Long Island Dem Tom Suozzi blows off Hochul campaign event as party snubs mount

Dems the breaks.Rep.Tom Suozzi will snub a Long Island campaign event with Gov.

Kathy Hochul on Saturday because of a scheduling clash — as other down-ballot New York Democrats distance themselves from the unpopular Empire State leader.Suozzi’s campaign told The Post that the five-term Long Island congressman was “fully booked,” and couldn’t make the “Nassau County Young Democrats’ Bus Tour and Canvass Launch.”“Congressman Suozzi’s schedule is set weeks in advance and he is fully booked all weekend,” a spokesperson for the Nassau County pol said Friday.The cold-shoulder comes after two other Democratic candidates in high-profile midterm races separated themselves from the state party’s standard-bearer, who is up for re-election herself on November 3 against Republican Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman.In an embarrassing caught-on-camera moment, battleground Dem challenger Cait Conley told prospective voters this week that she agreed with Republican Hudson Valley Rep.Mike Lawler after he said Hochul “has got to go.”“We need a new governor.

Kathy Hochul has to go,” the incumbent congressman said at the end of his speech during a Putnam County VFW forum Tuesday night, video obtained by The Post shows.“I have to tell you: I’m in absolute agreement with my opponent,” Conley said immediately after Lawler handed her the mic, then telling the conservative-leaning crowd that New York was “screwing you over.”Democrat Blake Gendebien, meanwhile, refused to say if he would even vote or support Hochul when asked by a Utica-area radio station on October 8, The Post reported this week.“What I support is anyone that will help the North Country be absolutely successful,” said Gendebien, who is running against Republican Anthony Constantino to replace retiring GOP Rep.Elise Stefanik in the 21st House District.While that upstate district has been deemed “likely Republican” by the Cook Political Report, the race between Lawler a...