Zephyr Teachout feels 'built' to take on Andrew Cuomo in gubernatorial race

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ANNIE KARNI

It was a secret project by operatives for the state’s Working Families Party.

Over the course of a month last spring, they assembled every day at the party’s office in Brooklyn to give a little-known law school professor named Zephyr Teachout a crash course in how to be a politician.

They showed her flash cards with photos of state legislators whose names she needed to learn. They hashed out what her campaign platform would be. They helped her to write and rehearse a stump speech.

The goal: To build a candidate who could challenge Gov. Cuomo from the left.

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