Cynthia Nixon returns to Ithaca…

… with Zephyr Teachout and special guest Akeem Browder!

Please join us at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, September 1st, at the Space @ GreenStar. Cynthia will make a special announcement regarding her environmental platform. She will be joined by Zephyr Teachout, candidate for NY AG, and Akeem Browder, the brother of Kaliff Browder, who recently recorded a powerful endorsement video with Cynthia. Several Ithaca leaders will also say a few words, including legislator Shawna Black and activist Sandra Steingraber.

As field organizer for Ithaca, I hope than an insane number of people turn out to see this event first hand. (We will also be livestreaming on NYPAN’s facebook page.) If necessary, we’ll move the whole thing out into the parking lot. (If someone can attend the event with a rusty Ithaca pickup truck with some bales of hay in the back, that would be awesome.  We’ll save you a parking space near the door… and we can be ready to put Cynthia in the back of the truck with a microphone if need be…)

I need to recruit a whole team of people to help Cynthia (and Jumaane and Zephyr) defeat the incumbents and “business as usual” in Albany. The word from the Nixon campaign is that upstate will be the key to victory. Cuomo can be beaten. Zephyr led the way, 4 years ago, with a 33% showing, but she couldn’t break into the NYC media market. In contrast, Cynthia has plenty of media coverage downstate, but upstaters have been a bit reluctant to get out and champion her. If and when they do, we win!

I would like to personally reach out to everyone who is on the fence and say: OK. She is a NYC celebrity. I get it. But she is fearless and she is progressive to the core. Zephyr supports her. She is smart, and she is working very hard to gain in depth knowledge about the issues that are important upstate (in addition to the issues that are important to everyone, like fully-funded schools, medicare for all, free college tuition, etc.) And on Saturday, she will demonstrate some of that intelligence and passion, when she is joined by Sandra Steingraber at the podium.

Please join us, bring your friends and family.

And bring your smart phone, if you have one. Before you come, download the app “outvote”, and connect to the online app “reach” (go to chrome or other browser and enter: app.reach.vote.) You can practice using them and get questions answered, before or after the program. These tools are going to make the difference for our campaigns.

“Reach” requires that someone give you an access code or pre-approve your cell phone number. Reply to this newsletter with your name and cell phone number, and I can activate you right away! Otherwise, you can get a code on Saturday. You will be amazed and inspired, trust me.

Reply to this newsletter if you can volunteer on Saturday, or if you already know that you are ready to sign up for some volunteer shifts between Saturday and election day. On Saturday, we need volunteers to use “reach” to identify voters at the Farmer’s Market — meet at 9 a.m. at the Piggery and we will train, and then join Cynthia at or near the market from 9:30 to 10:30.

Thanks from me, and thanks in advance from our younger generations, who need strong, honest advocates!

Emily Adams  (NYPAN secretary, TCP chair, field organizer for Cynthia and Zephyr)

emily@nypan.org, emilyadams@cynthiafornewyork.com, 607-708-0342