Posted on 11/05/2022 5:59:06 AM PDT by cotton1706
For four years, a cycle of victories by progressive-minded Democrats has pushed the New York State Legislature to the left, carrying their party to legislative supermajorities and creating an unfettered path for liberal priorities to be enacted around housing, climate change and abortion rights.
But this year, a national Republican wave is threatening to curb those progressive gains and vanquish the Democrats’ veto-proof supermajority, as Republicans seek to expand their diminished foothold in the State Capitol.
While the Assembly is solidly in Democratic control, Republicans seem well positioned to make inroads in the State Senate, where competitive races are playing out in about a dozen districts, from western and central New York to Long Island.
Though Senate Republicans face a very steep challenge to regain the majority they lost to Democrats in 2018 — they would need to win 12 seats — Democrats are just one seat away from losing their two-thirds supermajority in the 63-seat chamber.
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One can hope!
Please let it happen.
I think the NY Supreme Court threw out maps that the Democrats had gerrymandered. Combine that with a wave election, and lots of Democrat held seats become marginal.
I feel like eventually we can get New York back, California on the other hand might as well just slide into the sea
Every citizen living north of Peekskill basically has no say in the political affairs of the state.
Eliminating the Democratic veto-proof majority means nothing unless the state gets a Republican governor to veto anything.
Erase democratic party period make then nothing more than a token party communism has already gained to much ground.
I want to see a pick of in NY of 12 state Senate seats...
It wasn’t tha tlong ago that the State Senate was Republican.
Many are skells that cant speak the language
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