{"id":1713487,"date":"2022-10-27T12:32:41","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T16:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1713487"},"modified":"2022-10-27T12:48:51","modified_gmt":"2022-10-27T16:48:51","slug":"what-happened-to-kathy-ny-governor-disappears-after-debate-with-lee-zeldin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/what-happened-to-kathy-ny-governor-disappears-after-debate-with-lee-zeldin\/","title":{"rendered":"What Happened to Kathy? NY Governor Disappears After Debate With Lee Zeldin"},"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\">24<\/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%2Fwhat-happened-to-kathy-ny-governor-disappears-after-debate-with-lee-zeldin%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=1713487&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/d70c8c7f-4000-41bc-8fb7-aa68bee59e4b-1110x740-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Just how badly did unlected Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul\u2019s debate with Republican Congressman Lee Zeldin go? Badly enough that she\u2019s been avoiding the press corps like the plague ever since. She quickly and quietly disappeared following the debate where she actually laughed and wondered aloud why Zeldin was so focused on the state\u2019s rapidly rising crime rates. The following day, Hochul showed up at a senior citizens\u2019 center in Times Plaza where she individually spoke with a few dozen residents over lunch. Reporters were directed to the lobby of the building for a press gaggle by the Governor\u2019s spokeswoman. But they waited in vain after Hochul <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/10\/26\/kathy-hochul-ditches-press-after-asking-zeldin-why-crimes-a-big-deal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">was bustled out of a back door<\/a>. Reporters running outside to catch her only managed to get a glimpse of her SUV as it sped away. (NY Post)<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Gov. Kathy Hochul used the old \u201cbait and switch\u201d to <a id=\"reader.external-link.num-2\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/10\/25\/hochul-baffled-when-zeldin-talks-jailing-criminals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">avoid post-debate questions<\/a>\u00a0from the city\u2019s press corps on Wednesday \u2014 luring reporters away from a campaign event in Brooklyn and then ducking out a back door.<\/p>\n<p>The sneaky strategy unfolded just hours after Hochul\u2019s\u00a0<a id=\"reader.external-link.num-3\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/10\/25\/ny-governor-debate-live-updates-kathy-hochul-vs-lee-zeldin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">first and only face-off<\/a>\u00a0with Republican challenger Lee Zeldin, during which the incumbent Democrat stunningly said she couldn\u2019t understand why it\u2019s \u201cso important\u201d to lock up criminals.<\/p>\n<p>In the wake of the controversial remark, Hochul stumped for votes at the RAICES Times Plaza Neighborhood Senior Center, where she individually chatted up about 30 people as they ate lunch in the basement cafeteria.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Spokeswoman Jen Goodman was left with the unenviable task of trying to explain Hochul\u2019s disappearing act. She came back to the waiting reporters and claimed that an unspecified \u201csecurity threat\u201d had caused the cancellation of the press conference. When pressed for more details, she said that protesters had entered the facility and \u201cdisrupted the space,\u201d leading to concerns for the Governor\u2019s safety.<\/p>\n<p>That answer didn\u2019t fly any better than the first attempt. Reporters noted that a single protester had shown up in the lobby. He was described as a \u201cwell-dressed man\u201d who was holding a sign that read, \u201cSign the Foreclosure Abuse Prevention Act.\u201d The man reportedly said nothing and did not approach the front of the venue where Hochul would have been speaking. He did speak briefly to the receptionist in the lobby, but that was all and nobody asked him to leave. So that was the \u201csecurity threat\u201d that caused Kathy Hochul to flee out into Manhattan\u2019s traffic?<\/p>\n<p>Reporters were then told by Goodman that they could catch up with Hochul and speak to her at her next event which was to take place at the Sheraton New York Times Square hotel. The press corps dutifully headed to their cars and followed the governor to the hotel. But after delivering a ten-minute speech, Hochul once again walked past all of the reporters silently as they called out questions to her.<\/p>\n<p>You can almost sympathize with Hochul\u2019s handlers for wanting to keep her away from the press. Her debate was almost as much of a disaster as John Fetterman\u2019s. When Lee Zeldin pointedly asked her why she refuses to talk about \u201clocking up criminals\u201d during her campaign events, Hochul responded by saying, \u201cI don\u2019t know why that\u2019s so important to you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For a person asking for the votes of people whose top three issues are crime, inflation, and the cost of living, that was one of the more tone-deaf answers imaginable. But perhaps she truly doesn\u2019t understand. Either that or she knows that she\u2019s done nothing to curb the escalating crime rates and simply doesn\u2019t have an answer to give.<\/p>\n<p>Hochul\u2019s refusal to take any questions or address the concerns of the voters may already be coming back to haunt her. In Arizona, cowardly Democrat Katie Hobbs ran away from every opportunity to debate Kari Lake and now Hobbs is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox10phoenix.com\/news\/2022-arizona-election-poll-lake-leads-governors-race-senate-race-tightens\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trailing by double digits<\/a>. And this week we saw our first poll where Kathy Hochul was <a href=\"https:\/\/hotair.com\/jazz-shaw\/2022\/10\/22\/is-it-real-poll-shows-zeldin-pulling-ahead-of-hochul-in-ny-n505126\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">narrowly trailing Lee Zeldin<\/a> in a state where Democrats maintain a two-to-one registration advantage. We have indeed lived to see interesting times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just how badly did unlected Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul\u2019s debate with Republican Congressman Lee Zeldin go? Badly enough that she\u2019s been avoiding the press corps like the plague ever since.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1713492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1713487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1713487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1713492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1713487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1713487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1713487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}