New York’s “blue state model” is at risk of being rejected by voters
- Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul faces defeat in her bid to become the first woman governor of New York in 20 years
- In the 20 years since a Republican last won statewide office, Democrats have established near full-spectrum dominance over politics in New York
- The 2018 state senate elections wiped out the Independent Democratic Caucus, a group of centrists who shared power with Republicans and gave the mainline party a legislative supermajority
- Criminal-justice reform in 2019 eliminated bail for almost all offenses short of rape and murder
- Reforms to the process of criminal discovery have led many overburdened and under-resourced prosecutors not to file charges against suspects, even with a high likelihood of culpability
- At the same time, an empowered legislature pushed through new rules on rental apartments that appear to have worsened New York City's housing crisis
Kathy Hochul became governor of New York following the resignation of Andrew Cuomo under circumstances that remain as baffling and opaque as a power struggle in the Chinese Politburo
- 14 months into her tenure as governor, there has been an extraordinary amount of sleaze and evident grift
- New York State continues to have one of the nation's worst unemployment rates, and New York City-where she needs to overperform electorally to make up for an anticipated rout upstate-is doing even worse
- The subway, under her control, is still running at about three-fifths of its pre-pandemic ridership
https://www.city-journal.org/can-lee-zeldin-knock-off-kathy-hochul
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