The smoke has cleared. Results are all in. What may not be clear to the public at large is just who supported whom. The findings will almost certainly surprise many readers. So-called, and assumed to be, friends adopted surprising postures.
Reference is to many unions and pro-tenant groups.
We will focus in on Local 1199 and District 37. Readers are admonished from concluding that these are evil organizations, that their organizations of their officials are driven by venal or impure motives. On the contrary, and that is the pity. Goodman had been doing his thing in Albany for three decades plus and did not even have a local constituent office until recently. Goodman, when pressed, will sometimes come out of the closet to support tenants and may, in fact, even introduce or sponsor legislation supporting tenants.