Unfortunately the entire state is held hostage by the Leftist lunatics in New York City.
The rest of the state votes reasonably, but are overwhelmed.
Okay, maybe not Buffalo, Rochester and Utica, but you know what I mean.
I hear you. This will affect a family member of mine. I do wish that NYC would get rid of its sanctuary city designation, though. Perhaps this will be the thing to change the minds of people in authority, in similar fashion to Mexico actually being our first “wall.”
My Dad had that same complaint in the 50s through 1966 when we left upstate NY. My very first political memory is Dad and his buddies complaining how NYC was bleeding them dry with taxes.
60 years have gone by and nothing has changed....well, not true. It’s gotten LOTS worse.