Andrew Cuomo’s office is defending the state’s response to an upstate village’s chemically contaminated water supply after Democratic gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon said his administration “ignored” the problem.
The “Sex and the City” star’s newly launched campaign made its first upstate stop outside Albany Wednesday in rural Hoosick Falls, where the contamination from PFOA was uncovered in 2014.
Nixon called the delay “egregious” and “shocking.” Cuomo’s office responded that the state’s response has been “unprecedented,” with more than $25 million spent so far on a new water treatment system for the village and 900 home filtration systems installed for residents with private wells.
___ 10:52 a.m. New York Democratic gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon has cited the exclusion of a black female legislative leader from the state’s budget negotiations as an example of where the Democratic Party needs to improve when it comes to promoting women leaders.
During the “Sex and the City” star’s first national television interview aired Wednesday on “The Wendy Williams Show,” Nixon called black women the “cornerstone” and “backbone” of the Democratic Party.
But Nixon added that black women will stop showing up for the Democratic Party “if the Democratic Party doesn’t start showing up for them.” Her comment came after she mentioned that Andrea Stewart-Cousins wasn’t included in weeks of closed-door talks that led to last Sunday’s passage of the budget.
Stewart-Cousins leads the state Senate’s mainstream Democrats.
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