{"id":5955,"date":"2026-08-02T10:41:03","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T10:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=5955"},"modified":"2026-08-02T10:41:03","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T10:41:03","slug":"hochul-isnt-restraining-mamdani-shes-enabling-and-protecting-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=5955","title":{"rendered":"Hochul isn’t restraining Mamdani \u2014 she’s enabling and protecting him"},"content":{"rendered":"
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If it weren\u2019t already clear, Gov. Kathy Hochul made it unmistakable last week: She\u2019s committed to enabling<\/em> Mayor Zohran Mamdani\u2019s worst excesses.<\/p>\n

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Sure, the gov tells fat-cat donors that she\u2019s reining the mayor in \u2014 but it\u2019s barely even good-cop\/bad-cop.<\/p>\n

More like Dr. Frankenstein and his monster \u2014 Gov. Hochulstein, perhaps?<\/p>\n

Last week\u2019s tell was her out-of-the-blue defense of Mamdani\u2019s despicable \u201cenemies list\u201d \u2014 his Department of Finance\u2019s release of hundreds of thousand of names of New Yorkers who might<\/em> need to pay the Hochul-Mamdani pied-\u00e0-terre tax.<\/p>\n

Her name belongs on there every bit as much as his: She<\/em> pushed it into law in Albany, after she<\/em> chose it back in April from among his team\u2019s long list of possible tax-the-rich revenue-raisers; her<\/em> people even did the math to figure out where it needed to kick in to produce the desired take.<\/p>\n

The cutoff is $5 million for a standalone-home value; just $1 million for a condo or coop, though the mayor keeps saying it\u2019s only the $5 million amount.<\/p>\n

And it was just one part of her bail-out-Zohran package, along with other big state grants and<\/em> giving a thumbs-up to the city running up billions in fresh debt to fund socialist spending now.<\/p>\n

And never mind that it will hit plenty of non<\/em>-rich: Many a modest unit, bought for far less years ago, could now sell for $1 million or more.<\/p>\n

Worse, the DOF enemies list was completely<\/em> unnecessary: It\u2019s not about notifying the potential taxpayers (the city must contact them directly), so it has<\/em> to be about alerting the public, especially the mayor\u2019s Luigi Mangione-loving fans, of the names and addresses of their class enemies.<\/p>\n

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Yet Hochul went out of her way to deny that: The list is nothing \u201cout of the ordinary,\u201d she insisted: \u201cThis is a list that\u2019s released on an annual basis. Nothing unusual here.\u201d<\/p>\n

If so, gov, point to it \u2014 and don\u2019t pretend that the much larger database of all<\/em> property values is the same thing. We\u2019re waiting . . .\u00a0<\/p>\n

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No: A guilty-till-proven-innocent tax (one where it\u2019s hard to prove innocence!) that\u2019s already<\/em> swept up innocent New Yorkers is most certainly \u201cout of the ordinary.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hochul is now only pretending<\/em> (for the purposes of not losing in November) to be a moderate: Witness her remarks just the other week\u00a0that New York \u201cshould not be raising taxes on high-net-worth individuals\u201dor job-creating companies \u2014 when she\u2019s done at least three such hikes this year alone, including the pied-\u00e0-terre tax.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Whether from fear or cynicism, she\u2019s committed to backing Mamdani\u2019s plays \u2014 and is sure to do even more of it after November, when the DSA ranks in the Legislature have grown larger and she no longer has to worry about what the voters think.<\/p>\n

Sane New Yorkers need to take notice, and cast their November ballots accordingly: A vote for Hochul is a vote for Mamdani unleashed.<\/p>\n

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She\u2019s now committed to backing Mamdani\u2019s plays \u2014 and will do even more of it after November, when she no longer has to worry about what the voters think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5954,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion"],"yoast_head":"\nHochul isn't restraining Mamdani \u2014 she's enabling and protecting him - Metro Transit Review<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=5955\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Hochul isn't restraining Mamdani \u2014 she's enabling and protecting him - 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