With over 70% of Bronx voters saying they’d like to high-tail it out of New York entirely, vs. “just” 40% of voters statewide, we have to wonder about the county’s top powerbroker, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie.

It was no cheap survey: Unite NY is a nonpartisan group focusing on voter issues, not candidates.

And it found that a broken government was a core voter complaint.

Heastie is a prime force behind laws that many see as reason to flee the Empire State, including Raise the Age and the no-bail law.

Not a day seems to go by when Bronx teens aren’t gunned down by other teens, while those “reforms” remain un-fixed.

Per NYPD data, 58 NYC kids under 18 were shot during the first six months of 2023.

Last year, one in 10 shooting victims was under 18, as were the shooters.

Just last month, Heastie’s fellow Bronx Democrat, Assemblyman Jeff Dinowitz admitted that progressives dropped the ball on shoplifting by failing to create tougher penalties during this year’s legislative session.

The statewide housing crisis remains unaddressed because the speaker wants prevailing wage guarantees for his labor buddies.

Not only has he blocked Gov. Kathy Hochul’s housing plan to build 800,000 across New York over 10 years, but he has not offered an alternative.

Since the end of the 421-a tax credit program, new NYC residential-building applications have plummeted.

The city and state and are in the middle of a migrant crisis; Albany is staring at a $36 billion budget hole over the next four years as the economy weakens, tax revenue falls, and spending spirals.

If enough Bronx residents start connecting the dots between the people they vote for and the forces making them want to escape from New York, Heastie could find himself seeking opportunities in the private sector.