Gov. Kathy Hochul would not have any solutions to the various issues the state is dealing with, says Democratic NYC Councilman Robert Holden.
Daniel William McKnight
In the event you’re courageous sufficient to trip the subway, you may need seen the recruiting advert for Norfolk, Va., cops. Even a small metropolis like Norfolk is assured they'll entice NYPD officers to go away the town.
You'll suppose the governor of the Empire State could be insulted. However when requested through the debate why New York leads the nation in residents fleeing, she refused to reply. When Gov. Hochul does reply a query she solely screams “Abortion” and “Trump,” within the hope that magical forces will rescue her marketing campaign.
I've been a Democrat my entire life, however this election I’m voting Lee Zeldin for governor. Our high quality of life has considerably deteriorated beneath Hochul. And not using a change this election, we’re going to get extra of the identical and our issues will spiral past anybody’s management.
For many years, I voted for Democrats as a result of they have been the very best get together for working-class New Yorkers. As a union member, I believed within the Democratic Social gathering’s imaginative and prescient that working households want assist. Now, those self same households are continuously in hurt’s method. They’re closely taxed with deteriorating providers, particularly on our subways. Transit crime is up 41%. Charges and runaway inflation cut back the real-income of New Yorkers, an issue going to be made worse by Hochul’s congestion pricing scheme.
Hochul’s MIA on crime
And I’m not the one Democrat who feels this manner.
Zeldin and I not too long ago met with dozens of South Asian enterprise homeowners at a fuel station that has been robbed a number of occasions. These homeowners are principally immigrants who usually donate to Democrats. Now, they're placing up lots of of Zeldin indicators throughout the state and donating to his marketing campaign. Why? As a result of their companies are beneath fixed menace of violence.
Gov. Hochul refuses to even acknowledge that crime is an issue. Incredulously, through the debate she mentioned to Zeldin, I don’t know why locking up criminals “is so essential to you.” Hochul helps the disastrous bail reform legal guidelines, which launch criminals onto our streets and incentivize prosecutors to keep away from charging lawbreakers. Zeldin has pledged to fireside District Lawyer Alvin Bragg on Day 1. Bragg has refused to implement New York Metropolis legal guidelines, a violation of his oath of workplace.
It’s not simply public security that has me voting Zeldin. It’s the financial system and setting, too. Hochul is exacerbating inflation by imposing a congestion pricing tax on drivers coming into Manhattan. Not solely is that this disastrous for our financial system, however in accordance with Hochul’s personal environmental research, her plan will impose a large environmental burden on the South Bronx as a result of all of the automobiles being diverted by way of this neighborhood. The South Bronx already has excessive ranges of poverty and a air pollution drawback. I believed Democrats have been imagined to care about environmental justice and marginalized communities?
Hochul does care in regards to the migrants. She cares a lot that New York might develop into house to 100,000 migrants inside a yr. Hochul admitted that she hasn’t even referred to as the governor of Texas to debate the problem. She should see open borders as a internet achieve for New York, which is why migrant flights land in Orange County and Westchester in the nighttime with out notifying native authorities.
Dad and mom of migrant youngsters in our college system higher look right into a tutoring service. New York’s math and studying scores had vital declines post-pandemic. Hochul’s training resolution? Obligatory COVID vaccines for youngsters! As a result of vaccine mandates labored out so properly for municipal staff and positively didn't trigger pointless anxiousness nor politicize public well being.
Talking of public well being, contemplating drug overdose deaths are up 36%, you'd suppose coverage proposals would come from Albany to cut back drug use. The truth is, simply the other is happening. Hochul signed into regulation a invoice that decriminalizes the possession and sale of hypodermic needles utilized by addicts. It’s a barbaric coverage designed to make it simpler for addicts to make use of medication.
Again to regular
There isn't a management within the governor’s mansion. Hochul was elected to Congress in a particular election. Her constituents voted her out of Congress and he or she was then appointed lieutenant governor. Her appointment was made since she was referred to as somebody who wouldn’t trigger a stir whereas Andrew Cuomo and firm lied to New Yorkers about pay-to-play schemes, nursing house deaths and sexual harassment circumstances. In a extra useful Democratic Social gathering she would by no means be in a management place.
However voters gained’t be tricked this election. We are able to deal with ourselves to the choice. A sensible, common sense chief, who has expertise within the navy, state Senate and as a congressman.
Be a part of me in voting Lee Zeldin for governor. Collectively, we will get again to regular — protected streets, an improved financial system and higher high quality of life for all New Yorkers.
Robert Holden is a Democratic member of the Metropolis Council, representing Glendale, Maspeth, Center Village and Ridgewood in Queens.
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