Zack Fink in New York State of Politics writes about Gov. Kathy Hochul's recent failures, and her interview May 1 on NY1. After suburban lawmakers shot down her plan to build 800,000 affordable housing units across the state, she said, "What is your plan? Because I am not done. I am coming back to say if you can do this on your own, let's see the results.... And some communities, 80 percent of communities, had to build 80 units or less. That is one apartment building." Hochul also spoke about her political consultant Adam Sullivan, who resigned Sunday after he a New York Times story included accusations of belittling young female staffers during the campaign last year and Sullivan running things from Colorado. Hochul said, "First of all, he lived in Colorado after he lived in Washington, but he also spent the entire campaign living in New York City, so he wasn't running anything from afar.... Of course we spoke. I was very disappointed about what I read in that article in the New York Times. And we spoke, and we agreed to part ways. And that is exactly what the status is right now.” Her other recent political defeat was having her pick for chief judge, Hector LaSalle, rejected by the state Senate. "I have a brilliant staff," Hochul said. "But we also build alliances with members of the legislature. And I would say... after the situation with the chief judge, and you questioned whether or not we could work together to put together a budget, and I said we would. We did." Read more about this story in New York State of Politics.