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The current governor is from the Buffalo metro area. Wrong time to make this claim.
by RC_ITR 3y ago
The current governor is from the Buffalo metro area.
Wrong time to make this claim.
- atdrummond 3y agoThe Governor’s city of record is pretty insignificant. The Albany powerbrokers are almost all from NYC and the surrounding communities and the moneyed interests are most certainly from the City. Given that is who she has to play ball with, it makes sense policies would reflect the biases of the city, not the Governor’s home city.
- RC_ITR 3y agoThen that’s just representative democracy at work? If the majority of people in New York are from NYC, then that’s who she must consider. I guess the trade is orchard park gets a new stadium.
- nonethewiser 3y ago_Representative_ democracy is very specifically NOT majority rule.
- RC_ITR 3y ago?? The majority of the people elect the majority of the representatives?
- Spooky23 3y agoYou don’t know anything about NY politics. Thats irrelevant. The previous governor was from NYC and Westchester, and shutdown the primary source of base-load electricity for that region. The plan here is that lots of solar farms will replace actual farms, which is deeply unpopular in rural areas and will kill the tax base, as localities won’t be able to set assessments independently. The other thing is to import more electricity from Hydro Quebec. (Which is a weird environmentalist play) I think heat pumps are great, and invested in one myself. But inflicting needless pain in millions of people is, like I said, bad public policy. And the counter reaction will roll this back and have a worse net impact on the State.
- RC_ITR 3y agoYou’re or supposed to comment like that on here. I’m from rural Upstate NY fwiw. What about you?