“Yes, I’m still definitely running for governor,” said Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, “I think folk are just realizing there is an election in three months, there’s not been much talk on the streets.”
Williams is popping up at every New York City presser, rally, or community meeting he can muster the strength for. He’s got a lot on.
Yet Cuomo, who resigned last August in the midst of a sex scandal, is making moves and it would appear, observers say, he plans to run again for governor. A strong supporter of the mic-check-mic-check Occupy Wall Street ‘movement’ and the Black Lives Matter collective, Williams has been a steady presence in the city. Not radical or defiant for some, too much so for others. Whatever the status of his popularity, the Grenadian- Brooklynite, one-time Flatbush-plus city council member, and current public advocate wants to be Gotham’s next governor.
With last week’s surprise resignation of then-Lt. Gov. Benjamin came in the wake of federal charges of using campaign money for personal expenses, Williams pointed out that Benjamin pled not guilty. When he himself ran for lieutenant governor in 2018, he got 400,000 votes downstate. Did he have any thoughts about maybe switching out of the race and going for a technically vacant position?
Regarding the Benjamin dilemma, Williams said, “The governor can appoint temporarily, but they have an issue…It’s hard to get him off the ballot at this point in time, and the state senate said they are not going to take that up, so the governor is in a bit of a bind here, but you know if she wants to appoint Anna-Maria that’s not a bad way to go.
He said in areas like Rochester and Buffalo “where we’re doing some great work and have some good responses.”
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