After Monday night’s seven-candidate gubernatorial debate, I had the same question as everyone else: Did we really need those other five people?
The real value in the debate turned out to be the two candidates who reminded us that there is another way: Green Partyer Howie Hawkins and Freedom Partyer Charles Barron.
But since they qualified for the ballot, we also had to have the other three minor- party candidates plus Carl Paladino and Andrew Cuomo—even though the Republican and the Democrat didn’t say anything new about slashing and burning New York out of its fiscal dilemma.
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