The New York State Democratic Party nominated Kathy Hochul for governor Thursday while denying city Public Advocate Jumaane Williams the opportunity to challenge her in a primary.
Hochul, the sitting governor who took the helm last August after ex-three-term Gov. Andrew Cuomo resigned in a sexual harassment scandal, secured about 85 percent of the weighted vote at the party’s convention at the Sheraton hotel.
Another candidate, attorney Paul Nichols, received 2 percent of the vote.
Long Island Rep. Tom Suozzi, realizing he didn’t have support at the committee, didn’t have his name put in for nomination.
Both he and Williams — who has the support of the left-wing Working
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