Primary foe gives liberal rebuke to NY governor
DAVID KLEPPER
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — If you didn't know better, you might think Gov. Andrew Cuomo is one of the many New Yorkers who doesn't know he faces an opponent named Zephyr Teachout in next month's Democratic primary.
Cuomo has no plans to debate Teachout. He hasn't even publicly mentioned the liberal law professor from Fordham University by name. But to a governor who had hoped to win a second term by huge margins, Teachout's quixotic run in the Sept. 9 primary is a nuisance.
Teachout has long accused Cuomo of being too wedded to big-business interests and not doing enough to push liberal causes, and now she's seizing on questions he meddled with an anti-corruption commission. A strong showing by Teachout could be seen as a rebuke of the governor.
"He doesn't want you to have a choice, but it's not up to him," Teachout said. "He has millions of dollars from corporate donors. But I have grassroots power. We're using it to put the politics back in politics."
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