Cynthia Nixon might run for governor of New York!
I take it from the exclamation mark that you are excited about this?
Aren’t you?
I have to admit, I am struggling to engage. Someone I’ve never heard of is doing something on the other side of the Atlantic.
Oh, but you have heard of her. She was Miranda in Sex and the City.
Short ginger Miranda? The kick-ass lawyer and single mother with the sharpest put-downs on the planet? Who, unlike Carrie Bradshaw, Sarah Jessica Parker’s character, did not have a shoe fetish?
The very same. Not that there is anything wrong with having a shoe fetish.
Whatevs. Does Nixon have form when it comes to politics?
Yes. She is an outspoken Democrat, particularly on the issue of public education funding.
You know I said earlier I was struggling to engage? The words “public education funding’’ have totally changed that. Tell me more.
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Appearing on a TV programme earlier this year, Nixon said: “I think that, basically, Governor Cuomo is short-changing the children of New York state.”
Fascinating. Cuomo being the present governor?
Yes.
What does the executive director of the Alliance for Quality Education say about her possible candidacy?
I’m so glad you asked that. He’s called Billy Easton, you haven’t heard of him, either, and he says: “She’s an out-of-the box candidate with progressive credentials who would excite people.”
What do we say?
That Sex and the City was great in the beginning, Nixon was fabulous, turning it into not one but two films was a truly terrible idea, Mr Big was hot, and nothing good ever comes of actors who get involved in politics.
Understood.