One damning picture was the final nail in the coffin for Kathy Hochul
New York Governor Kathy Hochul is in a world of trouble.
There may be no climbing out of this hole.
And one damning picture is the final nail in the coffin for Kathy Hochul.
A recent Siena College poll found just 33 percent of New Yorkers would vote to re-elect Democrat Governor Kathy Hochul.
New Yorkers keep sending the message that they are tired of Hochul’s soft on crime policies.
Hochul won re-election by a closer than expected six points in 2022.
Hochul didn’t change course.
Then New York State shifted ten points to the right in the 2024 Presidential election.
Voters are clearly sick of criminals running rampant on the streets.
And that anger is only sure to hit a fever pitch after Hochul’s latest fiasco.
Hochul’s social media team pre-scheduled a post on X for December 22 about all the steps she took to ensure the safety of New Yorkers on the subway.
In March, I took action to make our subways safer for the millions of people who take the trains each day.
Since deploying the @NationalGuardNY to support @NYPDnews and @MTA safety efforts and adding cameras to all subway cars, crime is going down, and ridership is going up. pic.twitter.com/T7uRxx9nIO
— Governor Kathy Hochul (@GovKathyHochul) December 22, 2024
Hochul’s boasting looked offensive, as hours later police arrested an illegal alien from Guatemala for allegedly lighting a woman on fire while she slept on a subway car.
New York City Police Department Commissioner Jessica Tisch described the ghastly details of the murder to reporters.
“As the train pulled into the station, the suspect calmly walked up to the victim, who was in a seated position at the end of a subway car … and used what we believe to be a lighter to ignite the victim’s clothing, which became fully engulfed in a matter of seconds,” Tisch told reporters.
No one did anything to stop this act of madness.
Not after Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg tried to jail Daniel Penny for saving the lives of passengers from violent career criminal Jordan Neely.
Police responded to the incident at a later stop where the woman’s charred corpse was still on fire.
Body cam footage showed a responding officer encountering the suspect who was seated on a bench ghoulishly watching the woman burn.
“Do me a favor? Walk down there,” the officer said to the suspect. “I need this space cleared up.”
Commissioner Tisch said the officer had no idea he encountered the man police would later arrest for the innocent woman’s murder.
“Unbeknownst to the officers who responded, the suspect had stayed on the scene and was seated on a bench on the platform just outside the train car,” Tisch stated.
But Tisch did reveal that the body cam footage provided a clear look at the suspects face.
“The body-worn cameras on the responding officers produced a very clear, detailed look at the killer,” Tisch continued.
That image came in handy as teenagers spotted the illegal alien at a different subway stop and contacted police who took the suspect into custody.
New York Congressman Ritchie Torres isn’t making any secret about his intentions to challenge Governor Hochul in the primary election.
Torress already spent months taking aim at Hochul allowing pro-Hamas mobs to terrorize Jewish students on the campuses of New York colleges and universities.
Hochul’s tone deaf social media post and the horrific killing on the subway provided Torres a fresh opening to blast Hochul’s failed leadership of the Empire State.
“Two hours ago, Kathy Hochul took a victory lap for making subways “safer.” She congratulates herself on the same day two subway riders were stabbed in Queens (one in the face and one in the chest) and another was barbarically burned alive. Has there ever been a more tone-deaf Governor in the history of New York?” Torres wrote on X.
