The New York State Democratic Party

Not a local, so I don't have any particular insight, but it's clear that it's absolutely the worst of organized politics. A giant patronage operation for friends and family, full employment for failsons of the connected, a career club and contracting club for the special lads and lasses. All feeding off the necessary corrupt funding from rich interests to keep the whole thing going.

That is what it is, but the House Minority Leader did not have to step into it, too.

The organized party is not "all elected Democrats" as we are seeing, but you can see where control has been.

Politicians use churches to push themselves but this was so crass and blatant. Hochul barely even talked about MLK before switching to promoting Lasalle nomination and twisting MLK’s words to justify a moderate who literally thought racial bias in jury selection was totally fine pic.twitter.com/OVHM86c27D

— Jeremy Kaplan (@BKSunset) January 16, 2023

Worst of all, not even being any good at winning elections because it doesn't matter all that much.