Zephyr Teachout declares candidacy for attorney general

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Perennial progressive candidate and Fordham law professor Zephyr Teachout has formally announced that she will run for state attorney general in the 2022 election. Teachout, who got her degrees at Yale and Duke universities and grew up in Vermont, is better known to New Yorkers for her campaigns for political office. Teachout primaried then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo in 2014 as a progressive Democratic candidate, getting 36% of the vote. She also unsuccessfully ran for Congress, and in the 2018 primary for attorney general, where she lost to Tish James. James is now running for governor, which leaves the attorney general’s seat open. Teachout said if she wins the post, her top priority would be fighting corruption. “I will go after politicians who lie and who think they are above the law,” Teachout said. “You know I will not stand for it.” She said she also wants to take on big corporations that abuse their authority, including the pharmaceutical industry and big tech, as well as polluters. She