{"id":436738,"date":"2025-12-10T01:20:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T01:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/436738\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T01:20:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T01:20:18","slug":"were-no-45-kathy-hochuls-pathetic-points-of-pride-in-her-achievements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/436738\/","title":{"rendered":"We’re No. 45! Kathy Hochul’s pathetic points of pride in her achievements"},"content":{"rendered":"

Asked to name her biggest achievements since taking office in 2021, Gov. Kathy Hochul offered up an incredible reply \u2014 and then her staff made it worse by answering the inevitably criticism by bragging about how New York ranks<\/a> as the 45th state on \u201caffordability.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then again, Hochul\u2019s minions were trying to cover for the gov\u2019s own clueless horn-tooting, as she told Politico of her pride in \u201cstimulating the economy after the pandemic\u201d \u2014 when New York under Hochul lagged the nation first in ending COVID restrictions and then in recovering the jobs lost when the lockdowns hit. <\/p>\n

Worse, she claimed \u201cthe foundation of it all was reducing crime,\u201d when governors bear little responsibility for local crimefighting and it took her years to wrestle even the smallest crime-cutting concessions from the Legislature. <\/p>\n

Politico\u2019s reporters dutifully ran to Rep. Elise Stefanik, the gov\u2019s likely opponent next fall<\/a>, for comment; she slammed the gov for making \u201cNew York the most unaffordable state in the nation with the highest taxes, energy and utility prices.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ouch! It stings because so much of it is clearly true.<\/p>\n

Even more laughable was the reply from the gov\u2019s campaign team, citing a US News & World Report ranking that has New York \u201conly\u201d 45th on affordability, not 50th.<\/p>\n

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They also whined that most of New England has higher electricity costs \u2014 not mentioning that New York\u2019s refusal to allow a natural-gag pipeline to reach those states from Pennsylvania is a big reason why \u2014 as do remote Alaska and Hawaii and Gavin Newsom\u2019s ultra-green California.<\/p>\n

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Never mind that a Cornell University poll this summer found that about 80% of New Yorkers said their biggest financial threat is the cost of living in the Empire State.<\/p>\n

And of course Hochul\u2019s done her own damage to affordability, not least with her congestion tolls<\/a> \u2014 and she\u2019s already teeing up another tax hike<\/a> to win points with Zohran Mamdani and his rampaging socialists.<\/p>\n

Hochul has been a weak leader from the start \u2014 hopelessly risk-averse in ending lockdown mandates; pathetically slow to admit the toxic impact of the state\u2019s criminal-justice \u201creforms,\u201d beyond cowardly in facing the destructive impact of the Cuomo climate polices \u2014 and her campaign team reflects that lameness.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re No. 45, they trumpet: God help New York. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Asked to name her biggest achievements since taking office in 2021, Gov. Kathy Hochul offered up an incredible…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":436739,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,22807,79,4691,22808,5371,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,1269,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-436738","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-bruce-blakeman","10":"tag-economy","11":"tag-editorial","12":"tag-elise-stefanik","13":"tag-kathy-hochul","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-city","16":"tag-newyork","17":"tag-newyorkcity","18":"tag-ny","19":"tag-nyc","20":"tag-opinion","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-united-states-of-america","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115692648986142992","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436738","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=436738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}