New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, a moderate from Buffalo, has taken a positive outlook on the election results. But she acknowledged the state party is not “the powerhouse that it should be” in a heavily blue state.
, who heads the Brooklyn NAACP, or outgoing Rep. Mondaire Jones as the kinds of candidates they’re looking for.
“When you don’t have the authority for certain things, then I don’t feel you should take the responsibility for the outcome when it doesn’t go your way,” he said. “So we’re expecting for him to build a party across the state of New York and in these complicated times, while in his backyard he got completely demolished?” Bronx state Sen. Gustavo Rivera said in an interview. “Just from a straight up tactical perspective, how does that make any damn sense?”
Many Democratic lawmakers attending the party’s annual SOMOS conference in San Juan in the days after the election were non-committal about whether Democratic alignment in the final days of the campaign could easily extend into the new year, and they expressed irritation that the state party’s campaign efforts were scattered enough to require bailing out Hochul’s campaign in the first place.
“I think she’s done an amazing job under very difficult circumstances — difficult to the extent that she just got here and the fact that it is a mammoth government,” Assembly Majority Leader Crystal Peoples-Stokes, a Buffalo Democrat, said during an interview last month. “I think that she got up to speed very quickly.
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