re: Reminder: NY State Election Map for 2016

I'm from Buffalo, parents are still there. 3rd poorest city in the country in the same state with the richest. Huge potential geographically for economic growth, but politicians only care about NYC. State laws that should only apply there apply statewide that keep Upstate poor.

Only reason Upstate areas are blue is abundance of blue collar unions, giant local bureaucracies providing the only employment because of decades of NYC democrat policies that affect the entire state and kill growth potential, and large amount of social program barnacles who just exist. NY Teachers Union is huge Democrat arm and members very effective at indoctrinating the youth, but I still don't know why people in Buffalo and Rochester I grew up with keep voting for Democrats who keep them in poverty and only care about NYC. All state money goes to NYC and tax laws, and other laws like gun control legislation, meant for NYC applied Upstate are outrageous and kill any future for it.

I've told my parents, NYC can take care of itself. There needs to be a movement for NYC to become it's own District like DC and free the rest of the state.

The District of NY.