The GOP has held several NYC seats and almost all of them on LI I think.
The loss of many of those resulted in rats taking over the chamber. A few cycles ago they had a large majority.
In the Assembly outside of Staten Island I don’t think there have been any Republicans recently though.
Republicans have been able to draw the Senate lines but still those city seats the GOP have held should lean rat. I guess it was just the popularity of incumbents that enabled them to hold on.
There are now only 3 GOP Senators in the city. One in Queens (almost lost), one in Brooklyn (a gain in 2002) and one in SI.
A second SI seat has long been rat held.
It’s hilarious how the media is screaming COUP COUP, especially the NY Daily News (it seems they are worse than the Times!? Who knew). Contrast with the media response to the situation in Tennessee which castigated Republicans as crybabies.
I hope NY Republican are able to gain back some seats to really take back control. One upstate seat was lost for the first time in over a century in 2006.
Skelos was my state Senator when I was a child. He is pro-life, OK on taxes (without ever proposing creative alternatives to NY’s confiscatory income tax), but is a whore to the teacher’s and public employee unions, and is not exactly a friend to gun owners (Lawn Guyland in general being very anti-gun).