Bill gives each county a NY senator

[Madmallard]

A pair of Upstate New York lawmakers say they have come up with a better way to boost the region’s interests without splitting off into a separate state.

A bill introduced Wednesday in Albany would shift the balance of power between Upstate and Downstate interests by allowing each of New York’s 62 counties -- no matter how small -- to be represented by its own state senator.

New York apportions its Senate and Assembly districts based on population, giving New York City and downstate interests a built-in advantage over Upstate New York in Albany.

When Democrats gained majority control of the 63-seat New York Senate in November, only three members of the party represented Upstate New York. The other 24 senators north of Westchester County are Republicans.

State Sen. Joe Griffo, R-Rome and Assemblyman Mark Walczyk, R-Watertown, said their legislation would amend the New York Constitution to make sure power is shared along geographic lines.

How to boost Upstate NY political clout? Bill gives each county a NY senator

 

[Criticalt]

The powers that be will never allow this to happen.

 

[Nevar]

Hey don't forget Nassau and Suffolk voted For Trump

 

[Blimey]

They might as well batch this up with a bill ensuring constitutional carry.

 

[Karpteach]

Never going to happen. The LIBERALS will never relinquish power. Ever!

 

[Jmac00]

it's either this, or we try and spit the state. I think there is a growing movement to split from the shithole and the last thing those power hungry dipshits in NYC want is a divided state.

the next few years should prove to be interesting

 

[Jaywmustang]

I don’t think this or splitting the state will work. We will have to forcefully take upstate away from nyc and Albany.

 

[Steal2B]

Hey don't forget Nassau and Suffolk voted For Trump

For what it's worth, Clinton / Kaine won Nassau County by about 40,000 votes. Trump / Pence won Suffolk County by about 45,000 votes.

 

[ArmedCorgi]

Why the hell not? Give it a shot. The dems will just step up their busing people in to vote game.

 

[Steal2B]

Why the hell not? Give it a shot. The dems will just step up their busing people in to vote game.

They are already pretty effective at it, have arguably flipped red NY Senate and Congressional seats blue in practice, and the NY courts have enabled their bussing, absentee, and campus "vote where your vote matters most" voting schemes.

 

[Mr. terzmo]

Decent idea but you'd need a $hitload of one party to over ride the veto's the furher would send back. As the federal gov't...you can have a majority in the House or Senate and still get nothing done.

Would not affect the NY $hitty Dems and the furher

 

[togmaster]

Pipe dream but I wish it would happen.

 

[Camaro45th]

I started a petition that got 7 signatures for have a separate governor for the rest of the state and the same moron for the shity.

7 signatures.

 

[masterswimmer]

This proposal is sheer genius. Absolutely should be celebrated that the repubs waited until they had no representation in Albany to propose this legislation. When the Assembly and Senate were split it might have made sense, now that they're both dumb, not an ice cubes chance in hell.

 

[Burzum]

It cannot happen under the series of US Supreme Court rulings beginning with Baker v. Carr.

Despite this Senate plan being logical, it will be struck down as violating "one person, one vote" a bleeding heart activist mantra that began the destruction of our country.

Consider when Colorado voters tried a plan similar to this idea, the activist US Supreme Court struck it down.

Any hope of wresting the political monopoly from the Democrats in NY is DONE, as in NO HOPE, as in this state is a TOTAL lost cause.

 

[Shadow2]

State needs to split, and i would hope each town gets to vote what state they want to be in .. New Amsterdam or New York ... or would it be the states of New York North and NYSouth. At this point even with all the taxes revenue NYC is the drag on the rest of the state not the other way around.

 

[Saltwater60]

it's either this, or we try and spit the state. I think there is a growing movement to split from the shithole and the last thing those power hungry dipshits in NYC want is a divided state.

the next few years should prove to be interesting

I agree and I’d love to see it happen. Liberals want PR and DC to become states so whey not make NYS into 2 states. A judge ruled the California states split that was supposed to be in the ballot unconstitutional so I’d assume the same would happen here.