I an not a NYer anymore but I would rather have Patterson than Cuomo.
The state has been unmanageable for decades and decades.
The legislature needs to be removed, all of them, and start over.
Sheldon Silver and the downstate cabal are the real problem. They have killed upstate. They have absolutely no idea what things are like outside of their places in Manhattan and Lake George.
Western and Central NY are a fiscal mess. There are many cities like Fulton and Jamestown where 45% of the city residents are collecting public assistance of one sort or another. From Section 8 housing, HEAP assistance for heating, to welfare, food stamps, and WIC.
I went in to a local supermarket near Jamestown, and I was literally the only onw who was paying in cash as opposed an EBT card. I was so disgusted I could barely contain my anger. Here’s this 350lb white chic with her little brown babies buying bottled water and porterhouse steaks with an EBT. Grrrrrr.
I live here, in Buffalo a liberal bastion, and I could not agree more with those sentiments.