The majority of House Democrats from New York are calling on Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo to resign in the wake of mounting sexual harassment allegations being made against him and his botched handling of COVID-19 deaths at state nursing homes.
And everyone’s talking about Cynthia Nixon.
As you may recall, the Sex and the City actress ran against Cuomo for the Democratic nomination to be Governor of New York back in 2018. But after being outspent 10-1, called an “unqualified lesbian” by another female politician, and accused of being an anti-Semite in a campaign mailer sent to heavily Orthodox Jewish communities, she lost by a whopping 30 points.
Governor Cuomo is mad that @CynthiaNixon has called him out for never attending a mosque in 8 years in office.
Now the official NY Democratic Party is paying for his mailers that are trying to divide and conquer New Yorkers. Shameful.
[Also, Cynthia is raising her kids Jewish.] pic.twitter.com/Ouu2uTWQLF
— Waleed Shahid (@_waleedshahid) September 8, 2018
In 2019, Nixon told Time she never really expected to win the nomination, calling her odds “very, very small,” given Cuomo’s strong political ties and deep pockets. “It was very scary,” she said about going up against him. “It was very hard on me. It was very hard on my family.”
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But it looks like she may be getting the last laugh now that his political career appears to be over after a sixth woman has come forward to accuse him of sexual misconduct. Nixon’s name has been trending all afternoon on Twitter.
Here’s what people are saying…
New York could have had Cynthia Nixon as governor AND prevented a "Sex and the City" reboot.
— Daniel Fienberg (@TheFienPrint) March 12, 2021
Remember when everyone treated Cynthia Nixon like a joke for trying to run against Cuomo? She def wouldn't have gotten Me Too'd and probably wouldn't have killed all those people in the nursing homes. She's also a lot nicer.
— Brian ?? (@Lefty_Jew) March 12, 2021
Remember when Cynthia Nixon’s biggest scandal was ordering a cinnamon raisin bagel with lox?
— Peter Fox (@thatpeterfox) March 12, 2021
I hope Cynthia Nixon has an absolutely delicious lox and cinnamon raisin bagel sandwich today
— Hilary Hughes (@hilmonstah) March 12, 2021
Cynthia Nixon reading all the calls for cuomo’s resignation pic.twitter.com/6YzJyEDwmd
— Emma Chessen (@emmachessen) March 12, 2021
I remember how disappointed I was when I woke up on election day and saw Cynthia Nixon lost NY Gov. I was so on her train.
— lauren ?? (@itslaurenkat) March 12, 2021
I'll never forget people watching Cuomo be….Cuomo and then deciding that Cynthia Nixon would be terrible because Cuomo said so.
— Brown Butter Evangelist (@krysilove) March 12, 2021
At least when cynthia nixon grabs titties it’s consensual
— Thomas Valenti (@tommyvalenti92) March 12, 2021
remember that episode of sex and the city where miranda meets a guy who likes eating ass? Cynthia Nixon would be a better Governor than Cuomo for this reason alone pic.twitter.com/YXvcmBZZR0
— jamie duong ? (@jamietakes) March 12, 2021
Cynthia Nixon was and still is VERY QUALIFIED to play the governor of New York in any movie or series.
— Edan Clay ?? ? (@EdanClay) March 12, 2021
We need to make Cynthia Nixon either an EGOT or a Governor
— Jamie Pierce (@AJamiePierce) March 12, 2021
In the final halcyon days of the summer primary of 2018 Cardi B endorsed Cynthia Nixon and Nicki Minaj endorsed Andrew Cuomo.
— Daniel #PassThePROAct??? (@escargotpro_) March 8, 2021
Cuomo resigning would do a lot of good for a lot of people, but I hope it puts a spotlight on what could’ve been for Zephyr Teachout and Cynthia Nixon. Hopeful they’ll run for something statewide again.
— StatenIslandSon_Italian! (@vodkasnowflake) March 12, 2021
NY should have a do-over and put Cynthia Nixon in the Governor's office
— ?Helvetica Hoochie (@KebabKunt) March 12, 2021
When you voted for Cynthia Nixon (you is me). pic.twitter.com/4VTfVi9s6p
— Blocka Khan (@Starr_Rocque) March 12, 2021
Graham Gremore is the Features Editor and a Staff Writer at Queerty. Follow him on Twitter @grahamgremore.
Catholicslutbox
Remember when queerty cancelled her for saying that sexuality is a choice and how she chose to be straight after coming out gay?
Cam
She didn’t say she chose to be straight. She said that being in her relationship was like being in a straight relationship because her wife was so butch she was like a man.
A problematic statement but not nearly the one you said she made.
Seth
“For me, it is a choice,” Nixon says in a New York Times Magazine profile. “I understand that for many people it’s not, but for me it’s a choice, and you don’t get to define my gayness for me.”
Weird, not a single mention in that quote about a butch girlfriend. Just ammunition given to the Republicans.
Cam
@Seth
Ugh, I knew about the other quote, but not that one. Gross. What a mess.
inbama
Dear Lord, she wasn’t talking about a straight/gay choice. She had explained she considered herself bisexual but to “keep the peace” with her wife, it was simpler to say they were gay.
People really don’t need to use the exact language of this annoying queer/gender theory we’ve had foisted on us where the standard for sitting under the bi-unbrella may be as little as thought that once crossed your mind.
There’s nothing wrong with the concept “you are what you eat.”
barryaksarben
such a troll
HankHarris
I was in the audience at the GLAAD awards when she said it – and she did say it. She said that she’d been straight, and gay, and she chose being gay – it was a choice for her. I think she thought it would get a great reaction, but it didn’t go over well, particularly at that moment when so many of the Christian right were saying exactly that, that being gay was a choice.
But hey, let’s talk about electing a celebrity who has no experience governing whatsoever – That always turns out great, right?
Catholicslutbox
Yup. @seth’s is the one I was referring to. I believe there was another one too.
HankHarris
She said it at the GLAAD awards in NYC, I was in the audience.
James (controversial2019)
I had to look up lox. Salmon?
I’ve not yet found a seafood I like, but salmon and cinnamon sounds like it would taste nasty. Anyone had it? Any good?
MacAdvisor
It is, let us say, an unconventional choice. Lox is more than just salmon, it is smoke salmon cut thin. An onion bagel with cream cheese, lox, capers, and some chives is, perhaps, a better place to start for a neophyte.
Kangol2
Or just lox/smoked salmon (with swiss cheese, etc.) on crackers, on a sandwich (with lettuce, tomato and mustard), etc. are also good. Adding cinnamon to lox/smoked salmon is taste-forward, but not out of wack with southern Mediterranean/Middle Eastern/North African cooking.
LeBlevsez
Nope. Y’all don’t get to police her statements. Maybe she isn’t a Kinsey 6. Or maybe she’s mostly asexual. Too many potential maybes, and I feel somewhat complicit in your bias by even proffering maybes. If she’s not sharing enough to satisfy you, that’s your problem, not hers. And, by the way, Republicans don’t need her statements for ammunition. Republicans will weaponize anything, including intolerant statements by blog posters.
Cam
Translation: You just did what you attacked others for, but then tried to say it was ok because you felt bad about it.
Her problem isn’t not sharing enough, it’s sharing too much apparently.
LeBlevsez
Nope again. I didn’t call anyone “gross” or “a mess”. I was uncomfortable in speculating about intimate details of someone else’s life. It was a crude way to make my point. My bad.
I do feel that it is wrong to apply some sort of purity test to determine if someone is queer enough. That is a perilous pursuit.
dhmonarch89
a fun twist they could do on Sex/City reboot- have Miranda be Mayor of NYC.
jorgecruz
Sex and the City was portrayed as this equality for women groundbreaking tv series when in fact the stories all revolved around the happiness of the characters solely driven by their absolute need to be with a man. It wasnt independent women, it was Desperate to be Housewives.
dwick
bingo! Samantha was the only one who was truly her own person.
Kangol2
Say what you will about Cynthia Nixon, but Andrew Cuomo’s chickens are coming home to roost. In addition to being linked to corruption, he has long been known to be a bully. I am no fan of Bill de Blasio, who is hapless, but fellow Democrat Cuomo repeatedly opposed or slowed his plans, and thus complicated things for New York City, for the entirety of de Blasio’s tenure. Cuomo also used to play footsie with the GOP in Albany and even enabled breakaway Democrats who slowed down legislation such that the Democratic near-majority in the state legislature could not pass the legislation that they’d promised voters. The irony is that if he had not been allegedly dishonest with those nursing home numbers, he probably could have gotten away with all of this outrageous, allegedly abusive behavior for a while longer, because people have been genuinely scared of him. Now, he’s a lame duck who will go down infamy.
Ronbo
Cuomo seems to be an Republican opportunist who only claims to be a Democrat to get elected. Does he endorse or fight for any Democratic policies?
GreekKeys
Actually, New Yorkers are having the last laugh that we didn’t have a sitcom actress in Albany when the coronavirus struck. We would’ve a half a million deaths in NY State, alone. Turning the still questionable accusations against The Governor into “a win” for Nixon is just the kind of surrealness The Wokes traffic in on a daily basis. An elaborately constructed interpretation of reality more complicated than The Hobbit but just as invented and just as untrue.
ta2t2o
Exactly. Even this article is a weak attempt to pile on with accusations. They take all these issues Nixon had in the campaign that came from multiple sources and directions and put them in an article as if to infer that Cuomo was behind all of them. Even this “last laugh” angle pushes a similar bias and attempt to character assassinate. Odd that an article in Queerty would encourage folks to make judgments on accusations without due process when the lives of so many gay people (including Nixon) have been attacked and ruined simply by accusations.
And FFS, let’s get all the accusations about who we think is a bully NOW so that 10 or 20 years folks aren’t throwing it on the pile in an attempt to character assassinate somebody.
cuteguy
Why are Dems so quick to throw one of their own under the bus? Madison Cawthorne is being protected by the GQP with their universal silence. Look out how loyal they were the last four years to Chump. The Dems look weak when they don’t protect one of their own, especially with such weak accusations against a great governor like Cuomo
Ronbo
I agree that Dems are too quick to splinter. Sen. Franken was an example of allowing the ‘best’ to be the enemy of the good. However, Cuomo seems quite a bit less than ‘great’. His profile in CityLimits “The Andrew Cuomo File: 1997-2021” reads him more Republican than Democrat.
It wouldn’t hurt Democrats to restrict membership to people on the left, actual Democrats.
Kangol2
Many Democrats in New York are fed up with Andrew Cuomo, which is why he has so few allies right now. Had he not been known to be a bully, an antagonist of Democrats (centrists and leftists), abusive (ask his ex-wife Kerry Kennedy, who slept in a locked bathroom during the end of their marriage), and linked to corruption (more so than the usual pols of either party in NY State), he probably would have more defenders.
The Democrat that should have been protected was Eliot Spitzer, who was neither corrupt (his record of prosecuting Wall Street malfeasance was legendary) nor a bully (against fellow Democrats), but he was involved in a sex scandal and doomed himself by appearing to be hypocritical, given that he had criticized others for patronizing sex workers then got caught (or was set up?) doing so himself. The fact that Roger Stone, the Patriot Act, etc. were somehow linked to Spitzer’s fall is something that has never been fully investigated.