Statement of NYS Conservative Party Chairman Gerard Kassar on
Governor Hochul’s Latest Political Costume Change
“Governor Kathy Hochul has now completed one of the most cynical metamorphoses in New York political history, and it deserves to be recounted in full.
“As Erie County Clerk, she threatened to call the police on illegal immigrants who showed up seeking driver’s licenses. As a congresswoman from Western New York, she carried an A-rating from the NRA and sold herself to her neighbors as a sensible moderate. When Andrew Cuomo needed regional balance, she became his loyal understudy — seven years of dutiful silence while Albany rotted around her. And now, as governor, she has genuflected before socialist New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani.
“The clerk who defied Eliot Spitzer now presides over sanctuary policies. The NRA’s congresswoman now lectures New Yorkers about firearms. Cuomo’s silent partner now poses as a reformer. And the self-described moderate now shares a ticket, a stage, and an agenda with the most radical mayor in America.
“This is not pragmatism; its adriftness. Ms. Hochul has never stood for anything but Ms. Hochul. New Yorkers deserve a governor who puts principles over politics. This November, they can choose one.”
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August 25, 2026
Statement of NYS Conservative Party Chairman Gerard Kassar on
Governor Hochul’s Latest Political Costume Change
“Governor Kathy Hochul has now completed one of the most cynical metamorphoses in New York political history, and it deserves to be recounted in full.
“As Erie County Clerk, she threatened to call the police on illegal immigrants who showed up seeking driver’s licenses. As a congresswoman from Western New York, she carried an A-rating from the NRA and sold herself to her neighbors as a sensible moderate. When Andrew Cuomo needed regional balance, she became his loyal understudy — seven years of dutiful silence while Albany rotted around her. And now, as governor, she has genuflected before socialist New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani.
“The clerk who defied Eliot Spitzer now presides over sanctuary policies. The NRA’s congresswoman now lectures New Yorkers about firearms. Cuomo’s silent partner now poses as a reformer. And the self-described moderate now shares a ticket, a stage, and an agenda with the most radical mayor in America.
“This is not pragmatism; its adriftness. Ms. Hochul has never stood for anything but Ms. Hochul. New Yorkers deserve a governor who puts principles over politics. This November, they can choose one.”
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