Nixon and other progressive statewide candidates pay more than $80,000 for petitioning efforts
The following is an expanded version of the third item from my “Albany Insider” column from Monday’s print editions:
Three statewide candidates, including actress and gubernatorial Democratic primary candidate Cynthia Nixon, paid the progressive Working Families Party a combined $81,500 for their petition efforts to get on the Sept. 13 primary ballot.
While promising a strong “volunteer army”, the Working Families Party, as first reported recently by the Daily News, had also hired people to gather petition signatures to help with the effort.
Campaign filings made public last week show that Nixon paid the Working Families Party $40,500 for the effort while Fordham Law Prof. Zephyr Teachout, one of four Democrats running for attorney general, paid the WFP $37,500.
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