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Thank goodness. What was she thinking with that nomination?
Some of you may remember about a month ago some articles floating around about Hochul nominating a very strangely conservative judge to position of chief judge.
Turns out, the NY senate thought similarly. Let’s see if they stick to that >

I wonder what kind of phone calls Hakeem Jeffries is making about this right now >

Hochul has threatened to sue fellow Dems so that LeSalle gets a vote on the full floor. Impeachable offense imo >

I just do not get the NY Democratic Party. Like, at all. Is it just another example of “when shit gets too big it gets evil”? >

In new York and also California,  the republican brand is incredibly unpopular.  But conservatives still want power,  so what you end up with is a bunch of people who would be republican in any other state running as democrats, and basically lying about what they actually believe. Donald Trump for example was a democrat who donated to the Clintons when he lived in New York. Its not because he wanted people to have health care or anything like that,  its because he wanted political power. 
Curiously, there's no symmetry to this phenomenon.  You don't get liberal democrats in deep red states like South Carolina running as Republicans. I think that's just because conservatives are uniquely craven and dishonest. >

It’s also because these states have huge cities with huge economies and lots of executives and the like, who are all super buddy-buddy with the state to get as many kickbacks as they can, so we end up with a lot of corporatists. Corporatists will embrace heavily right wing politics as long as they get tax cuts.