The NYS government is among the most corrupt in the nation. Both Assembly and Senate leaders from both parties have gone to jail. Cuomo’s various aids and political acquaintances have gone to jail. Members of his administration have gone to jail.
Upstate has always been the bastard child because NYC and its interests run this state and ALWAYS will. A trip to upstate western NY and you think you are in the Midwest.
Upstate is basically disenfranchised now. Industry has been destroyed. The fracking ban finished it off permanently.
wait til some Cuomo relative buys up a bunch of land/mineral rights etc....then you'll see them endorse it, forgetting about the environment in a hurry...