Does being Liberal affect the good of the NY state assembly position?

In the past, lawmakers have been known to usually select a candidate into the state assembly. Many of the previous NY state speakers were selected based on their distance from their normally perceived political caucus as either far Right of far Left. Along with being the first African-American to be appointed as New York State Speaker, statistics show that Carl Heastie is amongst the most liberal lawmakers in the U.S. Professors Boris Shor and Nolan McCarty of Georgetown University and Princeton University, respectively, collected data that measured the state lawmakers in the United States. All 50 speakers' ideological positions are calculated and Heastie falls under the list of the most liberal lawmakers.
With New York Democrats being fairly liberal, this is expected. Heastie falls closer to the far left which makes him more liberal amongst other speakers. Although Shor mentions that being more liberal should have been a deciding factor of not winning the seat, however, the party primaries didn't work that way. Perhaps we will see more significant changes in state policies and newer / more progressive - ala liberal reforms. Other political analysts might argue that liberal or conservative, the New York State legislator might still not be short of political controversy.
Below,  Shor and McCarty provide us with a table measuring state lawmakers in the U.S in correlation to where Heastie stands within the table.




Source Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/07/upshot/ranking-carl-heastie-by-ideological-score.html?ref=topics&abt=0002&abg=1