Kelly Wins Senate Minority Post.

State Senator Kevin Kelly has been elected leader of the dozen members of the Senate Republican caucus. Kelly beat back a challenge by Canton Republican Kevin Witkos in what had become an intense, personal fight in among the Republican survivors of another disappointing year.

Kelly will need to make swift and extensive changes in the upper reaches of the Senate Republicans’ management team if they party is to have any chance at increasing its numbers in 2022–and making itself felt in the Senate before that.