Guess “tomorrow” actually is “at all times a day away.”
On Election Day Tuesday, in one in all her last marketing campaign stops, Gov. Kathy Hochul promised to revive “optimism” to New York “very first thing tomorrow morning.”
The vow to voters that she would get proper to it if elected got here as Hochul pledged to handle the fears of rising crime and inflation that led to an unexpectedly shut race with Republican Lee Zeldin.
However that was yesterday.
And as tomorrow grew to become as we speak, the newly elected governor — in contrast to many previous gubernatorial and mayoral winners — had no public schedule on Wednesday.
The truth is, she was getting ready for a visit out of New York altogether — to the SOMOS convention in Puerto Rico.
“This metropolis is again, and I need to lead this state into the following 4 years and probably past with a way of optimism now we have not had right here in a very long time,” she mentioned at a last marketing campaign cease on Manhattan’s Higher East Aspect as voters went to the polls.
“That can begin very first thing tomorrow morning,” vowed the Buffalo native, who has been governor since her predecessor Andrew Cuomo resigned in August 2021.
After a late-night celebratory watch social gathering at Chinatown’s Capitale, Hochul remained in New York Metropolis and was not holding any public occasions on Wednesday.
She is slated to fly to San Juan Thursday for the annual Somos Puerto Rico Convention together with most of the largely Democratic state and metropolis elected officers, like Mayor Eric Adams and Albany leaders.
The junket, which is meant to handle “issues of the Hispanic group” is a five-day sun-soaked getaway for Albany lawmakers and lobbyists to maneuver and get facetime with each other at conferences, events and the seashore.
Hochul is about to take a victory lap at her occasion “An Night With Governor Kathy Hochul” Thursday night on the El San Juan Lodge Fairmont, a luxurious seaside resort within the territory’s capital.
Her victory was anticipated to cement her leverage over state lawmakers, however Republican beneficial properties over average Democrats within the state senate left the governor contending with a legislative majority that's now weighted to her left.
The governor’s workplace had no remark when requested about her lack of motion Wednesday regardless of the “tomorrow” vow a day earlier.
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