Cynthia Nixon steps up to the election plate and hits the ball out of the Park leaving Cuomo stunned by her grand slam and pocketing the votes of any thinking person who listened, This game is not over , Two crucial weeks before the September primary. Nixon won the debate and my vote.
I went to Syndicated, a popular movie theater-bar-restaurant in Bushwick to watch the Cuomo/Nixon debate Some friends of mine from Occupy the Pipeline, an Occupy Wall Street off shoot who tried very hard to wake up Greenwich Village to the fact that a fracked gas pipeline was crossing the Hudson and bringing frack gas into Manhattan. Making the high rent neighborhood surrounding the High Line and the new Whitney a potential blast-zone from a possible explosion of the pipeline. The local electeds led by than City Council Speaker, Christine Quinn had been silence. Usually fracked gas is NOT transported into and though a densely populated neighborhoods like the far west Village because of the danger of an explosion,
My friends had told me they were meeting there to watch h the debate. My friend Kim, a fierce enviormental activist and wonderful large puppet maker, told me she was very impressed by Nixon. I expressed doubt that she could win but I had announced I was endorsing her. I told Kim I would ask others to vote for her. I saw my vote as more of an anti-Cuomo rather than a pro -Nixon vote I could not find my friends in the now crowed room. I secured one of the last seats as the Syndicated filled up with people in theri 20's and 30's. I think I was the oldest person in the room. I sat between a young, full bodied black woman in a red dress and her friend a very thing, white, blond young woman.
Bo y, was I surprised how aggressive and informed Mx Nixon was. Her passion was real, not acting. She refused to give Cuomo an inch. More than once asked him to stop lying. The room was hers as the debate proceeded. He called her a corporation and she repeatedly called him a lier. The biggest roar from the crowd came when she talked about rents being out of control. She pointed out his biggest donors to his campaign are real estate developers. He answer that he support rent control. But like many of his answers during the debate, she spoke fact to his generalizations, repeatedly pointing out rent control, unlike rent stabilization is controlled by Albany . To the delight of the room, she called for a serous, overhaul. Most of the millennials present do not live in rent regulated apartments, The high cost of rent drew a loud response from the young crowd. The MTA issue drew a loud response for because most of the people use the L-train to go to work, It will be shut dow for two years would affect them , I was particularly impressed in how Nixon addressed labor. Than it was over. I left with a very changed impression of Mx. Nixon. I now actually actually think if enough people will listen t this debate she has a chance of wining,
