I'm looking at "Kathy Hochul Is the Best Choice for Democrats in the June 28 Primary." I can't copy the photographs, so I'll just copy the captions and tell you the photos all feel desolate to me:
1. "BUFFALO The sole room where abortions are performed, left, and one of several natural birthing rooms at Buffalo Women Services, which provides obstetric, gynecological and abortion services. The future of abortion access is one of the major issues on the ballot in New York State’s Democratic primary for governor on June 28." (We see the open doors to 2 side-by-side dimly lit rooms, one with a big bathtub. )
2. "BUFFALO An impromptu memorial outside Tops Friendly Market, the site of a racist mass shooting on May 14 that resulted in the death of 10 Black residents. Ms. Hochul, who once boasted an A rating from the National Rifle Association for her legislative record, now embraces gun safety regulations." (Flowers and crumpled American flags lie on the sidewalk right next to a storm sewer.)
3. "MOUNT VERNON, N.Y. A new high-density residential building near a Metro North train station, surrounded by many single-family homes" (a very intrusive high-rise apartment building painted with insultingly jolly colors) and "MOUNT VERNON Single-family homes near the end of the No. 2 subway line" (a weedy, seedy residential street with a lone figure, seen from the back, who seems selected to represent poor black people).
4. "MANHATTAN A rider exits the 34th Street-Herald Square subway station. Recent high-profile crimes on the subway and elsewhere, plus coronavirus variants, have many office workers still staying home." (Another lone figure seen from the back, disappearing around the curve in a dilapidated hallway. This one represents a woman in danger.).
5. "CAIRO, N.Y. Tattered American flags. New York, in this moment, requires a governor who is committed to fighting for our rights and freedoms, and the editorial board endorses Kathy Hochul." (Faded, frayed American flags poking out of unmowed weeds by a generic 2-lane highway.)
I haven't read the text of the editorial, only these captions, as I marveled over the crazy collection of photographs. Hochul is the current governor! You made the state look terrible. Yet voters are supposed to want more of the same. I guess change only risks making things worse. Be grateful for another serving of sadness stew, New Yorkers.
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Be grateful for another serving of sadness stew, New Yorkers.
My wife and I are leaving NY approximately half a nanosecond after she retires in two years.
New Yorkers know what a sad place New York has become under Democratic/Progressive control, with the money going to line the pockets of con artists and shills like De Blasio's wife.
COVID taught me that (many) people in the blue states have come to enjoy/accept permanent anxiety and discomfort. This includes threats to the environment, threats from Russia, threats to abortion access, threats from crime/guns, threats from a vanishingly small number of white supremacists, threats to transgendered folks, threats of false accusations against some Muslims, threats of law enforcement and rules toward migrants/immigrants, and a never-ending yesterday pandemic.
When left-ideal governments in Scandinavia abandoned COVID rules rapidly in early 2022...USA blue states stuck to their comfortable masked fear bubble. To paraphrase Obama: "Some on the left cling to their fears, anxieties, and paranoias." In the words of FDR "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
It's hard to play offense when you are consumed by defense. Deadenders. Yin is fading, yang is growing.
Upstate is their colony. They want to keep it, but don't care much what goes on up there, so long as the empire remains intact.
And please, don't let "gun safety regulation" become the "pro-choice" euphemism of the gun control debate.
From the article: "In New York State’s Democratic primary election for governor on June 28, some of the protections and freedoms ..... and, as President Franklin Roosevelt once said, the freedom from want — want for affordable housing, strong education, a sustainable climate, a stable economic future, among so much more."
Well, the Commie-Pinko dems have been driving this bus for years. Federally subsidized housing creates crime infested projects, union thugs destroying public schools (test scores anyone?), rolling blackouts, economic collapse on the horizon. The dems remain in denial as to the cause of this chaos.
Sure if your are okay with Progressives shoving their policies down your throat. Who cares about the rampant crimes being committed. We have to save abortion.
We must kill the babies.
The point of the Mount Vernon vignette seems to be that middle class folks will not be permitted to escape the crime and squalor of NYC, because it is going to be forcibly injected into the suburbs whether they like it or not.
The Democrats have broken the fundamental bargain that operated in NYC for almost 30 years. That bargain was that city residents don’t get to have gun rights or the right to self-defense, but the NYPD will police aggressively and comprehensively. Now the NYPD policing a lot less, and the prosecutors don’t prosecute the people the cops do catch. It will be interesting to see what happens now that the state won’t uphold its side of this somewhat Faustian bargain.
"You made the state look terrible. Yet voters are supposed to want more of the same . . . Be grateful for another serving of sadness stew, New Yorkers."
Good call, Althouse. It is the Dem pitch. The thing is, they like sadness stew. Considering that their climate change plans cannot be realized without degrading the quality of life, they want more of it. The question for Althouse and the Althouses of America is: do you?
The text Althouse avoided is pretty sad too, ripe for a fisking.
"Ms. Hochul also needs to explain more directly what she would do to improve the state’s economic fortunes"
Translation: as far as we can tell, H has no earthly idea about how to improve the economy, but we endorse her anyway.
"The lack of a clear economic message has become a chronic problem for Democrats in state and national elections."
Actually, the economic message is quite clear: growth is bad, energy needs to be more expensive, reduce your consumption, suffering is good for the planet.
"Ms. Hochul has the opportunity to draw a clear contrast with Republicans by emphasizing the role that government can play in improving New Yorkers’ quality of life and in increasing access to opportunity."
She has the opportunity to show how government can increase opportunity. After decades of that same old same old, you'd think Dems would have figured that out--or could it be that their emphasis is all wrong to begin with?
"We still hope to see more from her. Ms. Hochul’s budget process could be more transparent. Her reliance on large donations, particularly from the real estate industry, is dispiritingly familiar. We had questions about the last-minute appearance in the state budget of taxpayer funds for a new stadium in Buffalo. Her husband works for a company that provides concessions at the existing stadium. “We are very, very, very careful about not having any involvement or engagement or financial gain that comes from anything involved here,” she said in response to our questions about this possible conflict of interest."
IOW, H is just a corrupt as all the other NY Dems, but we'll endorse her anyway.
"States and cities also have to make up for inaction on climate change at the federal level."
Huh? Joe has been quite active shutting down energy production. NY has already done a lot to limit energy supplies. How much more can Dems do to undermine the American way of life?
" The future of abortion access is one of the major issues on the ballot in New York..."
In what way? Is there any chance above zero that abortion could be outlawed in New York?
Ah, a lugubrious choice of photos. Learn something new every day at Althouse. I bet the NYT thinks it is highbrow. I'll leave "it" undefined, because it works for New York, the NYT, Hochul, and so much more.
If the NYT made NY look like shit, just think what it really looks like...
Mrs. Dink and I travelled to Staten Island three times after Hurricane Sandy to assist in various ways, including going door-to-door in the housing projects. I told my lovely spouse those days are long gone.
Shorter endorsement...she kinda sucks but she has D after her name so, of course, we endorse her.
Narrator: Kathy Hochul is not the best choice.
Humperdink makes an interesting point. I remember after 9/11 hundreds and possibly thousands of volunteer firefighters, contraction people and hunters with rescue dogs came to NYC to help deal with the destruction and rubble. These are the exact same people that NY demonizes now because of their pickup trucks, lack of elite college and guns.
My guess is that NY is on it's own next time around.
Consider that it was impossible to make the state look good.
"The lack of a clear economic message has become a chronic problem for Democrats in state and national elections."
Actually, the economic message is quite clear: growth is bad, energy needs to be more expensive, reduce your consumption, suffering is good for the planet.
Plus, of course, "You will own nothing and be happy."
She's the governor the state deserves. Gooder and harder
Like RMc I'm leaving NY with no regrets in about 2 years. As a lifetime New Yorker who grew up downstate but lived most of my adult life upstate, I know what there is to like and dislike about this state. The latter list has grown well out of proportion to the former. I've gritted my teeth the last 15 years but stuck it out to avoid moving my school aged children and to have a stable career situation but that's all winding down now as retirement approaches.
I've traveled on vacations in recent years to destinations looking for places more amenable to retirees and conservatives. I've found that its almost all of them. I've got a target rich environment because it's hard, really hard, to screw up a state by going as far left as this one has.
I'm rooting for New york state to improve. We need to keep New Yorkers in New York.
Evil monster, elected by scum in the big city, imposes a reign of terror and despair on the rest of the state. Pretty common situation.
I'm looking at "Kathy Hochul Is the Best Choice for Democrats in the June 28 Primary."
Wow, that's a damning condemnation of NY politics
:1. "BUFFALO The sole room where abortions are performed, left, and one of several natural birthing rooms at Buffalo Women Services, which provides obstetric, gynecological and abortion services. The future of abortion access is one of the major issues on the ballot in New York State’s Democratic primary for governor on June
1: So they're upset that there are more spaces for giving birth / getting OBGYM exams than there is for having an abortion?
Exactly how many abortions do they think the average woman should have?
2: How can "the future of abortion access" be on the NY ballot? Is there some chance that NY will NOT elect abortion extremists to a majority at all levels?
2: Ms. Hochul, who once boasted an A rating from the National Rifle Association for her legislative record, now embraces gun safety regulations."
But she's still "the Best Choice for Democrats"? Interesting
Hochul is the current governor! You made the state look terrible. Yet voters are supposed to want more of the same. I guess change only risks making things worse. Be grateful for another serving of sadness stew, New Yorkers.
Life sucks in NY! Vote Hochul, for more of the same!
Given that Biden* is President, I guess even Democrats understand that "not getting worse" is the best we can currently hope for
My part of Upstate (the Finger Lakes) is beautiful, and only mildly depressed - but would I stay past retirement? No.
Diversity, Inequity, and Exclusion (DIE). Democrat gerrymandering to steer the vote. Criminal equity and inclusion. Progressive prices. Reproductive rites for social, redistributive, clinical, and fair weather causes. Throw another baby on the barbie, it's over.
Looking over the comments in the NYT editorial there's a substantial number (probably a majority) who don't like the way Houchel has performed so far. For example:
The Times also supported Eliot Spitzer and Andrew Cuomo. For the office of Governor. And Andrew Weiner for Mayor. And Bill De Blasio. And Chuck Schumer. And Eric Schneiderman.
Oh yeah. This is the group you ought to listen to on Democrat options.
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Gov. Hochul built into the most recent budget money for illegal immigrants over the age of 65 to receive free healthcare. Since the federal government won't pay for illegal immigrants, New York State residents will foot the estimated $200 million bill.
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The NYTimes got this completely wrong. Hochul is a career political hack who is not acting in the best interest on New Yorkers. Committing govt funds for the new Buffalo stadium that her husband worked for as a lobbyist is a prime example of putting her interests ahead of her constituents. Not recalling the disgraceful Manhattan DA Bragg who said on day one he wouldn’t do his job is strike number two. And picking a lieutenant governor charged with fraud and bribery shows her complete lack of judgment, strike three. All this while in office for less than 9 months is quite a feat. If this is the best Dems can offer, they don’t deserve to be in office.
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So, the eventual Republican nominee for Governor has a chance to win...as long as it's not
(the idiot) Andrew Giuliani.
The symbolism in the photos is telling. Certainly the crumpled American flag on the ground next to the gutter says something about America in jeopardy. But what really caught my eye was the highly colorful high rise residence next to the drab looking single family homes. It's not hard to see what kind of housing the Times favors and no longer favors.
RMc said...
My wife and I are leaving NY approximately half a nanosecond after she retires in two years.
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if it is possible why not Retire from Home away already?
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