By Kenneth Lovett
ALBANY — National progressives are jumping into the battle to help claim the state Senate for the Democrats in 2018.
New York is considered one of several statehouses nationally that the
left believes can be turned completely Democratic in advance of the next
round of congressional redistricting.
Toward that end, state Senate Deputy Democratic Minority Leader Michael
Gianaris, who heads his conference’s campaign operation, recently met
with former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to talk about the need to
flip New York to total Democratic control, sources say.
Holder is heading up the National Democratic Redistricting Committee
that will focus on trying to help the party win statehouses before the
new congressional lines are drawn in 2021. Democrats in the New York
Assembly easily control the chamber while Republicans in the Senate
maintain a slim majority.
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Source: The New York Daily News (via The Empire Report)
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