Hochul isnt restraining Mamdani shes enabling and protecting him

If it weren’t already clear, Gov.Kathy Hochul made it unmistakable last week: She’s committed to enabling Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s worst excesses.Sure, the gov tells fat-cat donors that she’s reining the mayor in — but it’s barely even good-cop/bad-cop.More like Dr.

Frankenstein and his monster — Gov.Hochulstein, perhaps?Last week’s tell was her out-of-the-blue defense of Mamdani’s despicable “enemies list” — his Department of Finance’s release of hundreds of thousand of names of New Yorkers who might need to pay the Hochul-Mamdani pied-à-terre tax.Her name belongs on there every bit as much as his: She pushed it into law in Albany, after she chose it back in April from among his team’s long list of possible tax-the-rich revenue-raisers; her people even did the math to figure out where it needed to kick in to produce the desired take.The cutoff is $5 million for a standalone-home value; just $1 million for a condo or coop, though the mayor keeps saying it’s only the $5 million amount.And it was just one part of her bail-out-Zohran package, along with other big state grants and giving a thumbs-up to the city running up billions in fresh debt to fund socialist spending now.And never mind that it will hit plenty of non-rich: Many a modest unit, bought for far less years ago, could now sell for $1 million or more.Worse, the DOF enemies list was completely unnecessary: It’s not about notifying the potential taxpayers (the city must contact them directly), so it has to be about alerting the public, especially the mayor’s Luigi Mangione-loving fans, of the names and addresses of their class enemies.

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Never miss a story.Yet Hochul went out of her way to deny that: The list is nothing “out of the ordinary,” she insisted: “This is a list...