Bethesda Healing Center, the church and community center where Nixon chose to make her first campaign speech.

The campaign came just one day after Nixon launched her bid for the gubernatorial race with a video that slammed Cuomo as a "centrist and Albany insider."

Nixon painted Cuomo as "corrupt" politician — citing the recent conviction of his campaign aide Joseph Percoco — with close ties to New York State conservatives and corporate backers.

Nixon accused Cuomo of helping Republicans gerrymander the 2012 redistricting of New York State and said his failure to unite the Independent Democratic Caucus and the Democratic Party have stalled progressive bills — such as the Women's Equality agenda and the New York State Dream Act — in Albany.

“Governor Cuomo knows the more he can distract and divide us the more he can tie our governor into knots,” Nixon said, noting that small donations make just .1 percent of his $30 million campaign budget.

“If you're a regular person in New York, the chance that Cuomo is gonna care about your concerns is exactly that — point-one percent.”

Photo by Kathleen Culliton