Via Memeorandum, the New York Times reports:
"The Democrats’ tenuous control of the New York State Senate abruptly
collapsed on Monday, throwing the Legislature into chaos with just two
weeks remaining in its session.
"Two dissident Democrats, who had been secretly strategizing with Republicans for weeks, bucked their party’s leaders and joined with 30 Republican senators to form what they said would be a bipartisan power-sharing deal. But the arrangement effectively re-establishes Republican control.
"The change upends the agenda in Albany, where Democrats had assumed
power in the Senate in January, with 32 seats, after more than 40 years
in the minority. Democrats were pushing bills to give tenants more
rights, strengthen abortion rights and legalize same-sex marriage
this session. And the move underscores the continuing tumult of New
York politics, where there have been three governors in less than three
years and four Senate presidents since last summer."
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