At least a small bulwark against a screwing over redistricting in NY.
“Small” is right. In NY the GOP is nearly as corrupt as the rats.
It’s very similar to New Jersey and California where the GOP is little more than a stealth wing of the rat party.
We'll take it any way we can get it, especially in NY State where the GOP did terribly in statewide offices, and it looks like even in a big GOP year, that kind of momentum doesn't really help much in pathologically liberal states like NY.