Barron Says He’s Running to Protest Cuomo
(NYT) — Councilman Charles Barron provided details Monday of his plans to begin aprotest bid for governor, and blasted Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomoand the Democratic Party for putting together an all-white statewide ticket.
Mr. Barron, a black leader with a knack for stoking controversy, said he would begin a petition drive to create a new party, the New York Freedom Democratic Party, as a place for minority voters who had grown disenchanted with the Democratic Party. He said Mr. Cuomo had insulted African-American voters by picking a white man, Mayor Robert J. Duffy of Rochester, as his running mate, knowing that the rest of the party’s ticket would be white.
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