“Waterloo at Watertown”
Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno gathered his Republican colleagues today for what they are deeming their “Come to Jesus” moment.
From The New York Times:
In his sprawling suite in the Capitol, a humbled Senate majority leader, Joseph L. Bruno, gathered an aging coterie of fellow Senate Republicans on Wednesday morning to commiserate over a fresh defeat and plot a last stand for their beleaguered party.
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On Tuesday, with the backing of the governor’s political operation, Assemblyman Darrel J. Aubertine, a Democrat, won a special Senate election in an overwhelmingly Republican district in the northern part of the state.
The victory meant that a single Senate seat now stands between the Democratic Party and full control of state government. And many on both sides of the aisle were left wondering: If the Republicans could not win in this district, where they have a 78,454 to 46,824 enrollment advantage, could they win anywhere?
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One top official called the election results the Republican “Waterloo at Watertown,â€
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Democrats have not occupied the governor’s office and both chambers of the Legislature since the days of the New Deal. The Republicans captured the Senate in 1939 and have held it for all but one year since. The last time Albany was under one-party control was 1974, when Nelson A. Rockefeller was governor.
I think Governor Spitzer has been underestimated, his political wounds have been overestimated and now he’s showing his resilience. (And how funny is it that the year 1974 is when ABBA released their song “Waterloo”? Ah, the prescience of Swedish rock groups.)
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