Michael Goodwin: Gov. Hochul playing big sister to Hizzoner shows shes alligned with his agenda

Shed a tear for all of New York.Gov.

Hochul has fallen and can’t get up. Having already put her re-election campaign in the hands of Mayor Mamdani and his Socialist comrades, Hochul is now foolishly trying to rescue him from the fallout of his long trail of anti-semitic actions and words. Her effort to play the role of a helpful “Big Sister” to the young mayor isn’t helping Mamdani, who by all signs remains fully committed to demonizing and hating the Jewish state. Instead, Hochul’s gambit is succeeding spectacularly in confirming that she has only shape-shifting positions instead of genuine convictions. Calling her a weathervane is unkind to weathervanes.After all, they do what they were designed to do. Hochul, on the other hand, was elected to govern the state in a sensible fashion that would stop the exodus of families, businesses and the wealthy, who have been fleeing the Vampire State in record numbers for years. On that, she has failed miserably. Instead of fixing the core problems of too much taxing and spending, she has stayed the destructive course and made the problems far worse.

A fair reading of her record reveals that the key decisions she has made in those areas have plunged New York into an accelerating decline on her watch. The state’s finances, stretched in part by her decision to funnel billions of taxpayer dollars to Mamdani to curry favor with him and his radical base, are a growing concern among Wall Street rating agencies and investors. There is, then, nothing moderate about her record.The far left, as exemplified by Mamdani, has captured her and turned her into their eager and willing financier and water carrier. An obvious result is that her campaign for re-election is aimed largely at his followers, in the hopes they will repay the favors by turning out for her in November. The latest revealing incident of the pattern involves a mere sideline event at the raucous opening session of the United Nations General Assembl...