Cynthia Nixon will not make the same mistake twice. As the former Sex and the City star arrived for a campaign event in Buffalo, New York this week she was greeted by a phalanx of placard-wielding supporters of her opponent, the incumbent governor of the state, Andrew Cuomo.
“Cynthia go home,” one poster said, which was a bit rough given the almost 400-mile journey she’d just made from her home in New York City. “This is upstate – nice of you to find it,” said a snarky second. Another said: “Next stop Ithica.”
That third placard was an acerbic reference to the notice sent out by a Nixon aide the previous day inviting residents of Ithaca – not Ithica – to join her on a subsequent campaign stop. The spelling mistake was gleefully exploited by a Cuomo spokesperson who quipped that though Miranda, the character she played for six years in the legendary TV show, “never left the island of Manhattan”, you’d think she would “hire better writers than this”.
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