WNY Gets Albany Leverage as Peoples-Stokes Named Assembly Majority Leader

 

By Tom Precious

ALBANY – A veteran member of the Assembly from Buffalo ascended Monday to one of the top positions in the state Legislature, giving both her and the region increased leverage in Albany at a key moment for upstate.

Assemblywoman Crystal Peoples-Stokes, 66, was named as the next Assembly majority leader, the number two leadership post in the 150-member chamber and one from which she can wield influence over fiscal and policy initiatives.

“It’s daunting in some ways … and it’s exciting at the same time," Peoples-Stokes said in an interview shortly after Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, a Bronx Democrat, selected her as majority leader.

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Source: The Buffalo News (via Empire Report New York)