Kathy Hochul wants to break law to change voting – Latest News
Gov. Kathy Hochul is on a mission . . . to show she will be able to spew blarney with the best.
“Children are starving,” Hochul emoted to Rachel Maddow on Monday; that’s why she’ll “fight fire with fire” by redrawing New York’s House districts to counteract Texas’ redistricting plan — which she calls a “declaration of war on the American people.”
Utter hogwash: The gov claims children are “starving” as a result of Republicans cut SNAP (food stamp) advantages; in reality, the expanded work necessities (for some recipients) received’t kick in till 2027 on the soonest — it’s one other phony “famine.”
The string of nonstop lies started with Hochul’s pledge in a Houston Chronicle column to save “our democracy” by gerrymandering New York’s congressional map to kill Republican-leaning seats if Texas GOP lawmakers go forward with their Democrat-reducing plan.
Yet the gov can’t get New York redistricted that fast: The state Constitution not solely explicitly forbids (nakedly) partisan map-drawing, it additionally orders redistricting get achieved on the flip of the last decade.
As it’s, the state simply redrew its maps final 12 months after long courtroom battles prompted by state Democrats’ 2021 drive to kill GOP districts.
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Even after Dems packed the state’s high courtroom, the justices will discover it arduous to swallow Hochul ordering up a new map simply because she’s modified her thoughts in regards to the one she signed into law a 12 months in the past.
So she’d need to get the state Constitution amended first — and that’s at the very least a two-year course of that she’d have to begin by calling a particular session for the reason that Legislature completed for the 12 months months in the past.
Hochul’s simply leaping on the Democrat outrage wagon, together with Govs. Gavin Newsom and J.B. Pritzker.
Yet, in contrast to these two blowhards, Hochul isn’t even eyeing a 2028 presidential run, so why hassle with this bull?
Our best guess: She figures Democrats are so deep in denial that they’ll activate her if she doesn’t be a part of within the fibbing.
Which prompts the query: Who’s more pathetic right here — Hochul or her complete celebration?
