Current Events > In New York, Democrats just let Republicans control the state senate

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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/09/nyregion/cuomo-stewart-cousins-new-york-senate-democrats.html

Democrats hold 32 of the 63 seats in the Senate, yet Republicans control the chamber. The mechanics and math of bringing Senate Democrats together are complex: Ms. Stewart-Cousins leads a group of 23 Democrats, while Mr. Klein leads the breakaway group of eight. The 32nd elected Democrat, Simcha Felder of Brooklyn, caucuses with the Republicans but has left the door open to rejoining the Democrats.

As Senator Kevin Parker, a Brooklyn Democrat, put it, “How can you be one of the top Democrats in the country and not have resolved this in your own backyard?”

The governor has built his reputation as a master manager and bipartisan deal maker, and the Republican-led Senate has prevented him from facing the politically precarious choice of vetoing or signing more liberal legislation that would inevitably emerge from a fully Democratic Legislature.

This is on top of districts that purposefully favor Republicans in the first place, by overrepresenting upstate
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but 2018 guys

Antifar posted...

The mechanics and math of bringing Senate Democrats together are complex: Ms. Stewart-Cousins leads a group of 23 Democrats, while Mr. Klein leads the breakaway group of eight.

Biggest internal issue of the Democratic Party. Democrats are a coalition of special interest groups who largely don't like each other.
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Meanwhile Republicans are tripping over each other trying to appease their special interest groups out of greed. Our government is completely bought by corporations and they're constantly fighting for the top spots
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tremain07 posted...

Meanwhile Republicans are tripping over each other trying to appease their special interest groups out of greed. Our government is completely bought by corporations and they're constantly fighting for the top spots

there wouldn't be anything to buy if the government was smaller and wielded less power