The council had passed Good Cause Eviction 7-0. Mantello vetoed it anyway, citing concerns about small landlords and calling for a third-party study before any action. Council members weren’t buying the delay. Good Cause was the reason most of them were sitting in those seats. Voters had already cleared out every council member who had voted against it the November before.
Partisan angle: Good Cause Eviction flipped the Troy City Council to a Democratic supermajority. Mantello’s veto was a direct attempt to block the mandate voters had delivered six months earlier.
Sources: CBS6, Spectrum News