{"id":1696469,"date":"2022-10-16T06:30:07","date_gmt":"2022-10-16T10:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1696469"},"modified":"2022-10-16T15:04:04","modified_gmt":"2022-10-16T19:04:04","slug":"nicole-gelinas-gov-hochul-is-using-your-money-to-try-to-buy-an-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nicole-gelinas-gov-hochul-is-using-your-money-to-try-to-buy-an-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicole Gelinas: Gov. Hochul Is Using Your Money to Try to Buy an Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnicole-gelinas-gov-hochul-is-using-your-money-to-try-to-buy-an-election%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1696469&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Are you enjoying Gov. Hochul\u2019s campaign for governor? You had better be \u2014 because you\u2019ll be paying for it for a long time. The governor is spending lavishly<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/10\/13\/new-ny-gov-poll-shows-kathy-hochul-enthusiasm-gap-surging-lee-zeldin\/\"> to make herself popular<\/a> \u2014 and she\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/10\/13\/kathy-hochul-accused-of-tax-rebate-gimmick-in-lee-zeldin-race\/\">spending your future tax dollars<\/a> to do it.<\/p>\n<p>Once again, Hochul is proving she learned well from the master. Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo was famous for plastering every corner of New York state with taxpayer money, no matter how ill-judged the purpose \u2014 remember the \u201cBuffalo Billion\u201d boondoggle? \u2014 since the real purpose was to ensure his own re-election.<\/p>\n<p>Now Hochul is out-Cuomoing Cuomo. Her first-ever state budget, enacted in April, featured a last-minute campaign slush fund. The budget included $1.6 billion to spread around politically crucial corners of the state, including $920 million which is <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/10\/11\/the-catastrophic-effects-of-dem-leaders-like-kathy-hochul-not-having-an-agenda\/\">earmarked for whatever she wants.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Take Long Island \u2014 a <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/10\/12\/lee-zeldin-leads-kathy-hochul-on-long-island-ahead-of-election\/\">classic swing-vote region<\/a>, where Rep. Lee Zeldin, Hochul\u2019s opponent, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/10\/14\/hochuls-lead-over-zeldin-shrinks-in-ny-gov-race-indy-poll\/\">has been gaining in the polls<\/a>, due to fears over crime.<\/p>\n<p>Coincidentally, the Hochul budget includes a $350 million \u201cLong Island Investment Fund,\u201d to be doled out by her Empire State Development Corp., the same entity that wants to raze the blocks around Manhattan\u2019s Penn Station to benefit a single real-estate donor.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/hochul-buying-election-103.jpg\"><\/a>The Tappan Zee Bridge bought Cuomo popularity in the suburbs, but was also a necessary project.Christopher Sadowski <\/p>\n<p>Similarly, the biggest chunk of the Long Island fund \u2014 $100 million \u2014 will go to \u201clarge-scale, real-estate development projects.\u201d As usual, New York is getting real estate backward: Developers are supposed to pay taxes, not the other way around, with taxpayers paying developers.<\/p>\n<p>The state is vague about where the rest of the Long Island dollars will go. For example, another $150 million will go to \u201cother projects that must have the potential to develop or redevelop sites into job-creation engines.\u201d That could be, literally, anything.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s more of this for other swing-vote areas. Most of the money isn\u2019t to <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/10\/10\/ive-had-it-this-former-prosecutor-is-voting-zeldin-over-hochul-to-fix-new-yorks-crime-crisis\/\">buy votes directly<\/a>, but to silence potential political opposition.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/hochul-buying-election-106.jpg\"><\/a>Buffalo Billions was an example of Cuomo plastering every corner of New York state with taxpayer moneyAP <\/p>\n<p>For example, the prospect of $185 million in \u201cgrants .\u2009.\u2009. to state and municipal government entities or nonprofit organizations for essentially any purpose,\u201d as the Citizens Budget Commission describes them, will keep some local Democrats quiet over rising crime.<\/p>\n<p>It would be one thing if Hochul were going to spend this money on useful infrastructure. Cuomo often \u2014 not always \u2014 did that. For example, his motives were slightly impure in putting $2.6 billion toward a third track on the Long Island Rail Road, expanding capacity. But long term, New York needed that extra rail capacity, anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Same thing with the Tappan Zee Bridge replacement north of Gotham. It bought Cuomo popularity in the suburbs, but it was also a necessary project.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/hochul-buying-election-104.jpg\"><\/a>Lee Zeldin is seeing high polling numbers in Long Island. William Farrington <\/p>\n<p>Moreover, a full $1.2 billion of the government money Hochul is spending to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you enjoying Gov. Hochul\u2019s campaign for governor? You had better be \u2014 because you\u2019ll be paying for it for a long time. The governor is spending lavishly to make herself popular \u2014 and she\u2019s spending your future tax dollars to do it. Once again, Hochul is proving she learned well from the master. 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