{"id":2371020,"date":"2024-11-19T20:33:56","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T01:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hochul-and-cuomo-spar-about-congestion-pricing-mess-roiling-new-york-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-11-19T20:35:30","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T01:35:30","slug":"hochul-and-cuomo-spar-about-congestion-pricing-mess-roiling-new-york-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hochul-and-cuomo-spar-about-congestion-pricing-mess-roiling-new-york-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Hochul and Cuomo spar about congestion pricing \u2018mess\u2019 roiling New York &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"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%2Fhochul-and-cuomo-spar-about-congestion-pricing-mess-roiling-new-york-washington-examiner%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=2371020&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--><p>The article discusses\u2062 the\u200c ongoing conflict \u200dbetween New York \u200cGovernor Kathy Hochul and \u200dformer \u2064Governor Andrew Cuomo regarding \u200bthe contentious issue of congestion pricing in\u200b New York City. Hochul has faced criticism from both political parties for her approach to a congestion pricing plan, which she attributes\u200d to \u200dthe challenges inherited from Cuomo,\u2063 who initially \u2064signed \u200cthe legislation in 2019. While Hochul suggests that she is attempting to resolve the issues left by \u2063Cuomo, he counters by stating that it was during her\u200d administration that the congestion charge was\u2063 adopted, blaming her for the lack of effective leadership and\u2063 strategy. The article highlights the political tensions and criticisms surrounding their\u2062 respective roles \u200cin the congestion pricing debate, as well as Hochul&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">declining approval ratings<\/a> and the growing\u200b concerns among Democrats \u200cabout \u200bfuture elections.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Hochul and Cuomo spar about congestion pricing &lsquo;mess&rsquo; roiling New York<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1885861\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Gov. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/kathy-hochul\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Kathy Hochul (D-NY) <\/a>has been <span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">criticized by both sides of the aisle for her waffling on a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3230041\/kathy-hochul-revised-congestion-pricing-plan-start-january\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">congestion pricing<\/a>&nbsp;plan, b<\/span>ut she has&nbsp;said the attacks are unwarranted.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Instead, the blame should be laid at the feet of her predecessor, former Gov. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/andrew-cuomo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Andrew Cuomo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hochul told a crowd at a Manhattan event that she inherited the congestion pricing problem from Cuomo and had to &ldquo;clean up the mess.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Cuomo signed the bill that would start the path to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hochul-paying-policy-price-for-political-decision-to-delay-congestion-charge\/\" title=\"Hochul faces consequences for delaying congestion charge due to political decision\">implementing congestion pricing<\/a> in 2019 but never put the toll into place during his tenure as governor. His term ended after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/here-are-the-12-pivotal-primary-races-of-2022\/\" title=\"Here Are The 12 Pivotal Primary Races Of 2022\">sexual misconduct scandal forced<\/a> him out of office in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Cuomo shot back at Hochul&rsquo;s attempts to pin the blame on him.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It was under Kathy Hochul&rsquo;s watch that her MTA adopted the $15 congestion charge and was its main champion,&rdquo; Cuomo spokesman Rich Azzopardi told the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em>. &ldquo;The only mess created here was her sloppy fits, starts, reversals, and re-reversals that all seemed to coincide with the political calendar. New Yorkers aren&rsquo;t stupid, she&rsquo;s been governor for more than three years, and constantly blaming the last guy for your own shortcomings isn&rsquo;t leadership &mdash; but it does explain her poll numbers and the increasing number of Democrats openly fretting about 2026.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Hochul has frequently criticized the former governor. Before he resigned in 2021, she called his misconduct &ldquo;repulsive and unlawful &rdquo; and took a shot at him this year after a former aide was charged with working as an<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/3143267\/hochul-condemns-former-aide-china\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"> undisclosed foreign agent<\/a> for China.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;She primarily worked for Andrew Cuomo for many more years,&rdquo; Hochul noted then. &ldquo;She was with me just a short time, about 15 months.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Her criticism of Cuomo likely comes with little consequence. The Democratic Party distanced itself from Cuomo after his sexual misconduct scandal forced him out of politics.<\/p>\n<p>Hochul explained that she was willing to take on the congestion pricing problem that Cuomo left her anyway. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I never gravitate toward the easy,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;I gravitate toward the hard.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The New York governor recently announced that congestion pricing would go forward but with a $9 price tag for commuters instead of $15. The plan is scheduled to go into effect in January.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This is not turn it on and say goodbye,&rdquo; Hochul said. &ldquo;We will continue looking at this.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>As for Cuomo, he remains in the background of New York politics, often rumored to be a candidate to be New York City&rsquo;s next mayor.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1885861\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1885861\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hochul blames Cuomo for congestion pricing issues in NY<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2371021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Hochul-weed.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[44648,3714,8433,32120,5894],"class_list":["post-2371020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-congestion-pricing","tag-cuomo","tag-hochul","tag-new-york","tag-politics"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Hochul-weed.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2371020","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=2371020"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2371020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2371024,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2371020\/revisions\/2371024"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2371021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2371020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2371020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2371020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}