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ALBANY CityAndStateNY.com
June 1, 2020
POWER
100
THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC has shaken up the power structure in Albany. For some New York politicians, their influence has grown dramatically – especially for Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the commissioners, advisers and allies he has entrusted to shape the response to the deadly public health emergency and the alarming economic fallout. But other perennial power players’ abilities have been diminished – perhaps most notably among members of the state Legislature, who have
ceded significant powers to the governor. The 2020 Albany Power 100 details these ebbs and flows in political influence, with a newly reordered ranking that reflects the ways the crisis has reshaped responsibility in the state capital. And with so many Albany operatives and insiders retiring or resigning from their posts, fully one-quarter of the list is new this year. Read on to see where the new faces and the mainstays are ranked – and why they made the cut.
