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Post Editorial Board. (2026, October 23). For real change and a better standard of living, vote Bruce Blakeman over hopeless incumbent Kathy Hochul. New York Post. https://nypost.com/2026/10/23/opinion/for-real-change-and-a-better-standard-of-living-vote-bruce-blakeman-over-hopeless-incumbent-kathy-hochul/
Post Editorial Board. “For real change and a better standard of living, vote Bruce Blakeman over hopeless incumbent Kathy Hochul.” New York Post, 23 Oct. 2026, https://nypost.com/2026/10/23/opinion/for-real-change-and-a-better-standard-of-living-vote-bruce-blakeman-over-hopeless-incumbent-kathy-hochul/.
Post Editorial Board. “For real change and a better standard of living, vote Bruce Blakeman over hopeless incumbent Kathy Hochul.” New York Post, October 23, 2026. https://nypost.com/2026/10/23/opinion/for-real-change-and-a-better-standard-of-living-vote-bruce-blakeman-over-hopeless-incumbent-kathy-hochul/.
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Bruce Blakeman, Nassau County Executive, is running against incumbent Governor Kathy Hochul for the position of governor in New York. The editorial board of the New York Post argues that voting for Blakeman would bring real change and a better standard of living compared to Hochul's leadership. According to an Emerson poll cited by the article, only 40% approve of Hochul’s job performance, with 46% disapproving. Hochul took office after Andrew Cuomo resigned due to scandal but has since focused on fundraising rather than governance, according to critics. The article claims that she broke her own promises and allowed radical lawmakers to install a judge who supports their political agenda, particularly in redrawing voting districts favoring Democrats.
Only 40% approve of the job she’s doing, just five points more than President Donald Trump gets in the same Emerson poll; a full 46% disapprove.
Hochul, recall, “won” office by accident, taking over after scandal pushed out Andrew Cuomo — whereupon she immediately adopted a single goal: to hold onto the job and all its lucrative opportunities.
She’s been a real pro at that, one of the most prolific fundraisers the state has ever seen — but hopeless when it comes to governing and legislating, where she’s built a pathetic record of breaking her own promises and surrendering to the far left.
On spending, taxes, crime, education and energy, she’s let the left and the special interests keep feeding at the expense of New York’s future.
Those costs have already trickled down, and now the public’s being crushed not only by higher utility bills but also higher prices generally, fueled by those rising energy costs.
She has repeatedly raised taxes or introduced new ones, like the congestion-pricing tolls and the pied-à-terre “surcharge,” never mind her no-new-taxes vow.
As Cuomo’s No. 2 in 2021, the pair goosed income and corporate taxes by a jaw-dropping $4.3 billion, an all-time record, leaving taxpayers with the nation’s heaviest state-and-local-tax burden.
She’s done nothing to fix the mess left when Albany passed its 2019 housing “reforms,” which reduced the city’s housing supply by making it uneconomical for landlords to rehab regulated units, while pushing up rents on unregulated ones.
She’s been similarly impotent on crime, seeking only tiny fixes to the disastrous criminal-justice “reforms” — and failing to get most of that through.
