Gov. Hochul's endless weaseling is killing the Empire State

[Leroy N. Soetoro]

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

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.


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