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Duplicitous Hochul Strikes Again. Republicans Must Capitalize
March Madness still afflicts the Empire State’s politics, as Kathy Hochul has doubled back to Elise Stefanik’s soon-to-be empty congressional seat in upstate New York. Specifically, she has chosen to “slow-walk” the process of holding a special election to replace Stefanik, ensuring the seat is empty for as long as possible. Voters are sick of Hochul’s crony conduct. If Republicans take steps to inform voters of Hochul’s swampy conduct they can gain momentum and potentially retake the Executive Mansion in 2026.To start, Hochul supported a bill that would have left Stefanik’s seat empty for up to a year once she was confirmed by the Senate. Then, she killed the bill and denied her connection to this undemocratic plot. Now Hochul is again taking steps to deny the residents of New York’s 21st Congressional District their constitutionally mandated representation in Congress by promising to “slow walk” the process to replace her.
Next, she stripped local governments of their ability to regulate local elections by moving elections to even years. While this legislation was found unconstitutional, it’s still being appealed by Democrats. This effort to end local control over elections is an overt attempt at enhancing her party’s electoral prospects down-ballot because they cannot win without the national party platform to drive their voters to the polls. If Hochul respected her constituents, she wouldn’t be trying to nationalize local races.
Third, Hochul signed legislation that stripped trial courts outside of Manhattan, Westchester, Albany, or Erie counties of the ability to hear election law cases. What’s notable is that all four counties are Democratic strongholds and usually only elect Democratic jurists. This law was likely a response to what occurred in 2022 when a trial judge in ruby-red Steuben County found her gerrymandered congressional maps unconstitutional, setting the stage for the Court of Appeals to affirm the ruling. Hochul was clearly unhappy that judges who aren’t beholden to the Democratic establishment were consistently ruling against her party’s interests. Rather than comply with the law going forward, her solution was to ensure that her party’s crony judges were the only judges who would hear challenges to the Albany swamp’s election shenanigans. Hochul’s disdain for average New Yorkers runs so deep that she’d rather limit their ability to gain a legal remedy than adhere to state law.
Duplicitous Hochul Strikes Again. Republicans Must Capitalize | ZeroHedge
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