BUFFALO, N.Y. —

A New York lawmaker has introduced a referendum that would divide the state of New York into two.

Assemblyman Steve Hawley, who represents parts of Genesee, Orleans, and Monroe counties in the western part of the state, wants to divide New York in two.

“It has become abundantly clear in recent years that the New York City voting bloc has forgotten upstate and is imposing their radical left-wing agenda on all of us, whether we like it or not,” Hawley said in a letter to Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie on January 29th .

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