Pretty Vacant: Two Million Voters Have No Voice In Albany

[hrmjustin]

Karen Rouse

Thirteen seats in the New York’s State Legislature are vacant, most of them since January.

That means roughly two million New Yorkers are without a representative in the Senate or in the Assembly, nearly half of them black, Latino or Asian residents.

The reasons vary. Four Assembly members were forced out of office in corruption-related scandals. Four other seats were left empty after the legislators who held them were elected to the City Council. The remaining five were left without a representative when the former legislators who held them went on to new jobs in government or the private or non-profit sectors.

http://www.wnyc.org/story/vacant-seats-leave-nearly-2-million-without-advocate-albany/

[Historic NY]

1. Makes you wonder who runs the circus.

[hrmjustin]

2. These are Democratic districts so I don't know why Cuomo is nit having elections.