But one of the Democrats is Simcha Felder who caucuses with the Republicans.

Two others, John Sampson and Malcolm Smith, are under indictment. To their credit, the Democrats kicked both of them out of their caucus.

Two other Democrats, Terry Gipson and were elected to upstate seats that weren’t decided until all the absentee and provisional ballots were counted. In one the Conservative Party decided to punish a Republican who voted for same sex marriage and got a liberal Democrat, Terry Gipson, who supported same sex marriage; Gipson won by 1096 votes as the Conservative candidate got 17,300. In the other, Cecilia F. Tkaczyk won by just 18 votes only after months of counting absentee and provisional ballots; the Republican was actually sworn in and served for a few days until it was clear that he had lost.

And there are other opportunistic Democrats who have threatened to switch parties as well.

So the would-be return of Klein and his four comrades might end up being to a minority caucus after all.