New York State Insider: Statement from New York State Conservative Party Chairman Gerard Kassar on Governor Kathy Hochul’s State of the State Address.

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 5, 2022.

 

 

Statement from New York State Conservative Party Chairman Gerard Kassar on 

Governor Kathy Hochul’s State of the State Address.

 

Brooklyn, NY - “It’s amazing how little substance a 237-page State of the State report can contain. Governor Kathy Hochul’s mercifully abbreviated address said even less — which tells us everything. 

 

“Six months after taking office as governor, and seven years after becoming lt. governor, Mrs. Hochul showed today that she has almost no helpful ideas for New York. Her State-of-the-State announcements were simply retreads of old, unaffordable proposals, and double-downs on failed policies implemented by her former partner Governor Andrew Cuomo. 

 

“We hoped Governor Hochul would address rising crime rates caused by no-cash-bail. We hoped she’d push back against deluded progressives like Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg who just announced that he’s forgoing prison sentences for crimes including Armed Robbery. 

 

“We hoped Mrs. Hochul would apologize for firing healthcare workers in the middle of a pandemic; that she’d speak out about racial preferences for life-saving medical care, and finally address New York’s counterproductive tax burden that’s chased a million and a half former New Yorkers, and jobs, out of state. 

 

“Instead, we got more of the same, and more of the same isn’t good enough.  

 

“New Yorkers looking for change — actual, hopeful change — learned today that it isn’t coming under this administration. Fortunately for them, this is an election year.”