Former Vermonter Zephyr Teachout, who helped propel Howard Dean’s 2004 presidential campaign through social media, was — at least briefly — a candidate for governor of New York.
That was until the Working Families Party decided Saturday to nominate incumbent Democrat Andrew Cuomo instead by 59 percent of the vote.
According to the Wall Street Journal, the decision came after a divisive nearly three-hour debate in which Cuomo, speaking via video, was booed but pledged to regain Democratic control of the Senate.
The Wall Street Journal said party activists had in recent weeks been touting Teachout, a Fordham University law professor, as a possible candidate, but that powerful labor unions that serve as the source of much of the party’s financial backing threatened to withdraw from the party if it didn’t endorse Cuomo.
But wait. The New York Daily News quoted Teachout as saying she might run in the Democratic primary to challenge Cuomo. “I would love to seek the Democratic Party nomination and I will seriously consider whether I have the resources to be able to do that,” Teachout told the Daily News.
