Cynthia Nixon, best known as Miranda Hobbes, will be crusading IRL, Miranda-style, in her campaign to be elected the governor of the state of New York. After months of rumors, the New York–born-and-bred Nixon officially announced her candidacy on Twitter on Monday, in a video that highlighted how long she has spent in the city (and not just to film Sex and the City), and her focus on improving New York’s huge income gap.
“New York is my home,” Nixon says in the spot. “I’ve never lived anywhere else. When I grew up here, it was just my mom and me in a one-bedroom fifth-floor walk-up. New York is where I was raised and where I’m raising my kids. I’m a proud public school graduate and a prouder public school parent. I was given chances I just don’t see for most of New York’s kids today.”
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In voice-over, Nixon positioned herself as an outsider looking to upend politics as usual: “Our leaders are letting us down. We are now the most unequal state in the entire country, with both incredible wealth and extreme poverty. Half the kids in our upstate cities live below the poverty line. How did we let this happen? I love New York. I’ve never wanted to live anywhere else, but something has to change. We want our government to work again, on health care, ending mass incarceration, fixing our broken subway. We are sick of politicians who care more about headlines and power than they do about us. . . . It can’t just be business as usual anymore. If were going to get at the root problem of inequity, then we have to turn the system upside down. We have to go out ourselves and seize it. This is a time to stick our necks out and to remember where we came from. This is a time to be visible; this is a time to fight.”
“I’m Cynthia Nixon, I’m a New Yorker, and together, we can win this fight,” the ad concludes. We’re grateful to have a different kind of real-life development for one of the stars of Sex and the City beyond the never-ending drama over the latest iteration of the SATC movie—and a contest not between the former foursome. Someone should tell Nixon that she already has a campaign slogan.
