NEW YORK — In rather less than a month, voters will determine the New York governor’s race, which is taking up a brand new depth as Democrat Kathy Hochul and Republican Lee Zeldin race towards the end line.
Some would possibly name it a “Rose Garden strategy,” however Hochul calls it being governor. She was capable of take full benefit of the powers of incumbency by taking motion on a difficulty that’s central to her election marketing campaign, CBS2’s Marcia Kramer reported.
“That is the subsequent cease on the journey to let the nation know that that is the state of New York and we’ll defend a girls’s proper to a protected and authorized abortion,” Hochul mentioned Wednesday.
The governor did not need to spend a dime of her well-stocked marketing campaign conflict chest to focus on a difficulty she hopes will win over voters in her battle with Zeldin — her assist for abortion rights and his opposition.
In a well-timed announcement, Hochul awarded $13 million to abortion clinics in New York to develop entry to providers.
“There was a darkish pall solid over our nation within the aftermath of the overturning of Roe v. Wade,” Hochul mentioned.
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Whereas Hochul basked within the powers of incumbency, challenger Zeldin stood with present and former regulation enforcement officers and relations of slain Larchmont cop Arthur Dematte to protest a state parole board resolution to launch the person who killed him, Anthony Blanks.
Zeldin blamed the legal justice insurance policies of the Hochul administration.
“Dozens of cop killers have been launched by this parole board, dozens, and if we do not get up and do one thing about it, the actual fact is that dozens extra shall be launched sooner or later,” Zeldin mentioned.
The tough-on-crime Republican challenger additionally slammed state insurance policies that allowed an upstate SUNY campus to ask a Black Panther convicted of killing two cops to talk at an April symposium.
“They really present a platform for cop killers to return preach to college students, claiming that they’re a political prisoner,” Zeldin mentioned.
However as he took the exhausting line stance, Zeldin was hit over his Jan. 6 stance in an advert funded by a political motion committee. It was narrated by the brother of Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, who was killed within the Capitol riots.
“Lee Zeldin refused to assist an investigation into the violence in opposition to the police. He did not stand behind our injured cops and he did not stand behind my brother, Brian,” the advert says.
Zeldin refused to touch upon the advert on Wednesday.
