Michael Goodwin: Hochuls sickening Mamdani partnership endangers NY. A vote for Blakeman goes against their vile, anti-Israel agenda
Rational and well-informed New Yorkers have long known there are good reasons to make Bruce Blakeman our next governor.And now comes more, thanks to Gov.
Hochul’s decision to pull back the covers on her views of Mayor Mamdani and Israel.In a long interview with Politico, the governor admitted what has become maddeningly obvious: There are no big differences between her and the socialist antisemite in City Hall.“We’re aligned on so many issues,” she said of Mamdani, “and I need the mayor to be successful . . .So I’ve developed a very positive relationship with him.”That “very positive” relationship essentially consists of her using billions and billions of state tax dollars to fill the city’s budget deficit and help fund Mamdani’s exorbitant list of free things.His thank you comes in the form of their joint appearances in her re-election campaign.
The mayor’s attacks on Blakeman and his fawning over Hochul are payback for her funneling gobs of state dollars to him.What she wants is for his legions of anti-Israel and anti-American comrades to vote and give her four more years.The arrangement reveals her blatant use of state money to buy votes from his radical supporters.A not-so-small secondary effect is that she implicitly pledges her support for his continuing anti-capitalist, anti-Israel agenda.The good news is that the obvious pay-to-play arrangement presents sensible voters with a way to punish both participants simultaneously.The sickening pact turns a vote for Blakeman into a vote against both Hochul and Mamdani.
Two birds with one stone.A Blakeman victory would usher in dramatic changes for 20 million residents statewide.The new governor could tighten Albany’s criminal-coddling policies and end the nation’s most punishing tax-and-spending regime, which are sparking an enormous outflow of residents to more sensible states.City dwellers and businesses would reap additional benefits, with Blakeman blocking the tax and spend...