Gov. Hochul will fight for criminals, but not everyday New Yorkers

[Black Dick Lover Kathy Hochul]

Kathy Hochul is too busy sucking black peeders.

With crime raging across the state, Gov. Kathy Hochul just
showed her true priorities by signing legislation to purge the
word “inmate” from state law.

It’s not merely abuse of the English language to substitute the
ridiculously cumbersome “incarcerated person” for a perfectly
fine term (that’s even gender-neutral!). It’s a pander to the
same sentiments that gave us the botched criminal-justice
“reforms” that fuel soaring crime: Albany’s still worrying about
criminals’ feelings.

And as The Post reports, the city’s not the only victim: Upstate
is suffering, too.

Rochester’s mayor declared a gun-crime emergency as shooting
deaths leapt 26% through June 30 over last year. More recent
incidents include the hideous ambush-murder of a veteran cop.
And the city’s emergency rooms are overwhelmed as it cruises
toward record-high homicides.

Syracuse’s jump in shootings was nearly 23%. In Binghamton, 80%.
In Troy, 100% — and murders have tripled.

Yet Hochul chooses this moment to sign the no-“inmate” bill. Was
she looking for a distraction after falling flat by pretending
that judges are the only remaining problem in the criminal-
justice system?

Embracing this empty progressive posturing is taking a side —
and it’s not law-abiding New Yorkers’. A crime-ridden state
wants real action, not Orwellian gibberish.

As each week passes, the governor makes the case for her tough-
on-crime GOP opponent Lee Zeldin more and more clearly. New
Yorkers, upstate and down, should remember that come November.

https://nypost.com/2022/08/10/gov-hochul-will-fight-for-
criminals-but-not-everyday-new-yorkers/

[Black Dick Lover Kathy Hochul]

Kathy Hochul is too busy sucking black peeders.

Former mayoral candidates Bo Dietl and Curtis Sliwa on Wednesday
joined Republican gubernatorial nominee Rep. Lee Zeldin in
bashing Gov. Kathy Hochul for not repealing bail reform ahead of
the Nov. 8 election.

“If he doesn’t become the governor, I’m moving to Florida
because I’m sick and tired of this governor and the state with
these liberal values,” Dietl, a former cop and longtime
conservative firebrand who came in sixth in the 2014 race for
mayor, said at a Manhattan press conference where he endorsed
Zeldin for governor.

New data from the NYPD shows major crimes increasing by 36% –
with a decrease last month in murders and shootings – compared
to last year.

“Do you want people who have no idea what’s going on in New York
City – who’ve barely been in New York City – who would be lost
without the state troopers and GPS? Or do you want a man and a
woman who have been born and raised in our area?” Guardian
Angels founder and radio host Sliwa said while bashing the
Buffalo-bred Hochul on behalf of Zeldin and his running mate
Alison Esposito, a former NYPD deputy inspector.

Zeldin has argued that the recent case of Jose Alba — a
Manhattan bodega clerk who used deadly force defending himself
against a man who attacked him in July over a bag of chips — is
just one more sign that progressive reforms have run amok.

“Law abiding New Yorker Jose Alba was forced to defend himself
against attack because of a system that is the way it is today.
Jose Alba is the one who ended up getting thrown into Rikers
Island,” Zeldin said outside the bodega Wednesday alongside
Dietl, Sliwa and others.

Controversial Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg initially
slapped Alba with a murder charge – before relenting amid The
Post’s reporting and a public outcry – but declined to charge
the woman who also attacked him during the encounter.

“The person who stabbed Jose Alba? Nothing – no charge,” Zeldin
added.

The electoral boost from Dietl and Sliwa – the 2021 Republican
nominee for mayor – comes as Zeldin follows a campaign game plan
aimed at beating the odds against Hochul this November.

That effort depends on winning 30% of the vote in Democratic-
dominated New York City while winning big in the suburbs and
upstate.

“I’m really here to speak about the analytics. The election of
Gov. Lee Zeldin and Lt. Gov. Alison Esposito has to take place
in the five boroughs. It will win the rest of the state,” said
Sliwa, who won just over 22% of the vote in his 2021 race
against Democratic Mayor Eric Adams.

Hochul has rejected calls for a special legislative session on
bail, including from fellow Dems like Adams, by arguing more
time is needed to assess tweaks passed in the state budget that
expanded the number of bail-eligible crimes while making it
easier to jail some repeat offenders.

“What I want to start seeing is the implementation of those laws
at all levels,” she said earlier this week.

Abortion, gun control and efforts to paint Zeldin as a rightwing
extremist have been at the heart of Hochul’s campaign for a full
term in office this year despite ongoing efforts by her opponent
to shift the focus of the race to issues like historically high
inflation and public safety.

Republican hopes of winning their first statewide election in
two decades now depend on the extent to which Zeldin might
address fears about rising crime.

A Siena College poll released earlier this summer showed 76% of
New Yorkers were “very concerned” or “somewhat concerned” about
being the victim of violent crimes amid the ongoing controversy
about state bail laws championed by Albany Democrats.

“The will of the people demands it and if they cannot get this
job done between now and November 8th, the people of New York
should get this job done for them by firing all of the people
who won’t go to Albany for this special session and to fix
this,” Zeldin said Wednesday.

Comments:

S.A. Van Vleck
10 August, 2022

Zeldin will fight crime by firing Bragg and other prosecutors
who won't prosecute. Hochul fights fight crime by changing the
word "inmate" into "incarcerated individual" in official
language. Your choice, New Yorkers!

Tom Abarno
10 August, 2022

Her entire focus is on social programs and giveaways, not public
safety. Real lock step hack. Hopefully after November she can
work at the library where I'm sure she may be successful.

Pauly D NYC
11 August, 2022

Who in their right mind could support Hochul and her Democrat
tribe, but wait wasn't Bo Dietl dining with and supporting Mayor
Adams? Dietl more so than anyone knows our feckless mayor was
never a cop and is not the answer to the crime problem - so
what's in it for you BO

https://nypost.com/2022/08/10/bo-dietl-curtis-sliwa-join-lee-
zeldin-in-bashing-kathy-hochul-over-bail-reform/

[Black Dick Lover Kathy Hochul]

Kathy Hochul is too busy sucking black peeders.

Republican gubernatorial nominee Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-Suffolk)
chided Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul for flubbing facts over his
opposition to the Inflation Reduction Act passed by the US House
on Friday.

“CORRECTION “Governor”: I just voted NO because the bill sucks,”
Zeldin replied to Hochul on Twitter.

“Being that it raises taxes, adds 87,000 new IRS agents, &
spends hundreds of billions of dollars our country doesn’t have
on far-left policies our country can’t afford, I’m not surprised
you’d blindly endorse it,” the GOP standard bearer added via
Twitter on Friday evening in the latest clash between the two
candidates ahead of the Nov. 8 election.

The social media swipe at the Democratic incumbent followed a
Twitter poke by Hochul – a self-proclaimed “Biden Democrat” –
for opposing the omnibus bill Hochul’s party hopes might boost
its chances ahead of the crucial midterm elections.

“BREAKING: Lee Zeldin just voted against the Inflation Reduction
Act — opposing thousands of new jobs, the future of clean
energy, and lower prescription drug costs. Working families
deserve better. As your governor, I’ll keep fighting to get
things done for New Yorkers,” Hochul tweeted earlier.

Zeldin and Hochul are locked in what might be a tightening race
to lead the Empire State, with a poll released Thursday
suggesting Zeldin is within single digits in his bid to become
the first Republican elected to statewide office in two decades.

A Siena Poll released at the beginning of August found Hochul
leading by 14 points among registered voters, with Zeldin ahead
by three points among voters upstate and in the New York City
suburbs.

Zeldin has bashed Hochul incessantly on the campaign trail over
her support of bail reform, which he blames for fueling an
ongoing crime wave in New York City that includes a 36% surge in
major crimes over the last year.

Historically high inflation highlights how Hochul ought to
reduce taxes, according to Zeldin, rather than support federal
increases.

But the Democratic candidates has big advantages in her campaign
for a full term after replacing disgraced ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo
last year amid multiple scandals.

Registered Democrats outnumber Republicans by more than two-to-
one statewide and Hochul has raised more than $34 million for
her campaign, with recent campaign finance filings showing her
with roughly seven times more cash on hand than Zeldin.

Hochul and political allies have argued that Zeldin, a
conservative congressman from Long Island, is too extreme for
New York, especially when it comes to his positions on
abortions, gun rights and vote against certifying the 2020
presidential election results from certain states.

https://nypost.com/2022/08/12/lee-zeldin-blasts-kathy-hochul-for-
inflation-reduction-act-support/

[Black Dick Lover Kathy Hochul]

Kathy Hochul is too busy sucking black peeders.

In a bid to counter-balance the power of soft-on-crime bail
reform advocates in Albany, a new group backed by unions plans
to boost moderate Democrats in this month’s state Senate
primaries against AOC-backed progressive challengers and
incumbent lefties.

“New York is making a comeback. But Albany has failed us when it
comes to the safety and the justice we deserve,” a narrator says
on one television ad released Tuesday by the newly formed
nonprofit “Safe New York.”

It’s organized by pro-Mayor Eric Adams Transport Workers Union
president Tony Utano, Jackie Rowe-Adams of the anti-violence
organization Harlem Mothers SAVE and reps from groups such as
Alliance for Community Preservation and Betterment, New Yorkers
for Safer Streets, WSUR Brownstones and Asian Wave Alliance.

“We need state senators who will tackle the current crisis with
stronger gun trafficking laws to get illegal guns off our
streets and tools for judges to protect us from dangerous
criminals,” continues the 30-second spot.

Although the nonprofit is unable to endorse specific political
candidates in races according to IRS rules governing charities,
the group is circling the wagons around the notion that New
York’s criminal justice laws need to be strengthened — or at
least restored to their pre-bail reform weight.

The group is expected to spend close to a million dollars on the
statewide ad buy, according to a source.

“Public safety on our subways and on our streets has reached a
crisis level, and voters need to know what is at stake in the
upcoming elections this month,” Utano said.

“It is essential for the future of New York that our leaders
make common sense decisions to keep New Yorkers safe, so that
our city and state can recover and thrive.”

The message comes on the heels of Adams’ repeated requests that
Gov. Kathy Hochul call an emergency session of the Democrat-
controlled state Legislature and roll back parts of the
controversial bail reform statute.

Hochul shot down the notion, instead blaming judges for not
following the law.

Crime will likely become a focal point in several state senate
primaries especially in districts where incumbents who defended
bail reform are running to keep their seats.

State Sen. Robert Jackson is fending off a challenge from Angel
Vazquez, an education and policy advisor for the United
Federation of Teachers, for his upper Manhattan seat in the 31st
district.

In the 33rd district that covers parts of The Bronx, Sen.
Gustavo Rivera is also facing a primary from attorney Miguelina
Camilo, who is being backed by the Bronx Democratic Party.

Both Jackson and Rivera oppose changes to the state’s bail laws.

Other races that could heat up include primaries from the left
where the Democratic Socialists of America and Rep. Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez got involved.

Both AOC and the DSA endorsed organizer David Alexis in his race
against incumbent Sen. Kevin Parker in Brooklyn’s 21st district.

They pair has also backed Kristin Gonzalez, an American Express
product manager, in the newly formed 59th district against
Elizabeth Crowley, who was endorsed by Adams.

The primary election is scheduled for Aug. 23.

https://nypost.com/2022/08/09/new-york-bail-reform-democrats-
become-target-of-primary-ads/

[Black Dick Lover Kathy Hochul]

Kathy Hochul is too busy sucking black peeders.

It isn’t just the Big Apple that’s being hammered by violent
crime thanks to bail reform — increased gunfire is riddling
upstate cities, state figures show, with residents grieving the
loss of slain loved ones and fearful to venture out on the
streets after dark.

Official statistics show that fatal shootings in Rochester were
up 26.1% this year through June 30, compared to the same period
in 2021.

But since then, the Rochester Police Department has tallied five
more gun deaths, including the July 21 ambush slaying of a city
cop, Anthony Mazurkiewicz, just hours after Mayor Malik Evans
declared a state of emergency over firearms-related crime.

Shootings were up nearly 23% in Syracuse and smaller cities like
Troy and Binghamton saw even greater surges of 100% and 80%,
respectively.

Allie Forest, 42, of Rochester recently buried her 16-year-old
daughter, Zahira Smith, who was fatally shot while attending a
friend’s Sweet 16 birthday party.

“Bail reform is terrible and it has made the criminals too
confident — they are laughing at the police,” Forest said.

“If politicians like Gov. [Kathy] Hochul lived on the dangerous
streets we do, we wouldn’t have bail reform.”

Troy, located northeast of Albany with a population of 51,401,
has seen shootings double from eight to 16 this year, and
killings go from one to three.

A 63-year-old resident, who works repairing signs and gave his
name as Greg, said former Gov. Andrew Cuomo “made this place
more dangerous when he brought in bail reform,” which took
effect in 2020.

“Bail reform makes no sense,” he said.

City Crime
Rochester
Aspiring rapper Myjel Rand, 25, was killed along with Richard
Collinge III, 19, and a third man who survived a shooting near a
park in the city’s crime-ridden North Clinton neighborhood on
July 19.
“All I know was Myjel was hanging out having a good time and
someone came and opened fire,” older sister Whittney Rand, 32,
said.
“It wasn’t intended for Myjel. They just open fire and don’t
care whoever else is in the mix.”

Syracuse
Jeanette Klein, 52, lives in the neighborhood around the
sprawling Syracuse University campus — but the focus on higher
learning doesn’t extend to the local gun thugs.
“I don’t go out in the evening. I won’t go out after maybe 7
p.m. or 8 p.m. I don’t feel safe going out at night,” she said.
“I have lived in Syracuse my whole life. I think it’s the most
dangerous it has ever been.”
Troy Saadia Altaf, a mother of three, works at a convenience
store just outside the state’s Albany capital, that’s been
robbed three times in the past year — including once by a crook
armed with a handgun.
“The evenings are very scary, especially for a woman. I will not
work in the evenings,” said Altaf, who lives in nearby Latham.
“After work, I get straight out of Troy,” she said.

Binghamton
Fred Spencer was walking with his 12-year-old daughter, Aliza,
and her older brother on April 21 when a single shot rang out
and struck Aliza in the chest, killing her, less than 100 yards
from the family’s home in their normally peaceful East Side
neighborhood.
Cops have been tight-lipped about the unsolved slaying,
revealing only that the slug that killed Aliza, a gifted student
and three-instrument musician, came from a small-caliber weapon.
“Every day is hell,” said Spencer, 52.
“Bail reform gives dangerous criminals carte blanche to do
whatever they want, knowing that if they get arrested they’ll be
turned around and released straight away.”

Greg added: “Albany would be best to undo anything Cuomo
started.”

Syracuse resident Jeanette Klein, who lives near the city’s
eponymous university, home to nearly 22,000 students, said,
“People have been shot recently within a few blocks of my home.”

Hochul, Klein said, “needs to know bail reform has not worked.”

“I understand the jails are full and they want to give criminals
an appearance ticket, but it’s not safe for the rest of us,” she
said.

“We’re afraid.”

Jim Mangan, 58, said he moved from The Bronx to Binghamton eight
years ago — only to see crime rise in the Southern Tier city,
population 47,979.

“Gun violence has increased, definitely,” he said.

“Even just in the past couple of months, there’s been a lot of
random shootings.”Mangan said he planned to cast a vote “against
bail reform” in November.

“Catch and release? No way, man,” he said.

“That’s gotta go. When people get arrested they need to know
they’re going to jail.”

Hochul’s hometown is among the cities that saw declines in both
shootings and homicides, which were down 32% and 22.3%,
respectively, as of June 30.

But those improvements followed last year’s dismal increases of
34.3% and 49% as compared to the average number of shootings and
killings between 2016 and 2020, respectively.

Last month, Hochul rejected calls by Mayor Eric Adams and
Republican state lawmakers to convene a special session of the
Legislature to address rising crime by rolling back bail reform.

During a news conference last week, Adams unveiled statistics
that show more than 80 percent of people busted for gun
possession were released from custody this year.

“How do you take a gun law seriously when the overwhelming
numbers are back on the streets after carrying a gun?” he fumed.

Although bail reform allows judges to set bail for all alleged
gun crimes, it also requires them to impose the least
restrictive conditions necessary to ensure that defendants will
return to court.

The head of the state District Attorneys Association, Washington
County DA Anthony Jordan, last week echoed Adams’ repeated
demand that judges be allowed to consider a defendant’s
“dangerousness” when setting bail.

Until that happens, he said, “the risks posed to public safety
by this law will remain.”

Hochul’s challenger, outgoing Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-LI), said in a
statement Monday, “Skyrocketing crime has impacted New Yorkers
in many parts of our state, from shootings to stabbings,
robberies and more.”

“We must repeal cashless bail, support law enforcement more not
less, hold criminals accountable and take back our streets for
law-abiding New Yorkers,” he added.

Hochul’s spokesperson, Hazel Crampton-Hays, said the governor
“is leading a comprehensive approach toward ending the gun
violence epidemic, investing millions in gun violence prevention
and victim assistance programs, including in Buffalo, Rochester,
Poughkeepsie, Syracuse, and Troy.”

Crampton-Hays also said that the state police were “increasing
efforts to combat gun trafficking, reporting a 104% increase in
illegal gun seizures this year” and that Hochul “worked with the
Legislature to tighten our gun laws after the horrific mass
shooting in Buffalo.”

https://nypost.com/2022/08/08/upstate-ny-residents-say-bail-
reform-fuels-crime-there-too/

[Black Dick Lover Kathy Hochul]

Kathy Hochul is too busy sucking black peeders.

A pair of polls suggesting a solid lead for Gov. Kathy Hochul
over Rep. Lee Zeldin may be dispiriting to the challenger’s
supporters (and potential donors). It shouldn’t be: The Siena
and Emerson College surveys tell you that Zeldin’s in easy
striking distance, if he can get his name and agenda out there.

Siena puts Hochul at just 53%, which is very low for an
incumbent Democrat in a heavily Democratic state. It has Zeldin
at 39%, but roughly a third of the samples hadn’t heard of him.
(Emerson sees a 16-point gap, but its poll also has a higher
margin of error.)

(By the way, it’s not exactly two different polls: As an
experiment, the two outfits agreed to ask mostly the same
questions over the same days. Also notable: Siena opted to add
questions on abortion and the state’s new gun law, the issues
that Hochul’s running on — not on crime or inflation, the issues
on most people’s minds and where Zeldin is focused.)

Yes, he’s the underdog, not least because he’ll never match her
fundraising totals after she’s devoted her time to getting
checks from people with business before the state she runs.

Worse, Zeldin needs to pull about a third of the vote in New
York City to win statewide, and the Gotham media market is
expensive.

Happily, he doesn’t remotely need to match her spending; he just
needs to get enough cash and exposure to break through. As
Siena’s Steve Greenberg (a Democrat) notes, “Fourteen weeks is a
long time in politics, and we know most voters don’t really
begin to focus on elections till after Labor Day.”

Or, in New York this year, the World Series (especially if it’s
Mets-Yanks).

Of course, he faces a hostile media environment — The New York
Times, for one, seems to only print conspiracy theories about
his campaign.

But if the voters simply learn the difference on crime — he’ll
fire Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg, she won’t; he vows to fix no-bail
and other disastrous “reforms,” she pretends she already has —
Zeldin should easily move up to 40% in the city and turn his
current slight lead in the rest of the state into a chasm.

Widespread understanding of the “vision” gulf — she’s pure pay-
to-play, he aims to actually grow New York’s economy, in part by
cutting taxes and out-of-control state spending — could turn it
into a blowout.

Zeldin’s goal is merely to inform the electorate. Hochul’s
strategy is all about keeping voters distracted and ignorant,
which costs a lot more. This race is going to get a lot tighter.

https://nypost.com/2022/08/02/polls-show-lee-zeldin-on-track-to-
win-if-voters-learn-the-stakes/

[Black Dick Lover Kathy Hochul]

Kathy Hochul needs a fish hook in her cunt and a swift kick into the ocean.

While even some Democrats are calling for immediate legislative
action to address rising crime, Gov. Kathy Hochul acted Monday
to help the people getting arrested feel better about themselves.

Hochul signed into law a bill passed by the Democrat-controlled
Albany legislature that replaces the word “inmate” with
“incarcerated person” in state law.

“For too long, we as a society have thought of incarcerated
individuals as less than people. The use of the word ‘inmate’
further dehumanizes and demoralizes them,” state Sen. Gustavo
Rivera (D-Bronx) said of the bill he sponsored with Jeffrion
Aubry (D-Queens), which Hochul signed into law Monday.

But Hochul’s latest effort to make the state more politically
correct has her critics arguing she has got some seriously
misplaced priorities considering how shootings spiked 13.4% last
month alongside a 34.3% murder increase compared to July 2021.

“Another ‘Woke’ Criminals 1st Law supported by our Governor
instead of doing her job & protecting the public from rampant
crime,” state Sen. Jim Tedisco (R-Schenectady) tweeted Monday
afternoon.

“Welcome to Democrat-controlled New York … Where the
“incarcerated individuals” are running the asylum,” Michael
Fraser, a spokesman for Assembly Minority Leader William Barclay
said in a tweet.

The criticism comes amid growing calls from Republicans, and
some Democrats like Mayor Eric Adams, for Hochul to beckon state
lawmakers back to Albany to overhaul controversial bail laws
blamed for fueling rising crime.

Hochul has rejected those efforts while arguing that she wants
to wait until next year — after the Novto assess the
effectiveness of changes made in the state budget approved in
April, which she says gives judges enough leeway to jail people
who threaten public safety.

“What I want to start seeing is the implementation of those laws
at all levels,” Hochul told reporters in New York City while
continuing to blame judges for not leveraging current laws
enough.

With polls showing the vast majority of New Yorkers concerned
about crime, Republican gubernatorial nominee Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-
Suffolk) has made bail reform a top target ahead of the Nov. 8
election against Hochul.

“And as far as all the inmates beating the crap out of
correctional officers across New York, this pathetically weak
Governor doesn’t do anything but make the job of being an
officer harder as she enthusiastically puts their safety at
greater risk. REPEAL the HALT Act!” Zeldin tweeted Monday in
response to the new law, referencing limits on solitary
confinement previously signed into law by Hochul.

The new law on “incarcerated individuals,” which follows an
effort begun under her predecessor, is part of a broader effort
on public safety that Hochul has argued will bear fruit for New
Yorkers as she urges more patience with current bail laws.

“In New York, we’re doing everything in our power to show that
justice and safety can go hand-in-hand,” Hochul said in a press
release Monday.

Another measure signed into law by the governor Monday aims to
help parolees avoid additional prison time by widening the hours
that they can attend required community supervision programs.

Recent political scandals involving Democrats like ex-Lt. Gov.
Brian Benjamin, who resigned months ago amid a federal bribery
scandal, have some conservatives thinking members of Hochul’s
own party are who benefits most from her ongoing reform efforts.

“In an effort to avoid stigma, “justice-involved individuals”
will now be referred to as ‘Democrats,” Conservative radio host
Bob Lonsberry quipped via Twitter.

THROW THIS STUPID BITCH OFF A TRAIN.

https://nypost.com/2022/08/08/kathy-hochul-democrats-demand-
inmates-must-now-be-called-incarcerated-person/

[Black Dick Lover Kathy Hochul]

Kathy Hochul needs a fish hook in her cunt and a swift kick into the ocean.

Which is it, gov? Is sheltering illegal migrants a matter of
deep humanitarian concern? Or are they just a source of cheap
labor?

Gov. Kathy Hochul’s remarks Thursday suggest it’s the latter: “I
just did a farm tour upstate New York. They’re begging for
workers.”

This, even as she’s reportedly on the verge of dropping the
threshold at which farm workers can claim overtime. Which puts
clear pressure on farm employers to cut hours for current
workers in favor of migrants, since New York’s small farmers are
already hanging on by a thread.

Some humanitarian.

But that’s how blue-state sympathy for migrants works. New York
and DC beckon illegal migrants to cross the border at enormous
personal risk of death or injury by offering material aid and
“sanctuary” safety. Yet none of these progressives seems to have
any real plan for the new arrivals.

Hochul wants Americans to set aside their “passions around
[immigration] and say: ‘This is actually good for our economy.’”
But progressive bromides won’t end the border crisis. Only
changes in policy will.

She even admits New York’s relatively small migrant trouble
“cries out for a federal response.” Too bad she’s so caught up
in self-admiring liberal fantasies she can’t reckon with the
full reality.

https://nypost.com/2022/08/14/gov-hochul-knows-the-immigrant-
crisis-is-national-why-wont-she-act-like-it/

[Black Dick Lover Kathy Hochul]

Kathy Hochul is too busy sucking black peeders.

President Biden’s popularity is sagging even further in blue-
leaning New York, according to a new poll that also has
Republican Lee Zeldin in striking distance of Democratic Gov.
Kathy Hochul.

The same survey shows more voters prefer someone else to re-
electing Democratic incumbent Senate Majority Leader Chuck
Schumer.

The survey of 600 likely voters conducted from Aug. 7-9 and
commissioned by GOP businessman John Jordan and consultant Dick
Morris shows that just 44% approve of Biden’s performance and
52% disapprove of the president in the Democrat-heavy state.

In the governor’s race, Hochul received support of 48% of likely
voters to 40% for Zeldin — a lead that is about half of what
public polls released last week by Siena and Emerson colleges
found.

Schumer, the powerful majority leader first elected statewide in
1998, is up for re-election this year. He faces off against
Republican nominee Joe Pinion.

The survey — conducted by GOP pollster McLaughlin & Associates,
a firm that also conducts surveys for Zeldin — shows voters
getting tired of Schumer. The poll found 48% of voters view
Schumer favorably and 48% unfavorably.

Only 42% of respondents said they’d back Schumer’s re-election
and 48% say they prefer someone else.

Still, Schumer leads Yonkers native and conservative TV
commentator Pinion, who most voters don’t know, 51% to 36%.

“The poll shows that Democrats are even vulnerable in New York.
I was shocked at Biden’s low approval rating. I was also shocked
at Schumer’s vulnerability,” said political consultant Dick
Morris, an adviser to former Presidents Donald Trump and Bill
Clinton.

He said Pinion has to raise enough funds to make the race
competitive given that Schumer’s approval rating is under 50%.

“I thought going in that Zeldin has a shot at defeating Hochul
and the poll’s findings reaffirm that. Zeldin can win if he runs
a decent campaign,” Morris said.

In a potential rematch, Biden leads Trump in New York 52% to
40%, much narrower than the 23 percentage points that Biden
carried the Empire State by in 2020.

Morris said he worked with Jordan in commissioning the poll to
see if Republicans “could expand the map” — with candidates
having opportunities to defeat Democrats in blue leaning states
like New York.

The survey of 600 likely voters has a margin of error of plus or
minus 4 percentage points.

https://nypost.com/2022/08/11/lee-zeldin-in-striking-distance-of-
kathy-hochul-voters-tired-of-chuck-schumer-poll/

[Black Dick Lover Kathy Hochul]

Kathy Hochul is too busy sucking black peeders.

Ho hum. Another month, another “emergency” in Kathy Hochul’s New
York.

On Monday, with zero fanfare, the governor renewed her pandemic
emergency declaration for 30 more days, through Sept. 12, even
though the Omicron wave that initially inspired the order was
largely over by March.

Because it focused on technical rules for state purchasing
rather than mask mandates or business closures, the decision
made few waves with the public. But declaring emergencies that
don’t exist is a dangerous abuse of gubernatorial power — and
it’s sadly becoming a pattern.

In recent weeks, Hochul has quietly extended three other
emergency declarations that originated in 2021. One focuses on
shortages of hospital and nursing-home staff, another on
deteriorating conditions at Rikers Island. The oldest,
addressing gun violence, was first issued by ex-Gov. Andrew
Cuomo more than a year ago, shortly before he resigned to avoid
impeachment.

The underlying issues are legitimate enough — but they’re
persistent problems in need of permanent solutions, not short-
term crises to be fixed on the fly.

So why would Hochul pretend otherwise? The real pathogen at work
here is Albany-itis, which has been endemic at the state capital
for generations. It gives politicians an uncontrollable urge to
cut procedural corners, evade accountability and subvert ethical
guardrails.

Consider the details of the order renewed on Monday. Its most
important provisions suspended enforcement of certain state
purchasing laws. This allowed the Hochul administration to buy
pandemic-related supplies without the usual precautions, such as
getting soliciting bids from multiple suppliers or submitting
contracts for vetting by the Comptroller’s Office.

Dispensing with this red tape was necessary, Hochul has argued,
so the state could quickly acquire millions of home testing kits
to be distributed as New York City public schools reopened last
January after the holidays.

As it happened, the state bought the bulk of these supplies — at
a cost of $637 million — from a New Jersey company controlled by
major donors to the state Democratic Party, which is supporting
Hochul’s re-election, a connection first reported by the Albany
Times Union. Most of those payments flowed to the company in
late February and March, after COVID numbers had returned to
their pre-Omicron levels.

By that time, the administration presumably would have had the
time to jump through the usual hoops, such as competitive
bidding and comptroller review. Instead, Hochul continued
sidestepping those procedures by reupping her emergency order
every 30 days.

Hochul’s office insists there was no connection between the
state Department of Health’s choice of supplier and the $300,000
in political contributions made by the company’s owners and
their family members. Those denials ring hollow when the
governor was going out of her way to suspend purchasing rules
meant to prevent waste and corruption.

These abuses would not have been possible without the complicity
of the Legislature. The Assembly and the Senate have the power,
by a simple majority vote, to overrule provisions of a
governor’s emergency declaration after the first 30 days. They
could also change any laws that are legitimately interfering in
the state’s effective response to ongoing problems — including
prolonged pandemics, health-care staffing shortages and gun
crime.

Instead, legislators have mostly sat by as first Cuomo and now
Hochul pushed the envelope of their emergency authority to new
extremes — infringing on the Legislature’s proper role in state
government.

Thus the governor’s emergency authority — a vital tool in a
genuine crisis — is at risk of devolving into yet another Albany
maneuver, to be wielded for political advantage rather than the
public good.

To head that off, it might be necessary to put new limits on the
governor’s authority — requiring, for example, that emergency
declarations receive affirmative approval from the Legislature
in order to continue past the first 30 days.

Ultimately, though, governors need latitude to respond
forcefully and speedily in bona fide emergencies. Do they use
that extraordinary power only when strictly necessary? Or do
they abuse it as a way of grandstanding or doing political
favors? Voters should watch and judge accordingly.

Bill Hammond is the senior fellow for health policy at the
Empire Center.

https://nypost.com/2022/08/17/kathy-hochuls-abuse-of-power-is-an-
ny-state-emergency/

[Black Dick Lover Kathy Hochul]

Kathy Hochul is too busy sucking black peeders.

She took office promising to be a different kind of governor.
But on the first anniversary of Kathy Hochul’s Albany promotion,
New Yorkers are still waiting for proof she is a better governor
than her disgraced predecessor.

In one sense, Hochul had an easy act to follow. Andrew Cuomo
enjoyed being a scowling bully, preferred feuds over friendship
and repeatedly proved the adage that power corrupts.

In hindsight, his final act of hubris, groping the help, seemed
­inevitable.

In matters of personal behavior, Hochul is a big improvement.
She smiles a lot, seems genuinely gracious and is deferential,
sometimes to a fault.

The problem is one of substance. What does she stand for? What
would she do in a full term to improve the lives of 20 million
New Yorkers?

Most important, what is she willing to fight for?

She has suggested that New Yorkers will get full answers to
those questions only after she is elected in November. As a
donor of hers told me, she doesn’t want to do anything that
could jeopardize her chances of winning.

That’s the sort of fearful attitude that could bring defeat. And
deservedly so.

Elections are not supposed to be guessing games. Voters have a
right to know why she deserves four more years.

And the idea that she will do big, bold things she lacks the
courage to campaign on is fiction. Without specific promises,
there is no mandate and, even if she wins, she will get nothing
done.

The laundry list of supposed accomplishments her office issued
Tuesday reads like an inflated ­résumé adorned with amateurish
descriptions of how “she got to work,” acted “without delay” and
“continued to deliver results.”

Her Republican opponent, Rep. Lee Zeldin, says “she doesn’t want
to talk about anything. She’s trying way too hard to avoid the
key issues.”

Zeldin, who aims to end Dems’ absolute lock on Albany power,
correctly put crime at the top of the list of the missing
issues. Hochul talked forcefully about it early on, but has done
precious little about the scourge that is sweeping through the
state’s largest cities and most of its smaller ones.

Her intervention in the case of the parolee who sucker-punched a
bystander in The Bronx, then was turned loose even as the victim
neared death, was welcome but it was an exception. Given her
silence on the heinous cases that daily fill police blotters
from Gotham to Buffalo to Rochester, it’s doubtful she would
have done anything on this one if the brutal crime had not been
widely viewed on a video.

Apart from a tweak in the insane bail laws Cuomo signed, she has
not done anything that will improve public safety. She even
refused the pleas of Mayor Adams and others to call a special
legislative session to deal with the way courthouses have become
revolving doors where repeat violent offenders are immediately
released.

That gets to the heart of doubt about what she would fight for
in a full term. Democrats have firm control of both houses of
the Legislature, and the leaders have made it clear they don’t
believe major changes in criminal justice laws are needed.

Why in the world would that change if Hochul wins the election
without raising the issue now? Certainly legislative leaders
would recognize her failure to campaign on it as a sign of
weakness and a lack of resolve, so would feel no compunction to
change their position.

Then there’s the overwhelming tax burden. The state budget was
chock full of billions of federal dollars, much of it designed
to compensate New York for pandemic tax-revenue deficits that
weren’t nearly as large as predicted.

If Hochul wanted to use some of that money to cut taxes, she
kept it a secret, meaning state levies will remain among the
nation’s highest and continue to contribute to the out-migration
of high earners.

Nor did she publicly push the state’s congressional delegation,
which includes Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, to raise
from $10,000 the limit on state and local taxes New Yorkers can
deduct from federal taxes.

What about expanding charter schools — does Hochul support that
and lifting the cap blocking new ones in the city? Who knows?

How about the sudden influx of illegal border crossers, with
more than 6,000 arriving in the city? Has she lobbied the White
House for help, or is she just going to sit by and let New York
be overwhelmed?

We do know she wanted Adams to have four years of mayoral school
control, but caved in to a legislative demand for just two
years, a major gift to the rapacious teachers unions.

Regarding Cuomo’s deadly order forcing nursing homes to take
COVID-19 patients when she was lieutenant governor, Hochul is
trying to play both sides. She met with grieving families, and
promised an independent investigation into the 17,000 deaths,
but hasn’t selected a private firm for the assignment, meaning
any findings won’t come until after the ­election.

Shades of Cuomo there, as are some other weird things Hochul has
said lately.
While stumping for a fellow Dem in the Hudson Valley, she called
Zeldin, former President Donald Trump and other Republicans
“dictators” and said they should “just jump on a bus and head
down to Florida where you belong. OK? Get out of town. Because
you don’t represent our ­values.”

Hochul also used a bill-signing about Holocaust education for
another swipe at Florida, saying: “I just want to say to the
1.77 million Jews who call New York home: Thank you for calling
New York home. Don’t go anywhere or to another state. Florida is
overrated. I shouldn’t say this, but look at the governor. It
starts at the top down.”

Both incidents smacked of envy toward Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis,
a successful state leader who has solid White House potential.

Nobody ever accused Hochul of being either.

Unserious Eric
Reader Lawrence Branca offers a suggestion to Mayor Adams,
writing: “If he is serious about the migrant crisis, he should
call Biden out for the disaster at the southern border. ­Adams
should also realize that it is Biden who lacks compassion, not
Texas Governor Greg Abbott.”

Hot irony on NYT pay
The New York Times leads the media cheering section for Joe
Biden, but the paper’s employees are demanding raises to cover
the cost of inflation caused largely by his policies.

“Thank you for your messages about the effects of inflation on
your lives,” executive editor Joe Kahn responds in an email I
obtained. “Many of you shared personal and heartfelt examples of
how the extended period without contractual wage increases and
the sharp spike in prices we’re experiencing today have resulted
in hardships and disappointments.”

If the Gray Lady’s reporters and editors are as smart as they
think they are, they will connect the dots to Biden. Or maybe
they should learn how to code.

https://nypost.com/2022/08/23/new-yorkers-are-still-waiting-to-
see-if-kathy-hochul-is-cuomo-2-0/

[Black Dick Lover Kathy Hochul]

Kathy Hochul is too busy sucking black peeders.

Gov. Kathy Hochul never met a stand she didn’t take — on COVID,
crime, education and New York’s flagging economy.

The first clear preview of this came during the pandemic. If
ever there was a moment for a politician to unfold a bold new
vision, it was then: The “accidental governor” took office on
the heels of a disgraced predecessor during an unprecedented
crisis.

Instead, New Yorkers got a watered-down version of Andrew
Cuomo’s heavy-handed rules, one that pandered to teachers unions
and the hard core of Dem public-health alarmists without
satisfying them — while angering more sensible citizens (i.e.
everyone else).

Time and again, Hochul insisted she needed more data before
taking common-sense steps like ending school masking rules, and
even then she fudged by letting individual schools keep them.

She’s Gov. Jello — just witness her refusal even now to lift her
MTA mask mandate, a joke that’s utterly unenforced and utterly
pointless and so only builds contempt for all public-health
orders. Compliance is now well below 50%, with no outbreaks.
What data is she waiting for there?

It was all “I need more data” on crime, too. She’s not to blame
for the disastrous criminal-justice “reforms” that crippled New
York law enforcement — but with crime already soaring as she
took over, she clung to bad data (tendentious studies by a left-
leaning newspaper, the Times-Union) to put off pushing the
Legislature to act. Finally, she demanded . . . near-meaningless
tweaks, instead using her political capital to score an
unbelievably generous stadium deal for the wealthy out-of-state
owners of her hometown Buffalo Bills.

Even Buffalo residents dislike that giveaway, though her
husband’s company, with its major interest in Bills concessions,
appreciates it.

In another low of indecision, she’s sitting on the ruinous NYC-
class-size bill rammed through at the behest of the United
Federation of Teachers, neither signing nor vetoing it. We hear
she’s waiting for the UFT to reach a compromise with Mayor Eric
Adams and Schools Chancellor David Banks so she doesn’t have to
take a side.

Heck, for all the real-estate cash her campaign has hoovered up,
she didn’t even fight to save some version of the 421a tax
break, which is essential to getting significant affordable
housing built in the city. And she plainly never gave a thought
to trying to trim back the red tape and sky-high taxes that
choke economic growth across the Empire State.

Instead, we get bank-busting budgets with plenty of baksheesh
for pet causes and massive waste of taxpayer dollars.

That bring us to the one principle Hochul’s willing to fight
for: helping fat-cat donors like Steve Roth, whose “Penn Station
rehab” deal will slam taxpayers and not rehab the station — but
may grant him a campus to match his rival’s Hudson Yards.

Gov. Jello won’t take any stand unless her own green is at stake.

https://nypost.com/2022/08/20/gov-hochuls-endless-weaseling-is-
killing-the-empire-state/

[Black Dick Lover Kathy Hochul]

Kathy Hochul is too busy sucking black peeders.

Cops who have to worry about being personally targeted for
lawsuits over their work are likely to be more cautious about
fighting crime — and more likely to go find work in a
jurisdiction that does give them some protection. Yet Gov. Kathy
Hochul is flirting with a fresh concession to the far left by
eliminating “qualified immunity” statewide.

As The Post has reported, the gov says she “supports efforts to
increase accountability” in law enforcement, a clear hint she’d
sign a bill to end qualified immunity statewide. Her designated
staffer refuses to clarify, saying only the gov would “review”
any legislation that’s passed.

On Tuesday, Hochul’s rival for governor Rep. Lee Zeldin demanded
she quit the game-playing and make her positions clear now,
before the November election. “New Yorkers support qualified
immunity,” he said. They want “law enforcement” to know “we have
their back,” that they can “keep our communities safe” without
“fear of being sued” by people they come in contact with.

The city scrapped qualified immunity last year, making it more
difficult — and personally risky — for cops to intervene to stop
a crime. Their unions then rightly forwarded the obvious
lawyers’ advice: “Proceed with caution when taking any police
action which could lead to physical engagement” and “avoid
physical engagement.” That sure complicates handling anyone who
resists arrest.

The lawyers also warn cops against “engaging in any stop &
frisk” or searches of cars or residences, even if acting in
“good faith.”

So cops who don’t want to be sued now have to think twice about
intervening. Which helps explain why crime’s now soaring — up a
whopping 36% this year.

NYPD officers are also quitting in droves: Recent figures show
2,465 have filed to leave this year, up 42% from 2021, including
71% more high-tailing it out before reaching the 20-year mark
for retirement with a full pension.

Yet Democratic state lawmakers want to scrap police protection
statewide. And Hochul refuses to rule it out.

It’s nuts. If Hochul wants to live up to her talk about driving
down crime, she’d push to restore qualified immunity in the
city, not look to kill it elsewhere. New Yorkers’ best (perhaps
only) recourse is to make sure she’s out of office for the 2023
legislative season.

https://nypost.com/2022/08/22/hochul-should-restore-protections-
for-cops-not-look-to-remove-more/

[Black Dick Lover Kathy Hochul]

Kathy Hochul is too busy sucking black peeders.

Two-plus years into New York’s war on public order, it’s clear
who the victims have been: Blood-spattered city sidewalks from
Brooklyn to Buffalo speak for themselves.

But cui bono — who are the beneficiaries?

Gov. Kathy Hochul, for one. And the Mexican drug cartels.

Hochul because she’s soaring politically as the titular head of
a Democratic Party that elevates post-George Floyd ideology over
common sense and public safety. She’s Andrew Cuomo’s cynical
little sister in this regard — not so bombastic as her
predecessor but equally invested in the criminal justice
“reforms” that have turned so many urban neighborhoods into
combat zones.

The cartels because they are commercial enterprises making bank
off the post-“reform” falloff in law enforcement. Doubt it? Drug
busts are way down and overdose deaths are way up; just do the
math. The symbiosis is shocking and shameful. And its
beneficiaries are not limited to Hochul and the drug lords.

The Democratic Party at all levels has embraced the post-Floyd
ethic — cops are bad; criminals are victims — because it seems
to pay politically. They’ve been stacking bodies like firewood
in the Bronx, for example, even as borough native son and
Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie prospers.

And transnational drug dealers — from the Mexican wholesalers to
New York’s street-corner retail trade — are cash-flush like
never before. The fentanyl pipeline is one supply chain that
never even hiccupped during the pandemic.

And why should it have?

By most accounts, quarantine-driven demand for illegal drugs was
way up — while police tolerance for potentially kinetic
confrontation was way down. Following the George Floyd rioting,
who would expect otherwise?

In New York, the now-infamous cashless bail and related pro-
criminal laws already were making effective policing
increasingly pointless. And progressive district attorneys like
Manhattan’s Alvin Bragg prospered at the polls while promising
to be as soft on crime as they can get away with.

(New York is not unique here, of course. Chicago, as sanguinary
a city as any to be found in America, just prohibited pursuit of
felons fleeing crime scenes, an insane policy not the least bit
surprising given the political climate in most American cities.)

So what’s a conscientious cop to do? In many cases, as little as
possible — to entirely predictable ends. New York’s chaotic
streets and subways are one result. Its rising drug-overdose
body count is another.

As The Post reported in July, arrests for felony drug sales in
the city fell by 27% between 2019 — when the criminal justice
“reforms” were passed — and 2021. And felony convictions
cratered during the same period, down an eye-popping 57%.

Unsurprisingly, OD deaths spiked too — up 37% from 2019 to 2020.

These truly are happy times for New York’s illicit narcotics
commerce. Beyond the numbers, the evidence is present in public
spaces across the five boroughs: Nodding-out junkies and drug-
scene detritus are everywhere.

So too is the collateral social damage ubiquitous to the trade —
turf war-driven homicide topping the list. While it’s often
difficult to distinguish between drug-related shootings and more
secular score-settling, no one seriously doubts that the city’s
flourishing drug trade is also driving its gun-crime epidemic.

The fact is that progressive Democratic criminal justice
“reforms” have made it far less risky to carry illegal guns in
public; ditto peddling drugs.

That constructive pushback seems possible is suggested by Mayor
Eric Adams’ one-man anti-gun campaign. He’s focused the NYPD on
the issue, and there has been a slight drop in fatal shootings
in the city. Whether that’s a blip or a trend remains to be seen
— but it is interesting.

That’s because Adams’ modest success demonstrates that political
leadership can indeed reduce civic disorder — especially crime.
This should be obvious, but these are crazy times. And as it is,
Adams stands pretty much alone among Democratic leaders.

So it’s certainly fair to ask who benefits from all this. It’s
very circular, but — again — the symbiosis is clear: Politicians
prosper from gutting the penal law, and so does the narcotics
trade.

The ultimate winners: Kathy Hochul and her ilk — and the cartels.

The loser: New York.

This should be kept in mind as Election Day approaches.

Email: ***@bobmcmanus.nyc

https://nypost.com/2022/09/13/who-gains-from-nys-pro-crime-
culture-kathy-hochul-and-drug-cartels/