{"id":335211,"date":"2021-09-05T03:30:07","date_gmt":"2021-09-05T00:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/gov-kathy-hochul-takes-a-sharp-turn-left\/"},"modified":"2021-09-05T03:30:07","modified_gmt":"2021-09-05T00:30:07","slug":"gov-kathy-hochul-takes-a-sharp-turn-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/gov-kathy-hochul-takes-a-sharp-turn-left\/","title":{"rendered":"#Gov. Kathy Hochul takes a sharp turn left"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Gov. Kathy Hochul takes a sharp turn left<\/strong>&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/New-York-Governor-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n        <\/aside>\n<p>Maybe we were wrong to cheer Gov. Kathy Hochul\u2019s early decision to run to keep her job in next year\u2019s election: With an eye on the June primary, she\u2019s pandering to the left and, in at least one regard, to Democratic insiders.<\/p>\n<p>She began nicely enough, not only promising transparency but delivering by acknowledging the true number of New York\u2019s COVID-related deaths.<\/p>\n<p>But even there, she\u2019s backsliding: Her Health Department is still stonewalling easily fulfilled Empire Center freedom-of-information requests for more COVID data, and she <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>eased the establishment at the expense of transparency by restoring a giant loophole in the Open Meetings law.<\/p>\n<p>She did the latter after ordering a special session of the state Legislature to consider her picks to regulate legal pot and to extend the eviction moratorium \u2014 without mentioning the anti-transparency move \u2019til the night before the Legislature\u2019s leaders rushed it through.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll give her a pass on the pot move: Sadly, New York is going to need the money, and the Legislature and Andrew Cuomo already legalized it in March. Appointing regulators was just delayed because then-Gov. Cuomo was locked in a dispute with the Senate over his plans to overhaul the Metropolitan Transportation Authority\u2019s leadership. But why not settle the MTA questions, too? It\u2019s far too important an agency to proceed under <em>acting<\/em> leaders. <\/p>\n<p>But the evictions action was pretty extreme, extending the ban to Jan. 15. This is a pure pander to the left\u2019s overwrought hysteria about a supposed mass wave of evictions; the result (assuming courts don\u2019t strike it down) will be mainly to protect the few tenants who exploit the ban. <\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>In reality, as Howard Husock pointed out in these pages, Hochul should be looking to fix the state\u2019s impossible mechanism for distributing billions in federal grants meant to pay rents and \u201ckeep property owners afloat.\u201d Even as other states have been doling out the cash for months, New York has sent out just $100 million of the $2.6 billion in aid.<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s also playing into the school-masking madness. As she\u2019d requested, the Department of Health has mandated that all students, faculty and staff mask up no matter vaccination status. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy No. 1 priority is getting children back to school and protecting the environment so they can learn safely,\u201d she said. But the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">science<\/a> has shown time and again that kids aren\u2019t at real risk of COVID and are far less likely to spread it \u2014 and that includes Delta. That\u2019s why Britain and other advanced nations don\u2019t require school masking, certainly not of under-12s. <\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>Rather than making children the priority, this looks more like putting teachers-union demands first. (She could prove otherwise by getting the Legislature to raise the cap that stops new charter schools from opening in the city, but she\u2019s been silent on that so far.)<\/p>\n<p>Then there\u2019s her pick for lieutenant governor \u2014 the far-left state Sen. Brian Benjamin, a huge fan of the \u201cDefund the police\u201d movement, even making it central to his failed run for city comptroller this year. <\/p>\n<p>Hochul\u2019s press secretary, Hazel Crampton-Hays, said the governor doesn\u2019t support the movement herself. So will she push for key fixes to the no-bail law, so that judges can order clear threats to public safety to be locked up? As courts have interpreted it, it doesn\u2019t even allow judges to order mental-health evaluations for perps who haven\u2019t committed bail-eligible offenses.<\/p>\n<p>The city needs a tough-on-crime gov pushing the Legislature to do right. Shootings this year are up 5.3 percent over the same span in 2020. The murder rates are close to last year\u2019s figures \u2014 299 compared to 303 \u2014 but that\u2019s still an almost 40 percent spike from 2019, NYPD statistics show. Felony assaults have increased 5 percent.<\/p>\n<p>If Gov. Hochul wants to be far better than Cuomo, she needs to stop playing the same appease-the-far-left <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a>s.\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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Kathy Hochul takes a sharp turn left&#8221; Maybe we were wrong to cheer Gov. Kathy Hochul\u2019s early decision to run to keep her job in next year\u2019s election: With an eye on the June primary, she\u2019s pandering to the left and, in at least one regard, to Democratic insiders. 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