{"id":185843,"date":"2014-08-05T07:34:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-05T12:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/08\/05\/another-reason-to-vote-against-andrew-cuomo\/"},"modified":"2014-08-05T07:34:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-05T12:34:00","slug":"another-reason-to-vote-against-andrew-cuomo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/08\/05\/another-reason-to-vote-against-andrew-cuomo\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Reason to Vote Against Andrew Cuomo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I have noted before, Zephyr Teachout is challenging Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic Party primary for governor of New York.<\/p>\n<p>What I did not know was that her running mate, Tim Wu, <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2014\/08\/04\/why-the-father-of-net-neutrality-is-crowdfunding-his-political-campaign\/\">aka the father of net neutrality<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Tim Wu, an academic known for his work on net neutrality, is campaigning to become the Democratic nominee for the lieutenant governor of New York.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">He\u2019s an unlikely politician. Cerebral, soft spoken, and willing to speak freely, conversation with Wu is a far cry from the stilted, shrill dialogue that makes up most of our modern political discourse.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">As next month\u2019s primary election approaches, Wu faces a lawsuit aimed at unseating his candidacy, along with the candidacy of his running mate Zephyr Teachout.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Robert Duffy, the current lieutenant governor of the state, is not seeking another term, pitting Wu against a fellow non-incumbent for the nomination. Teachout hopes to become the Democratic nominee for governor.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is all kinds of awesome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I have noted before, Zephyr Teachout is challenging Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic Party primary for governor of New York. What I did not know was that her running mate, Tim Wu, aka the father of net neutrality: Tim Wu, an academic known for his work on net neutrality, is campaigning to become the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1000,997,978,985],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections","category-internet","category-politics","category-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185843"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}