1. Zephyr Rain Teachout is an American attorney, author, political candidate, and professor of law specializing in democracy and antitrust at Fordham University.
31 Facts About Zephyr Teachout
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In 2016, Zephyr Teachout was a candidate for the United States House of Representatives in New York's 19th congressional district.
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Zephyr Teachout won the Democratic primary before losing to Republican John Faso.
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In 2018, Zephyr Teachout was a candidate for New York State attorney general in the 2018 elections but lost the Democratic nomination to Letitia James.
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Zephyr Teachout's candidacy was endorsed by The New York Times.
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On November 15,2021, Zephyr Teachout again announced her candidacy for the Democratic nomination for New York State attorney general, but suspended her campaign after the incumbent, James, who had been running for governor, instead ran for reelection.
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Zephyr Teachout endorsed James when she announced the suspension of her campaign.
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Zephyr Teachout served as the director of Internet organizing for the 2004 Howard Dean presidential campaign.
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Zephyr Teachout was the first national director of the Sunlight Foundation, which promotes transparency and accountability in government.
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Zephyr Teachout has been a professor at Fordham Law School since 2009.
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Zephyr Teachout was a visiting professor of law at Duke University in 2007 and a lecturer at the University of Vermont.
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Zephyr Teachout is an actor who has performed in many plays at the Unadilla Theatre in Marshfield, Vermont, directed by Bill Blachly, appearing as Katherine in Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost in 1994 and as Imogen in Shakespeare's Cymbeline in 1995.
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Zephyr Teachout played Winnie in Samuel Beckett's Happy Days in 2012 and 2019.
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In 2013, Zephyr Teachout was Lady Utterwood in George Bernard Shaw's Heartbreak House.
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Zephyr Teachout stepped down from this position in December 2015 to run for the US House of Representatives in New York's 19th congressional district.
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Zephyr Teachout volunteered at Occupy Wall Street, where she encouraged the movement to focus on the importance of decentralized power, citing the ideas of James Madison, and worked to educate activists in corporate law and policy.
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In January 2017, Zephyr Teachout joined the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington's lawsuit against President Trump, alleging violations of the Constitution's emoluments clause.
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Zephyr Teachout faced off against incumbent Andrew Cuomo and comedian Randy Credico in the Democratic primary election on September 9,2014.
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Zephyr Teachout first ran for the Working Families Party nomination, but lost to Cuomo.
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Zephyr Teachout then announced that she would run for the Democratic nomination.
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Zephyr Teachout's running mate was Tim Wu, a Columbia University Law School professor who coined the phrase "net neutrality".
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In March 2015, Zephyr Teachout moved from Brooklyn to Dutchess County, New York.
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Zephyr Teachout ran to replace Republican Chris Gibson, who was retiring.
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Zephyr Teachout was endorsed by US Senators Bernie Sanders, Kirsten Gillibrand, and Chuck Schumer, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, the National Education Association, New York State United Teachers, National Nurses United, the Communication Workers of America, EMILY's List, and the Sierra Club.
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Zephyr Teachout served as treasurer for Cynthia Nixon's campaign for governor of New York until May 2018, when she announced she was running for attorney general of New York in the 2018 election.
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Zephyr Teachout had previously announced that if James ran for governor, she would run again for attorney general in the Democratic primary.
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Zephyr Teachout's campaign was supported by Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison and Harvard Law School Professor Lawrence Lessig.
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Zephyr Teachout was among the minority of Democratic congressional candidates who endorsed Bernie Sanders during the 2016 Democratic presidential primaries.
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Zephyr Teachout subsequently endorsed her for attorney general of New York in 2018, and Teachout endorsed him in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary.
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Zephyr Teachout used footage of her receiving an ultrasound in a campaign advertisement.
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In 2020, Zephyr Teachout enrolled in the Master of Divinity program at Union Theological Seminary.