Robert Duffy on no second term with Cuomo and how upstate has changed

Robert Duffy on no second term with Cuomo and how upstate has changed

Twenty years ago, the only statewide elected official from upstate was Lt. Gov. Mary Donohue, a Rensselaer County Republican not known to be a power player in the Pataki administration. Now, Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Buffalo Democrat, sits atop New York’s political pyramid. Former Lt. Gov. Robert Duffy has had a ringside seat to massive changes in upstate New York, from a new economic renaissance to how Hochul has transformed upstate/downstate relati…