smacked down<\/a> an effort by the counties to toss out the law last month in a unanimous decision written by Judge Michael Garcia, a Republican, prompting the federal suit.<\/p>\n\u201cKathy Hochul and power-mad Democrats want to move local elections to even years to consolidate their control of government,\u201d David Laska, a spokesperson for the state GOP, told The Post Friday.<\/p>\n
\u201cRepublicans will pursue every avenue to give local issues the attention they deserve \u2013 because the government that governs closest to the people governs best,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The State Republican Committee has sued Gov. Kathy Hochul in federal court to repeal the 2023 law. Matthew McDermott<\/p>\n
Emma Wallner, a spokesperson for Hochul, said the Democratic governor \u201ccontinues to champion New York\u2019s even-year election legislation because she believes our state is stronger when more people have the opportunity to participate in government.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe won in court once, and we\u2019ll do it again,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
If the latest effort fails, the 2027 would be the first off cycle year without most local elections up for a vote.<\/p>\n
William Brewer III, lead counsel for the plaintiffs, said, \u201cThe Even-Year Election Law is unconstitutional and undemocratic.\u201d Paul Martinka<\/p>\n
The state law does not apply to New York City, but voters face a similar question on their ballots during the Nov. 4 election, asking them whether local elections should be moved to coincide with presidential years.<\/p>\n
The concept is coming as a shock to even some of the Big Apple\u2019s most notable lefty denizens.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI honestly don\u2019t understand why [New York City Mayor Eric Adams] wants to change when New Yorkers vote,\u201d former Mayor Bill de Blasio squealed on X, Friday.<\/p>\n
\u201cI fear that moving to even-number years will take attention away from local issues and will advantage candidates with wealth or fame. I urge all New Yorkers to vote NO on Ballot Proposal 6,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALBANY \u2013\u00a0New York Republicans are making a last-ditch bid to stop Democrats from moving most local elections outside…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":346684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,39799,7033,90,5371,336,5248,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,5620,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-346683","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-brooklyn-federal-court","10":"tag-democrats","11":"tag-elections","12":"tag-kathy-hochul","13":"tag-lawsuits","14":"tag-metro","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-city","17":"tag-newyork","18":"tag-newyorkcity","19":"tag-ny","20":"tag-nyc","21":"tag-republicans","22":"tag-united-states","23":"tag-united-states-of-america","24":"tag-unitedstates","25":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","26":"tag-us","27":"tag-us-news","28":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115471425636164087","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}