A picture Kathy Hochul posted to Facebook back in February shows the New York governor in a Buffalo Bills cap, shoulder-to-shoulder with a Patriots hat-wearing Gov. Maura Healey.
“Rivals on the field, partners in fighting for your family,” Hochul wrote in a birthday message to her Massachusetts counterpart.
Sports allegiances aside, the two Democrats are often aligned, whether it’s backing offshore wind or, in 2023, prodding the Biden administration to speed up the work authorization process during a migrant crisis. A couple weeks after Hochul’s birthday greeting, Healey penned her own social media post thanking Hochul for sending gear to help with blizzard cleanup: “When winter hits hard, New York and Massachusetts are on the same team. Game Day? That’s a different story.”…