On Oct. 4, Gov. Kathy Hochul flew from Albany to New York City on a state-owned airplane. She went to Brooklyn to sign a bill, then in the afternoon held three, back-to-back campaign-related “events” before flying back to Albany in the evening.
Although a major part of the day was dedicated to Hochul winning a full term of office in November’s election, her political campaign did not reimburse taxpayers for any portion of the day’s travel.
During Hochul’s first 45 days in office, on at least three separate days, the governor’s use of state aircraft has raised questions about whether there has been any misuse of taxpayer resources, according to a Times Union review of public records.
During that time, Hochul attended 64 “private events” related to her gubernatorial campaign, including donor meetings and fundraisers, allowing her campaign to raise a record-setting $10 million during her first three months in office.
Amid a whirlwind schedule juggling governmental and campaign activities, Hochul used state-issued aircraft for 45 flights over the first 45 days in office. None of the trips were considered “mixed use” by Hochul’s office — consisting of both government and campaign-related activities — despite a busy campaign schedule on many of the trips. And none of the flight costs for using either a state-owned Beechcraft King Air 250 or a state helicopter were reimbursed to taxpayers by Hochul’s campaign.
David Grandeau, the state’s former top lobbying enforcement official, said Hochul’s campaign should have reimbursed taxpayers for several of the trips.
“She has to reimburse for the non-state business portion of the trips,” Grandeau said.
On Tuesday, the governor’s press secretary, Hazel Crampton-Hays, said the governor’s ethics counsel would re-review the flights at Hochul’s direction.
“Gov. Hochul works around the clock to deliver for New Yorkers and visits all 62 counties every year to hear directly from her constituents,” Crampton-Hays told the Times Union. “The governor is committed to the highest ethical standards and only utilizes state resources, such as the state aircraft, when it is legally and ethically appropriate. In accordance with Gov. Hochul’s commitment to transparency and adhering to the highest ethical standards, the governor has directed her ethics counsel to re-review all aircraft usage and make any appropriate reimbursements.”
On Wednesday, during her first State of the State address, Hochul unveiled a plan for ethics reform, while also acknowledging that politicians might still “stumble and make mistakes once in awhile.”
On her official government website, Hochul’s office recently posted schedules showing Hochul’s government meetings and the attendees between her inauguration on Aug. 24 and through Oct. 9. The schedules detail when and where Hochul took flights, and in all 45 cases, it indicates the flights were fully funded by taxpayers. The schedules also list the myriad “private events” related to her campaign, though no other details are included beyond the times the events occurred.
Crampton-Hays said the “private events” included campaign fundraisers, political meetings, political events for other candidates and groups, or any other event that the “governor attends primarily in a political capacity.”
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I never thought I would miss Bloomberg until I saw deblasio. I also never thought I would miss Cuomo until I saw this stupid bitch hochul.
Her eyebrows are ready for liftoff !
Airhead and Baldy seem overly concerned about their looks don't you think ?
They both seem to lack substance and common sense.
"To destroy this invisible Government, to dissolve the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day."
The 1912 Progressive Party Bull Moose Party
AS LONG AS THEY ARE RICH, THEY DONT CARE.
“She has to reimburse for the non-state business portion of the trips,” Grandeau said.
Sure, good luck with that. None of the assholes ever do.
And she'll get re-elected in November. She'll take that as a "Mandate" and really commence fucking us over, wise up sheeple....
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Elect a clown..expect a circus!
Following is a statement that completely explains the socially engineered dupe to keep empowered idiots of tyranny in public office in New York State government. It's too late to halt the colonization and the invasion of willfully, monstrously failed leadership. The masses of DNC enablers have chosen to anoint a corrupt, incompetent, lawless, racist mayor and to accept an unelected governor with ambitions of a legitimate second term, which leaves our already ravaged and tonsured state in a total state of collapse and ruination, trickled down from the top corridors of power, all of which has completely betrayed and corrupted all previously functioning levels of a society that no longer demands accountability in the rogue and lawless State of New York:
❝The idiots take over in the final days of crumbling civilizations. Idiot generals wage endless, unwinnable wars that bankrupt the nation. Idiot economists call for reducing taxes for corporations and the rich, while cutting social service programs for the poor. They project economic growth on the basis of myth. Idiot industrialists poison the water, the soil and the air, slash jobs and depress wages. Idiot bankers gamble on self-created financial bubbles. Idiot journalists and public intellectuals pretend that despotism is democracy. Idiot intelligence operatives orchestrate the overthrow of foreign governments to create lawless enclaves that give rise to enraged fanatics. Idiot professors, 'experts,' and 'specialists' busy themselves with unintelligible jargon and arcane theory that buttresses the policies of the rulers. Idiot entertainers and producers create lurid spectacles of sex, gore and fantasy.
There is a familiar checklist for extinction and we are ticking off every item on it.
The idiots know only one word—'more.' They are unencumbered by common sense. They hoard wealth and resources until workers cannot make a living and the infrastructure collapses. They live in privileged compounds. They see the state as a projection of their vanity. The Roman, Mayan, French, Hapsburg, Ottoman, Romanov, Wilhelmine, Pahlavi and Soviet dynasties ALL crumbled because of the audacious whims and intolerant extremist obsessions of ruling idiots, ALL of whom SO ORDERED laws that they created to willfully exploit society to obscenely enrich themselves by UNJUST ENRICHMENT.❞ —Excerpt from America: 'The Farewell Tour,' Chris Hedges
https://patch.com/new-york/smithtown/more-people-leaving-new-york-fewer-moving-study?utm
The shape shifter who believes Vaccine ID is progressive and Voter ID is racist.
Typical communist scum.
@"Typical communist scum" Our "leaders" are rewarding criminal behavior in cities across the country.
We’re watching Western Civilization collapse in real time.
Following is a statement that completely explains the socially engineered dupe to keep empowered idiots of tyranny in public office in New York State government. It's too late to halt the colonization and the invasion of willfully, monstrously failed leadership. The masses of DNC enablers have chosen to anoint a corrupt, incompetent, lawless, racist mayor and to accept an unelected governor with ambitions of a legitimate second term, which leaves our already ravaged and tonsured state in a total state of collapse and ruination, trickled down from the top corridors of power, all of which has completely betrayed and corrupted all previously functioning levels of a society that no longer demands accountability in the rogue and lawless State of New York:
❝The idiots take over in the final days of crumbling civilizations. Idiot generals wage endless, unwinnable wars that bankrupt the nation. Idiot economists call for reducing taxes for corporations and the rich, while cutting social service programs for the poor. They project economic growth on the basis of myth. Idiot industrialists poison the water, the soil and the air, slash jobs and depress wages. Idiot bankers gamble on self-created financial bubbles. Idiot journalists and public intellectuals pretend that despotism is democracy. Idiot intelligence operatives orchestrate the overthrow of foreign governments to create lawless enclaves that give rise to enraged fanatics. Idiot professors, 'experts,' and 'specialists' busy themselves with unintelligible jargon and arcane theory that buttresses the policies of the rulers. Idiot entertainers and producers create lurid spectacles of sex, gore and fantasy.
There is a familiar checklist for extinction and we are ticking off every item on it.
The idiots know only one word—'more.' They are unencumbered by common sense. They hoard wealth and resources until workers cannot make a living and the infrastructure collapses. They live in privileged compounds. They see the state as a projection of their vanity. The Roman, Mayan, French, Hapsburg, Ottoman, Romanov, Wilhelmine, Pahlavi and Soviet dynasties ALL crumbled because of the audacious whims and intolerant extremist obsessions of ruling idiots, ALL of whom SO ORDERED laws that they created to willfully exploit society to obscenely enrich themselves by UNJUST ENRICHMENT.❞ —Excerpt from America: 'The Farewell Tour,' Chris Hedges
https://patch.com/new-york/smithtown/more-people-leaving-new-york-fewer-moving-study?utm
Our "leaders" are rewarding criminal behavior in cities across the country.
Is called professional courtesy, these "leaders" are criminals themselves.
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