The New York Times:
According to unofficial results, Democrats captured 32 out of the 62 seats in the Senate. The shift marks the end of an era for New York Republicans, whose control of the Senate had come to depend on a bloc of senators, some in their 70s and 80s, who had put off retirement to help preserve the party’s majority.
On Long Island, Senator Caesar Trunzo, 82, who has held office since Richard Nixon was president, lost by 17 percentage points to a Democrat, Brian X. Foley, the son of a candidate whom Mr. Trunzo beat in the early 1980s. [...]
One of Mr. Trunzo’s colleagues, Senator Serphin R. Maltese of Queens, 75, conceded defeat to Joseph P. Addabbo Jr., 44, a Democratic city councilman, in one of the most expensive and contentious state legislative races this year.
That's it: we have the majority. Now we can get to work changing this state: enact the Brennan Center Reforms, enact meaningful tax relief, bring transparency to public authorities, and finally, after forty years of obstructionism, move forward as one people.
Of course, there's always a fly in the ointment. That fly is usually one Ruben Diaz, the Bronx Drama Queen, who is, as he ever does, threatening to bolt the caucus in what amounts to a bid for attention.
I wouldn't be all that worried about that possibility. Diaz and his four companions all represent safe Democratic districts, and can be primaried. Which, my guess would be, if they're disloyal, they will be.
