Lt. Gov. Antonio Delgado celebrates World Read Aloud Day on Feb. 5 by reading “Above the Rim: How Elgin Baylor Changed Basketball,” to fifth graders at Rensselaer Park Elementary School in Troy. Delgado recently announced he will not seek reelection.

Gov. Kathy Hochul shakes hands with Lt. Gov. Antonio Delgado after addressing 176 new troopers during graduation exercise for the 216th session of the Basic School of the New York State Police Academy at the Empire State Plaza on Feb. 6, in Albany. Delgado recently announced he will not seek reelection, throwing out speculation that he might want to challenge Hochul during the next election.

In New York’s long and storied history, one Schenectady native has been governor. That’s Joseph Yates, who served a two-year term in the 1820s.

But here comes Lt. Gov. Antonio Delgado, who spent his earliest years in Hamilton Hill and graduated from Schenectady’s Bishop Gibbons High School. Delgado has just divorced Kathy Hochul in the most public of ways and, with a newly formed campaign committee, seems intent on challenging the governor in next year’s Democratic primary.

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The moves raise a question: What in the world is he thinking?

I ask that while conceding that Delgado, a Rhodes scholar and Harvard Law graduate, is likely smarter........

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