Readers accuse Gov. Kathy Hochul of solely serving to herself and never fellow New Yorkers.
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The Challenge: Gov. Hochul managed to get herself an almost $1 billion slush fund on this 12 months’s state price range.
Gov. Hochul supposedly has the appropriate to disburse as much as $920 million of taxpayer funds to principally whomever she desires. That is completely outrageous (“Kat purchase me gov,” Oct. 15).
She has failed to guard the general public from rising crime, taxpayers are already overtaxed in comparison with different states and the state appears to be uncontrolled with just a few choose politicians and their buddies benefitting.
She appears to have failed in every thing she has executed, as nobody I've spoken to can recall her doing something of substance for the conventional, on a regular basis taxpayers.
She has allotted virtually $1 billion in taxpayer funds to construct a soccer stadium close to Buffalo, simply because her husband works for one of many corporations concerned.
Who's searching for the advantage of the taxpayer? At current, it appears nobody in Albany has any curiosity.
Anybody who endorses her for election should be thought-about a complete fool, and part of the issue.
Richard Graves
Valley Stream
Gov. Hochul has executed nothing good for New York residents, aside from herself and people who contribute to her marketing campaign. She was not voted into her workplace and he or she permits the state to deteriorate every day.
She refuses to face Lee Zeldin for a number of debates to tell us who she is and what her plan is to rectify the horrible scenario we dwell with day by day.
New York residents should get up and vote her out of workplace. It was dangerous sufficient to dwell beneath the route of the worst mayor ever. We actually shouldn’t should dwell with the worst governor as properly.
Robert Leavy
Center Island
Hochul has almost $1 billion to attempt to purchase votes. That cash belongs to the taxpayers, not the Legislature or the governor. In the event that they really feel charitable, allow them to give away their very own cash. They only received some good raises not too way back.
This state has tons of issues that may be alleviated with that type of cash.
How about nixing congestion pricing? Nobody I do know drives into Manhattan for a tour or take a look at fall foliage. They take that drive provided that they should. That is simply straight-out stealing.
Joseph Susol
Ridgewood
One has to surprise how Gov. Hochul has been capable of increase greater than $50 million. It could possibly’t be due to her brief stint as governor, since her file thus far is abysmal, nor can or not it's due to her resume, which is at finest mediocre.
A fast take a look at her contributors and the reply turns into apparent: A lot of her main donors have gained big contracts and favors from the state — from overpaying for a COVID contract to granting big concessions to real-estate builders in Manhattan to 1 controversial mission to assist fund a stadium in Buffalo, which her husband stands to profit from.
So why then is she nonetheless main within the polls? Zeldin has not offered himself to those fats cats and has suffered financially due to his integrity. Are our fellow New Yorkers that gullible — or don't sufficient learn The Publish?
Seymour Srulowitz
Englewood, NJ
The unelected governor continues to purchase her votes. After The Publish uncovered her slush fund, she nonetheless refuses to reply by justifying her actions. And now she’s sitting on laws that truly limits how she will leverage her funds.
Why on the earth would she signal a invoice that hurts her likelihood of being elected governor?
She’s blatantly corrupt, and there’s not one Democrat official elevating an eyebrow at this wrongdoing. I’m voting for Zeldin.
Vincent Conti
Staten Island
Ought to we solely think about the place the large cash is spent, or ought to we diligently work to shut loopholes that enable the ability brokers behind the scenes to donate seemingly limitless dollars to whomever they select?
Hopefully, there are sufficient sincere lawmakers motivated to weed out the roots of the dandelions, not simply snip the stems.
Carl Rosenberg
Nice Neck
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