What happened at the Electoral College vote — including a Delgado snub

And the full list of the 104 bills currently on Hochul's desk.

Good afternoon — it’s Tuesday and National Maple Syrup Day.

In today’s CapCon:

• New York’s most powerful Democrats convened in Albany for the Electoral College vote … but Lt. Gov. Antonio Delgado was given the cold shoulder.

• Gov. Kathy Hochul says the Electoral College should no longer decide the race for president.

• Here’s the full list of the 104 bills Hochul still has on her desk.

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👀 What I noticed at the Electoral College — including Delgado being snubbed

If you’ve ever worked in a toxic workplace, you might have noticed how everyone will ignore someone when that person disagrees with everyone else on something.

That someone today was Lt. Gov. Antonio Delgado. Let me explain.

I was in the back of the state Senate chamber for today’s Electoral College vote, which brought together 28 of the state’s most powerful Democrats, their staff and whoever else was invited. There were a lot of people.

But this was a very different Electoral College than four years ago, when Democrats convened in the state Assembly chamber to certify the state’s vote for President-elect Joseph R. Biden. This year, Democrats had to vote for the losing candidate.

“It is sad and there’s a bit of melancholy in knowing you’re casting a vote that you believed and still believe would have been the better person for president, but will not be,” state Democratic Chair Jay Jacobs said after the vote.

It was a low-energy event, for sure. But that allowed me to focus on two people in particular: Delgado and New York City Mayor Eric Adams.

Adams at the Electoral College Tuesday (Will Waldron/Times Union)

I wanted to ask Adams how he felt about President-elect Donald J. Trump suggesting Monday that he would consider pardoning the mayor on the federal bribery charges detailed in his September indictment.

So, I asked him. He chuckled and walked away. What I really wanted to know was if he would prefer a pardon or to fight the case in court and exonerate himself. I guess we’ll never know.

I wanted to see what role Delgado would play in the proceedings after he, sort of publicly, hinted that he might challenge Gov. Kathy Hochul in a primary in 2026. It turns out Delgado had no role to play at all.

If you’ve never watched one of these, it’s important to note that there are preselected speaking roles given to the electors. A different person makes each motion, which means most electors speak at some point.

Delgado was not one of them. He was ignored to the point that Hochul didn’t even afford him the same courtesy former Gov. Andrew Cuomo gave her four years ago.