The unfiltered campaign of Tim Wu
Conor Skelding
Just before 11 p.m. on a Thursday night, after a full day of campaigning and a few drinks, Tim Wu, a law professor at Columbia, sat on the couch of several former students in Greenwich Village and tried to concentrate on a press release.
Around him were remnants of a fund-raiser-turned-party, where about 40 former students had celebrated his unlikely campaign for lieutenant governor with small contributions and champagne, popped and toasted, “Wu 2014.”
Wu, who announced his candidacy in June, had just won the belated endorsement of a liberal Democratic club in Manhattan, which had taken the unusual step of reversing an endorsement of his opponent, former congresswoman Kathy Hochul.
“There's no better way to watch how things are changing than watching an endorsement change in real time,” Wu wrote in the release, which went out to reporters a few minutes later. “That which seemed done is being undone; the winds of change are gathering and beginning to blow.”
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