{"id":454523,"date":"2022-05-28T01:53:51","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T22:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/ny-democrats-next-dirty-trick\/"},"modified":"2022-05-28T01:53:51","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T22:53:51","slug":"ny-democrats-next-dirty-trick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/ny-democrats-next-dirty-trick\/","title":{"rendered":"#NY Democrats&#8217; next dirty trick?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a22a892297bc\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a22a892297bc\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/ny-democrats-next-dirty-trick\/#%E2%80%9CNY_Democrats_next_dirty_trick%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;NY Democrats&#8217; next dirty trick?&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CNY_Democrats_next_dirty_trick%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;NY Democrats&#8217; next dirty trick?&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Kudos to Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie for putting a hold on another scheme to use Democrats\u2019 current power in Albany to extend their control of the state permanently.<\/p>\n<p>Dems\u2019 last dirty trick backfired big-time, as their effort to gerrymander Republicans into oblivion in the Legislature and the state\u2019s House delegation ran afoul of the state Constitution and led to court-ordered new maps that are not only fair, but force many incumbent Democrats into competitive races, sometimes against each other.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019d guess that bitterness over that debacle prompted an end-of-session drive to rewrite the rules for local elections (outside the large cities), forcing them to be held in even-numbered years. The obvious goal: to ensure that the electorate leans further left, as more liberals and progressives turn out when national issues are on the line.<\/p>\n<p>That is, the aim was to boost the odds for Democrats in races for county executive, county legislatures and town supervisors etc. <\/p>\n<p>H<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ily, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ZachReports\/status\/1530247365516460038\">The Post\u2019s Zach Williams reports<\/a> that Assemblywoman Amy Paulin, the bill\u2019s sponsor, says Heastie doesn\u2019t favor 11th-hour passage of an idea that comes out of nowhere. <\/p>\n<p>Good: Republicans and the leaders of the New York State Association of Counties <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.syracuse.com\/news\/2022\/05\/county-exec-mcmahon-outraged-at-state-bill-to-control-local-elections-like-his.html\">were howling about such a drastic measure<\/a> getting rammed through without full discussion. The plan was to bypass the Elections Committee and have it voted into passage Tuesday.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"706\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/State_Budget_New_York.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie attempted to gerrymander  Republicans into oblivion in the Legislature and the state's House delegation.\" class=\"wp-image-22446253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/State_Budget_New_York.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/State_Budget_New_York.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/State_Budget_New_York.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/State_Budget_New_York.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie attempted to gerrymander  Republicans into oblivion in the Legislature and the state\u2019s House delegation.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP Photo\/Hans Pennink<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>For the record, Gov. Kathy Hochul wasn\u2019t taking a stand after getting burned for signing on to the gerrymander ploy. \u201cThe Governor will review the legislation if it passes both houses,\u201d read a terse email from her folks when we asked.<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s plainly a bad-government \u201creform,\u201d making it <em>less <\/em>likely that local issues play the determining role in local elections. You\u2019d have more voters who showed up just to vote for president or Congress, then guessed on the rest (if they even made it to the local races shown on the third or fourth page of the ballot).<\/p>\n<p>For all the noise Democrats have made these last two years about \u201csaving democracy,\u201d the ones in New York seem all too eager to undermine it in order to increase their party\u2019s power. <\/p>\n<p>Of course, the story\u2019s not over: Heastie might let the bill move forward when next the Legislature meets. So the best protection for New York\u2019s democracy is to ensure the Democrats lose some of their power when you vote in November.\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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Dems\u2019 last dirty trick backfired big-time, as their effort to gerrymander Republicans into oblivion in the Legislature and the state\u2019s House delegation&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":454524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/Capitol_Watch.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=1024","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[129681,71386,82358,10701,43,70288,98806],"class_list":["post-454523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-5-27-22","tag-albany","tag-carl-heastie","tag-democrats","tag-editorial","tag-elections","tag-kathy-hochul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}