WASHINGTON — Upstate Rep. Elise Stefanik told The Post on Monday that House Republicans can have to analyze Gov. Kathy Hochul and the actions of her administration next 12 months if the Empire State’s Democrat-led legislature won’t do it.
“She is attempting to buy the election and he or she’s using Recent York’s taxpayer dollars to do it,” Stefanik said in an interview ahead of the Nov. 8 midterms, by which Republicans are favored to retake the House of Representatives.
Stefanik, the third-ranking House Republican, pointed to a virtually $1 billion slush fund for administrative allocation that was added to the state budget this past summer by Hochul and her fellow Democrats.
She also cited a Hochul donor linked to $300,000 in campaign contributions who was awarded $637 million in state business for rapid COVID-19 tests that were twice the fee of those from other vendors.
“It’s Cuomo 2.0 — even worse,” Stefanik said.
“Albany has really turn out to be a cesspool of corruption run by Democrats, and I feel she is attempting to buy this election. I feel it’s considered one of the various explanation why once I arise at events and call her ‘corrupt Kathy Hochul’, people agree.”
Stefanik, who represents Recent York’s vast northernmost congressional district, previously led a push to analyze former Gov. Andrew Cuomo after he ordered nursing homes to take COVID-19 patients in March 2020 after which covered up the death count. She was also the primary member of Congress to demand Cuomo’s resignation last 12 months over sexual harassment allegations, which he ultimately did in August of last 12 months.
“We’ve seen that Albany Democrats have refused to do any style of investigation — an actual investigation — into the nursing home crisis, into the book deal, which after all was Gov. Cuomo profiting off of fudging the numbers —he personally profited off of hiding those numbers of nursing home deaths — and the most important ethics issues that Kathy Hochul is under at once,” Stefanik said. “If Albany Democrats refuse to do it, we are going to and we should always on the federal level.”
Hochul holds a consistent a polling edge over Republican Rep. Lee Zeldin heading into next month’s election, by which Cuomo’s former lieutenant governor will seek a full term. In response to the RealClearPolitics average of recent polls, Hochul leads Zeldin by 5.3 percentage points.
But Stefanik said Monday that she thinks Zeldin could rating an upset.
“One in every of the largest lines along with firing Nancy Pelosi is once I say ‘Fire Kathy Hochul.’ It’s huge rounds of applause,” she said. “So I feel Lee Zeldin has considered one of our greatest possibilities in a generation to win the governor’s mansion.
“Corruption along with crime along with just all of the bad policies in Recent York state make it ripe for the picking for Republicans.”
WASHINGTON — Upstate Rep. Elise Stefanik told The Post on Monday that House Republicans can have to analyze Gov. Kathy Hochul and the actions of her administration next 12 months if the Empire State’s Democrat-led legislature won’t do it.
“She is attempting to buy the election and he or she’s using Recent York’s taxpayer dollars to do it,” Stefanik said in an interview ahead of the Nov. 8 midterms, by which Republicans are favored to retake the House of Representatives.
Stefanik, the third-ranking House Republican, pointed to a virtually $1 billion slush fund for administrative allocation that was added to the state budget this past summer by Hochul and her fellow Democrats.
She also cited a Hochul donor linked to $300,000 in campaign contributions who was awarded $637 million in state business for rapid COVID-19 tests that were twice the fee of those from other vendors.
“It’s Cuomo 2.0 — even worse,” Stefanik said.
“Albany has really turn out to be a cesspool of corruption run by Democrats, and I feel she is attempting to buy this election. I feel it’s considered one of the various explanation why once I arise at events and call her ‘corrupt Kathy Hochul’, people agree.”
Stefanik, who represents Recent York’s vast northernmost congressional district, previously led a push to analyze former Gov. Andrew Cuomo after he ordered nursing homes to take COVID-19 patients in March 2020 after which covered up the death count. She was also the primary member of Congress to demand Cuomo’s resignation last 12 months over sexual harassment allegations, which he ultimately did in August of last 12 months.
“We’ve seen that Albany Democrats have refused to do any style of investigation — an actual investigation — into the nursing home crisis, into the book deal, which after all was Gov. Cuomo profiting off of fudging the numbers —he personally profited off of hiding those numbers of nursing home deaths — and the most important ethics issues that Kathy Hochul is under at once,” Stefanik said. “If Albany Democrats refuse to do it, we are going to and we should always on the federal level.”
Hochul holds a consistent a polling edge over Republican Rep. Lee Zeldin heading into next month’s election, by which Cuomo’s former lieutenant governor will seek a full term. In response to the RealClearPolitics average of recent polls, Hochul leads Zeldin by 5.3 percentage points.
But Stefanik said Monday that she thinks Zeldin could rating an upset.
“One in every of the largest lines along with firing Nancy Pelosi is once I say ‘Fire Kathy Hochul.’ It’s huge rounds of applause,” she said. “So I feel Lee Zeldin has considered one of our greatest possibilities in a generation to win the governor’s mansion.
“Corruption along with crime along with just all of the bad policies in Recent York state make it ripe for the picking for Republicans.”
