Gov. Kathy Hochul on Tuesday made a strange attempt to distance himself from the plan to plan President Trump's agenda by delaying the special election.
Hochul stopped Democratic state lawmakers from breaking through the bill on Monday, aiming to negotiate with Trump on his threat of eliminating traffic pricing in Manhattan.
But on Tuesday, she insisted that even if the state Senate Democratic leader said it was all Hochul, she had nothing to do with the plan.
“I don't introduce the bills. That's not the governor's role,” Hochul told reporters at a press conference.
As the bill changes special election rules, Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik's seat will remain empty when she resigns to become Trump's ambassador for the United Nations. The North Country district is sure to be red and if you leave it open, it will ensure that House Republicans will have mostly two seats until November.
Senate majority leader Andrea Stewart Kausins (D-Westchester) contradicts Hochul's attitude.
“It starts with her and if she's interested in holding it, it's fine,” Stewart Cousins told reporters Tuesday.
Stewart Kausins still portrays his relationship with Hochul in a rosy way, saying that the lawmakers and the governor are still “working together.” House minority leader and Brooklyn MP Hakem Jeffries (D-NY) were also involved in the effort.
“It's always great to have a partner working in the same direction,” Stewart Cousins said.
The bill also applies to special elections to fill state legislative seats, such as those currently being held by state senators (D-Brooklyn). The South Brooklyn area offers Republicans a pick-up opportunity.
It is not clear what Hochul's argument with Trump entails, but sources said the governor asked them to put the brakes on the bill as part of their front and back. Hochul launched a $9 crowd victim at Midtown Midtown Manhattan last month to support the Flame Metropolitan Transportation Bureau, but Trump has promised to end it, and has given the federal transport funds to the country. He threatened to pull him up to Kunishu and Big Apple.
But Hochul even tried to distract him from accountability by delaying the bill for Republicans tired of the effort.
“They are so hyperbolic, so this is everything they do and there's no substance behind all of that, so you really have to adjust it,” Hochul said.
Republicans cheered for a temporary suspension of the bill.
“To think that the governor has no knowledge or involvement deny all logic. But under the bill, this bad, plausible negativity is a huge part of what goes from Albany's rights to Hakeem Jefferies' offices. It helps,” writes Will Barclay, a minority leader, in a statement.
“Ding Dong, the evil bill is dead!” Rep. Ali Brown (r-nassau) I wrote it on x Hochul's photo was taken from “The Wizard of Oz” to the evil witch.
Additional Reports by Carl Campanile
