Posted on 04/16/2022 2:10:54 AM PDT by Libloather
ALBANY - One man's scandal catapulted New York Gov. Kathy Hochul into office. Will alleged misconduct by another man hurt her chances of holding on to the job?
Hochul's previously smooth path to a Democratic primary win hit a major bump this week when her lieutenant governor, Brian Benjamin, resigned following his arrest in a federal corruption investigation.
One of Hochul's first big decisions as governor was to appoint Benjamin, then a state senator, after she took over from Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who resigned last summer rather than face impeachment over sexual harassment allegations, which he has denied.
Her leading opponents in both the primary and general election pounced, saying Hochul's pick of Benjamin at a time when he was already under scrutiny showed poor judgement.
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U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi, a Long Island Democrat also trying to beat Hochul, piled on, saying her pick of Benjamin was part of a pattern of bad choices, which he said included cutting a deal that will give her hometown Buffalo Bills more than $1.1 billion to build and operate a new stadium.
"Hochul has fostered a culture of continued corruption with months of fundraising from pay to play insiders and people doing business with the state, and secretive budget deals that resulted in the billion dollar Bills stadium and little else," Suozzi tweeted.
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I expect little affect since liberals don’t care about the little things like corruption, lies, common sense and facts. They’re more concerned with emotions and gender identity.
She puts in a black, transgender, birthing person she’s got the votes.
NYC now has RCV.
The state has RCV-enabled voting machines.
I don’t think Deep State is worried.
Unless it doesn’t want to risk getting caught stealing our mid-term elections, too...
appointing a criminal as her number two doesn’t say much about her judgement ... or maybe it does ...
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