I recently told you that Sex and the City star Cynthia Nixon was going to run for governor of New York.  At the time, many scoffed.  Now Cynthia has formally thrown her hat (does anyone still wear a hat?) in the ring.  And she’s running on the subway platform – literally!  “Our leaders are letting us down.  Something has to change.  We want our government to work again, on health care, ending mass incarceration, fixing our broken subways.”  News of her candidacy was met with derision.  Governor Cuomo said, “I’m hoping that Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie and Billy Joel don’t get into the race because if it’s just about name recognition, that would really be a problem.” 

The biggest insult came from NYC Council Speaker Christine Quinn.  “It’s a flight of fancy on her part.  Cynthia Nixon was opposed to having a qualified lesbian become mayor of New York City.  Now she wants to be an unqualified lesbian to be the governor of New York.”  Now, I don’t know much about Nixon.  But I know she was married to a man for 15 years and to a woman for five – so I say she’s qualified to do whatever the hell she wants.  I’m assuming Cynthia criticized Quinn (who is also a lesbian) when she was running for mayor of NYC.  Sounds like tit for tat – literally!  Nixon took the barb in stride.  “I just want to say tonight that she was technically right – that I don’t have my certificate from the Department of Lesbian Affairs.  Though, in my defense, there’s a lot of paperwork involved.”