{"id":431184,"date":"2022-04-13T02:43:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T23:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/gov-hochuls-terrible-judgment-leads-to-one-terrible-day\/"},"modified":"2022-04-13T02:43:00","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T23:43:00","slug":"gov-hochuls-terrible-judgment-leads-to-one-terrible-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/gov-hochuls-terrible-judgment-leads-to-one-terrible-day\/","title":{"rendered":"#Gov. Hochul&#8217;s terrible judgment leads to one terrible day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a292f791687f\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a292f791687f\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/gov-hochuls-terrible-judgment-leads-to-one-terrible-day\/#%E2%80%9CGov_Hochuls_terrible_judgment_leads_to_one_terrible_day%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Gov. Hochul&#8217;s terrible judgment leads to one terrible day&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CGov_Hochuls_terrible_judgment_leads_to_one_terrible_day%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Gov. Hochul&#8217;s terrible judgment leads to one terrible day&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--columnist inline-module--author\">\n<div class=\"inline-module--author__img\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"76\" height=\"69\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/bob-mcmanus.png?w=76&amp;h=69&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-nyp_columnist size-nyp_columnist\" alt=\"Bob McManus\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/bob-mcmanus.png 76w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/bob-mcmanus.png?w=38 38w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 76px) 100vw, 76px\"\/>       <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Gov. Kathy Hochul rushed to the microphones Tuesday to reassure New Yorkers following the Brooklyn subway shootings. She should\u2019ve stood in bed.<\/p>\n<p>Out tumbled a jumble of half-thoughts, unfocused and haltingly delivered, underscoring what has been <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>arent for some time now \u2014 which is that New York\u2019s latest accidental governor would be out of her depth in a Buffalo mud puddle.<\/p>\n<p>Which, in a manner of speaking, is where she came from.<\/p>\n<p>Hochul\u2019s horrible day also included <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> that her handpicked, staunchly defended lieutenant governor, Brian Benjamin, had just been arrested on federal corruption charges. Benjamin would be gone by day\u2019s end, of course, but the matter will linger.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, the scandal could have been predicted by anybody who pays even cursory attention to New York politics. But Hochul, it seems, doesn\u2019t pay attention to much. This would explain her selection of Benjamin in the first place \u2014 and the amazingly ineffective state budget cycle that she just stumbled through.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Kathy-Hochul-10.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Gov. Kathy Hochul\" class=\"wp-image-21879416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Kathy-Hochul-10.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Kathy-Hochul-10.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Kathy-Hochul-10.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Gov. Kathy Hochul is proving to be the Empire State\u2019s worst substitute governor.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">David Dee Delgado\/Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It would also explain, if that\u2019s necessary, why Gov. Andrew Cuomo brought her on to his ticket in 2014 \u2014 him having a thing for dim-bulb staffers. (Cuomo\u2019s history now \u2014 probably \u2014 but he\u2019s got to be laughing up his sleeve today.)<\/p>\n<p>First, though, the subway shootings press conference \u2014 a performance that challenges the ability of mere words to describe, though not to worry: It\u2019ll be coming soon to campaign commercials near you.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"915\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/0001-1.jpg?w=915\" alt=\"Front cover of the New York Post on April 13, 2022.\" class=\"wp-image-21882038\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/0001-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1830 1830w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/0001-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1373 1372w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/0001-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=915 915w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/0001-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=458 457w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/0001-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 915px) 100vw, 915px\"\/><figcaption>Front cover of the New York Post on April 13, 2022.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Here\u2019s a tiny taste: \u201cThis morning, ordinary New Yorkers left their homes en route to a normal day. Their sense of tranquility was interrupted by an individual so coldhearted and depraved of heart that they had no caring \u2026\u201d and so on. Not much in the way of comfort there, unless it helps to know that coldhearted and depraved subway shooters have no caring.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Brian-Benjamin.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Lt. Governor Brian Benjamin\" class=\"wp-image-21879412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Brian-Benjamin.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Brian-Benjamin.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Brian-Benjamin.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Lt. Gov. Brian Benjamin is facing charges tied to an alleged campaign finance scheme.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Alec Tabak<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Much more substantive, of course, is the matter of how Benjamin became the Empire State\u2019s lieutenant governor. A ham-and-egg backbench state senator from Harlem, the fellow has long carried the odor of petty corruption that permeates official Albany, the Legislature in particular.<\/p>\n<p>But he had the rhetorical chops to appeal to Hochul \u2014 just elevated to the executive chamber, in need of a lieutenant governor and looking at primary challenges from New York\u2019s increasing radical left. Who better to raise up than a black, vocal defund-the-police progressive?<\/p>\n<p>So that\u2019s what Hochul did.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/BrooklynDevine.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"M\/B on R train shot several people and injured more with a possible explosive device. The man, wearing construction close and a gas mask, fled northbound on the R line where he shot more people at 24th st. He is still outstanding.\" class=\"wp-image-21879415\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/BrooklynDevine.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/BrooklynDevine.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/BrooklynDevine.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Gov. Kathy Hochul did not offer much comfort with her press conference about the subway shooting.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Gabriella Bass<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Imagine her chagrin Tuesday when she learned that Benjamin had been arrested on federal bribery, conspiracy and related wire-fraud charges following his indictment by a federal grand jury.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Worse, it was no secret that the feds had him in their sights all along, even if the particulars weren\u2019t well known \u2014 yet Hochul not only picked him to run with her for a full term, she firmly defended his place on the ticket until Tuesday.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>Loyalty in politics is laudable, if rare. But if there ever were a mistaken judgment that could have been rectified with a discreet dismissal and a \u201cThank you for your service,\u201d it was this one.<\/p>\n<p>Now Benjamin is gone, except that he\u2019ll apparently be on the June primary ballot anyway \u2014 a continuing embarrassment to Hochul and the party in <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a>.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>Savvy politicians don\u2019t get themselves in the soup like this \u2014 which again amplifies Kathy Hochul\u2019s startlingly thin resume. Service on the Hamburg, NY, town board and a term filing legal documents as Erie County clerk isn\u2019t exactly job prep for the Empire State\u2019s top elected office.<\/p>\n<p>But maybe more to the point, Benjamin\u2019s arrest is sure to focus attention on Hochul\u2019s own ethics issue \u2014 her husband.<\/p>\n<p>William Hochul, a career federal prosecutor with no particularly relevant experience, became general counsel to a Buffalo gambling and entertainment company, Delaware North, less than one year after Kathy Hochul became lieutenant governor. This may have been a coincidence, if one believes in them, but the fact is that Delaware North has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars lobbying Albany since then \u2014 including the lieutenant governor\u2019s office itself.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/William-Hochul.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"New York Governor Kathy Hochul (L) with her husband William J. Hochul Jr. shakes hands with Chief Judge Janet DiFiore (R) during her swearing in ceremony at the New York State Capitol in Albany, New York on August 24, 2021.\" class=\"wp-image-21879513\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/William-Hochul.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/William-Hochul.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/William-Hochul.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Gov. Kathy Hochul\u2019s husband, William Hochul, could potentially make plenty of money with the new Bills stadium. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">ANGELA WEISS\/AFP via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Caesar\u2019s wife, please forgive the obvious clich\u00e9, hasn\u2019t been a consideration in New York politics for a very long time \u2014 if ever. But the utility of being above suspicion \u2014 given the Benjamin arrest and the various Cuomo administration corruption scandals \u2014 should be clear to all.<\/p>\n<p>So while there are obvious issues with the governor\u2019s overall competence \u2014 she was just rolled for billions during budget negotiations, getting very little that\u2019s obvious in return \u2014 Tuesday brought her lack of sound judgment into focus.<\/p>\n<p>Also, her inability to speak coherently in a crisis. All in all, Kathy Hochul had a very bad day indeed.<\/p>\n<p><em>Email: bob@bobmcmanus.nyc<\/em>\n                        <\/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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