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Gov. Kathy Hochul is bizarrely slamming Rep. Mike Lawler for being unable to stand up to his own celebration, when that shoe suits a heck of a lot higher on her foot.
She’s nominally mocking the Hudson Valley Republican’s push to ban mid-decade House redistricting and rein in gerrymandering, however weirdly additionally claimed he had “caved to “Trump on SALT,” and adopted up by scoffing that Lawler “has no power.”
What hogwash: Lawler in actual fact bought the GOP to cave to him (and the remaining of the state’s Republican delegation) on SALT, managing to spice up the “ceiling” on the State And Local Tax deduction from $10,000 to $40,000 (for incomes below $500,000) — a enormous gain for his constituents in defiance of GOP orthodoxy.
And this, regardless of President Donald Trump’s warning that Lawler needed to “back off.”
Note, too, that New York Democrats couldn’t get SALT addressed when their celebration managed the White House and Congress in 2021-2.
Which means that Lawler wields loads of energy within the GOP — more than, say, Long Island Rep. Tom Suozzi (who talked SALT nonstop in these years) does amongst Dems.
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Heck, more than Sen. Chuck Schumer, too . . . until Schumer simply didn’t prioritize making good on his vows to repair SALT.
For that matter, we’ve hassle pondering of something Hochul received for New York when Democrats dominated Washington.
As for Lawler’s bid to rein in gerrymandering, a response to Texas’ drive to redraw its House map this yr and to the noise from Hochul and different Dems about searching for to do the identical: No, he most likely received’t get rapid motion, however don’t guess towards him in the long term.
Whereas Hochul can’t probably ship anytime quickly on her own threats to “fight fire with fire” by gerrymandering right here in New York — because it’d require amending the state Constitution, which is a two-year course of.
Nor does she convey a shred of precept to the battle: She was all aboard state Democrats’ bid to gerrymander Republicans into oblivion in 2022, and fortunately performed together with the district-redrawing NY Dems did pull off final yr, serving to them claw a number of seats from the GOP final November.
By the way in which, the one invoice Hochul managed to go during her time within the House . . . ensured that garments deserted at airport-security checkpoints could be donated to charity.
Nor has she proven a lot potential as gov to have her means with the state Legislature.
Indeed, its progressives routinely outright bully her, together with with the unprecedented 2023 rejection of Justice Hector LaSalle, her eminently certified nominee to turn out to be the state’s chief choose.
She’s additionally been unable to win critical adjustments to the Legislature’s disastrous criminal-justice reforms, and has even gone together with some new ones.
Standing up to your celebration? Lawler mocked MAGA Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene because the “Jewish space laser lady” and efficiently pushed the expulsion of disgraced Republican liar Rep. George Santos.
Hochul doesn’t even dare denounce Zohran Mamdani because the extremist he clearly is, and even makes excuses for him.
Which makes it all of the more pathetic that she’s taking pictures at Lawler, despite the fact that he has handed on his own run for governor subsequent yr.
Maybe the governor is just jealous that Mike Lawler is the principled, efficient average she only pretends to be?
