“In ordinary circumstances, politicians and legal scholars could trace a straight line of succession from the governor to the lieutenant governor to the Senate president to the Assembly speaker. But the state has no constitutional contingency plan for the situation it faces now: a vacancy in the lieutenant governor’s office and a dispute over who is the rightful Senate president. And no one seems to know who is next in line.”

Who Would Lead New York if Paterson Left? Who Knows?

What a mess.

(via mattlehrer)

I haven’t been following this at all, except for maybe 99’s occasional posts on this. That being said, the real story is how none of this matters. Life goes on. We go to work. Wake Up. Next.

It’s like the ‘94 budget shutdown at the Federal Level. Who really noticed?

(via josephweisenthal)

It’s not a problem now but it’s pretty absurd that it’s been almost a year and a half and no one can figure out how to legally put in place a new lieutenant governor.

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