Brian Benjamin is sworn in as New York lieutenant governor
New York Lt. Gov. Brian Benjamin thanked Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul for choosing him as he was sworn in Thursday to join her 2-week-old administration.
“You asking me to join the administration is making it abundantly clear that you want upstate and downstate, every ethnicity, every culture to feel included,” Brian, formerly a state senator from Harlem, said after taking the oath of office at Hochul’s New York City office.
Hochul, the state’s former lieutenant governor, took over as governor on Aug, 24 following Andrew Cuomo’s resignation over sexual harassment allegations that he has denied.