The State’s appeal to the state against the debated disregard of the Democrats for the state constitution and the will of the voters was a victory for fair play. Blame Governor Kathy Hochul and the Albany Democrats for trying to play power – and for the resulting chaos.
With a special master drafting new districts for the House and Senate, the courts moved those mayors from June to August 23; The legislature may move the remaining primary elections at that time to avoid holding two separate primary elections and because state-level candidates may have to redo the petition process because their old petitions may not stand up under the new maps.
Ironically, that would be a boon to Hochul, as he will probably have a chance to replace him now. Brian Benjamin in the primary vote.
Commenting on the consolidation of the election, Hochul declined: “It’s time to look at options [and] find out what’s best for voters.”
Now he wants “what’s best for voters”? It was time to prioritize her before she signed the gerrymander repressing voters.
Moving the date of the mayors could benefit Hochul, allowing him to remove former New York lieutenant governor Brian Benjamin from the ballot. Alec Tabak
As the courts have decided, it is clear that New York Democrats have drawn hyper-partisan maps with one eye to help the national party keep its majority in the House and the other to reduce Republicans to a totally powerless minority in the state Senate. Both Hochul and the Legislature completely ignored the requirement for voters to redistribute the constituency to be a truly bipartisan process.
Hell, when asked if he planned to use his power to redistribute the areas to boost Dems House’s hopes, Hochul replied, “Yes.” And when she signed Hochulmander into law, she told The New York Times that she was behaving like a “loyal Biden Democrat.”
As her Democratic challenger, Rep. Tom Suozzi, posted on Twitter after the courts dropped the power game: “Another failure for the dysfunctional New York government and Kathy Hochul.”
When Hoch approved the new maps, she told the New York Times that he was a “Democrat loyal to Biden.”
Both for a governor who has taken office and vowed to change the culture of Albany. With her bad choice Benjamin, her special interest fundraising obsession, her nearly a billion gift to the (out-of-state) owners of the football team in her hometown, the ballooning of the state budget, her failure to gaining major remedies in the insane New “Reforms” of criminal justice in York and now the Hochulmander disaster, she turned out to be as much a creature of that corrupt culture as her predecessor, Andrew Cuomo.