Former Vermonter Zephyr Teachout appears poised to run for governor in New York after all.
BuzzFeed reported Friday: “Teachout, a Fordham law professor who also worked on Howard Dean’s failed presidential bid, will run alongside Tim Wu, a Columbia law professor known for his advocacy of net neutrality, as her lieutenant governor, they said in the joint interview.”
Teachout surfaced weeks ago as a last-minute candidate in the Working Families Party, which ended up endorsing incumbent Democrat Andrew Cuomo.
BuzzFeed reported: “Teachout and Wu said they will to position themselves as the anti-Cuomo’s, touting their progressive bonafides while highlighting Cuomo’s right-leaning tendencies, such as cooperating with a Republican-led state Senate and supporting tax breaks for the rich.”
