Change is coming to New York, but not without struggle

The new chairwoman of the ethics committee, Sen. Alessandra Biaggi, expressed how “incredibly excited [I am] to fight for every single thing on this list. One of the things that I would love to see added that I’m going to fight for,” she said, “is making sure that we have a sexual harassment-free Albany.” Biaggi’s labor-backed primary campaign took down the former IDC leader Jeff Klein, a heavily real-estate backed senator who had managed to get his own sexual abuse charges swept under the rug.