Letitia James Does Not Want New York to Be 'Defined By the Failings of a Few Men.' Now She's Running

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For Governor

When New York Attorney General Letitia James was a little girl growing up in Brooklyn, she noticed that some women on the subway looked different from others. “I would admire women who wore suits, business suits,” she tells me during a 45-minute telephone interview on Oct 26, three days before she announced her bid for New York Governor. “The first woman of color I ever saw wear a business suit was on the subway.”

She finally got her own first business suit in law school, but by then she was onto bigger professional thrills. “It was surreal,” she recalls. “But what was even more surreal was stepping into a court room and defending someone falsely accused of a crime.”

When I asked her why there had never been a Black woman Governor anywhere in the US, she seemed to shrug. “I tend not to focus on race,” she said. Instead, she was interested in “how one uses power.”

When it comes to using power, James has carved out a record of using hers to, as one New York political observer put it, “go after bad guys.” And even on the precipice of a race which could make her the first Black woman governor in American history, she turns the conversation away from her biography, preferring to talk about her track record instead. As New York Attorney General, her office pursued investigations of financial malfeasance at the NRA, the Trump Organization and the miscounting of Covid-19 nursing home deaths. She led a victorious effort to get up to $1.5 billion in restitution from opioid manufacturers to help New Yorkers confront the opioid crisis. And she capped her three-year stint by overseeing the probe of former Governor Andrew Cuomo’s alleged sexual harassment of staff members that led to his resignation on August 10.

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1. It never has been.

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2. I thought she was bringing down Trump?

What up with that?

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3. I want to believe that she would support whomever becomes the Democratic candidate

Both Gov. Hochul and AG James are well-qualified for the job, so it's up to the New York voters to decide.