Former Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner launched her bid for governor on a platform of combating corruption at the state Capitol. Now she's unveiling her campaign as the trial of prominent upstate developers and the former president of SUNY Polytechnic is getting underway in New York City -- a pay-to-play scandal Miner says she wants to see end in state government. 

"My path to winning is to say to voters who are dissatisfied with the status quo and people who think corruption, the culture of corruption, is a formidable problem in Albany and the cost that all New Yorkers pay is too high: I'm running on the outside to say we can disrupt this and have real, meaningful change," Miner said.

Miner is a Democrat, but she is running on the Serve America Movement ballot line. An independent bid for governor is not an easy one, and Governor Andrew Cuomo has a wide lead in the polls over both his primary opponent Cynthia Nixon and Republican Marc Molinaro.