STATEMENT FROM NEW YORK STATE CONSERVATIVE PARTY CHAIRMAN GERARD KASSAR
“Governor Kathy Hochul blew a lot of smoke at New Yorkers during her budget address in Albany today, but the chart above reflects the reality of her tenure as New York’s liberal chief executive. In just a few short years, Mrs. Hochul has ballooned our state budget by nearly 40%. Now, she has the audacity to talk about ‘affordability’, as though she and her progressive colleagues aren’t the ones responsible for driving more than a million New Yorkers to other states.
“The data doesn’t lie. New York is unaffordable because Kathy Hochul continues to make it that way. Her monstrous new state budget proposal is par for the course. It will continue New York’s long, slow decline into mediocrity and unaffordability. She needs to go.”
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January 20, 2026
NEW YORK’S UNAFFORDABLE GOVERNOR
STATEMENT FROM NEW YORK STATE CONSERVATIVE PARTY CHAIRMAN GERARD KASSAR
“Governor Kathy Hochul blew a lot of smoke at New Yorkers during her budget address in Albany today, but the chart above reflects the reality of her tenure as New York’s liberal chief executive. In just a few short years, Mrs. Hochul has ballooned our state budget by nearly 40%. Now, she has the audacity to talk about ‘affordability’, as though she and her progressive colleagues aren’t the ones responsible for driving more than a million New Yorkers to other states.
“The data doesn’t lie. New York is unaffordable because Kathy Hochul continues to make it that way. Her monstrous new state budget proposal is par for the course. It will continue New York’s long, slow decline into mediocrity and unaffordability. She needs to go.”
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