She is a long time local politician who rose up in 2011 to win a special election that no one expected democrats to when at the midpoint of barack obama's political fortunes. in 2014 she was picked by cuomo to be his running mate because he needed someone who was popular in western new york, but not someone he viewed as inherently politically threatening to him. now the longest serving lieutenant governor right now in the united states as cuomo's number two focusing on economic development, traveling the state without playing a key role in actually everything cuomo was doing, which is a net pl...