For more than three decades, Jerry Nadler has represented Manhattan’s West Side in Congress. Seventeen terms. When he announced his retirement, he didn’t step aside and let voters decide who should come next. He chose for them. He endorsed his former aide and protégé, Micah Lasher, and then told the New York Times he didn’t believe New Yorkers would vote for a conservative.
That’s not a transfer of power. It’s a line of succession.
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