Cynthia Nixon and Andrew Gillum ROCK. We need more like them.

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83. +1. They're very dissimilar and imagining otherwise

is an insult to him. Besides judgement and competence, Gillum is a Democrat of substance and experience who has always harnessed establishment power to achieve his goals. Gillum ran to win.

Nixon might be a fine citizen who identifies as a democratic socialist, but she's a joke candidate, with no record of achievement or experience. She has no expectation of winning, but the PR is keeping her name and face in the public eye.

On the campaign trail, Gillum framed his mayoral term as a preview of what he’d do as governor. As mayor, he spent more than two years in legal battles with pro-gun groups, which sued Tallahassee to rescind local laws banning guns in city parks. (Gillum prevailed.) He successfully pushed to “ban the box” in Tallahassee—removing criminal records from consideration for job applicants—and worked to increase communication between police and inner-city communities. Gillum puts himself in the progressive (rather than centrist) Democratic tradition; while he was supported by Democratic Socialists of America members, he does not identify as a socialist.

https://www.citylab.com/life/2018/08/tallahassee-mayor-andrew-gillum-could-become-floridas-next-governor/568876/