GOP, 2 Dems flip power balance in NY senate

Newsday: “Republicans and two dissident Democrats appeared to take control of New York’s Senate on Monday after the two New York City renegades voted with the GOP to throw the fledgling Democratic majority out of power in a parliamentary coup . . . The coup throws into doubt the movement to legalize same-sex marriage, one of the major policy issues still in the balance for the last two weeks of the regular session.”