New York, NY – Today, Cynthia Nixon and Jumaane Williams released the following statement calling on the Governor and Lt. Governor to take down an offensive, deceptive ad that they began airing over the weekend.

“Andrew Cuomo and Kathy Hochul should be ashamed of this ad and should take it down immediately. It’s incredibly offensive to say that someone is unqualified for public office because their small business shuttered, or because they are going through a foreclosure. We expect this sort of dog-whistling and poor-shaming from Republicans— not Democrats.”

“If anything, we need more elected officials who know what it’s like to struggle, who can empathize with the challenges that New Yorkers are facing every day. That’s why as the daughter of a single mom and the son of immigrants, we are running to take on corporate Democrats like Andrew Cuomo and Kathy Hochul. The Governor and his running mate have always put their Wall Street donors first, and this ad is merely the latest example of just how out of touch they’ve become.”

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