Upstate New Yorkers will doom themselves to misery if they give Gov. Kathy Hochul another term in office.
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they → doom → office
The upstate counties are mired in deep economic distress, struggling with some of the most tragic child poverty rates in the entire nation.
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counties → mire → nation
It’s due to a succession of cynically bad decisions made by politicians, chief among them Hochul and her predecessor, Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
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Blakeman came out swinging Tuesday, attacking Democrats for “taking away upstate people’s right” to benefit from high-growth industries like fracking and AI data centers.
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Blakeman → come → fracking
In 2014, Cuomo robbed the Southern Tier counties of their chance at a booming economy and low energy costs when he banned fracking completely, even though New York state is blessed with one of the largest natural-gas deposits in the world.
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state → rob → world
Hochul doubled down on that mistake by extending Cuomo’s foolishness — and now she’s sabotaging the region’s second chance at prosperity by putting a stranglehold on AI data centers, America’s single largest generator of blue-collar jobs.
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she → double → jobs
Hochul is ahead in the polls statewide, but upstate Blakeman leads her 51% to 43%, according to the latest Marist survey.
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Blakeman → lead → survey
His lead there ought to be a lot larger, considering the pain Democrats have inflicted on the region.
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Democrats → consider → region
Childhood poverty tops 40% in Syracuse, Troy and Binghamton — higher than in The Bronx, and nearly the highest in the nation; in Rochester it’s almost as severe.
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it → top → Rochester
Rural counties like Cattaraugus and Chautauqua along the Pennsylvania border are also in deep distress, according to US Census poverty figures.
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counties → accord → figures
Yet immediately to their south, where hydraulic fracking is permitted, it’s boom time.
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it → permit → south
For over a decade New Yorkers have missed out on fracking jobs that pay $150,000 on average.
And overall the fracking ban has made every Southern Tier household $27,000 poorer, the Heritage Foundation has found.
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Foundation → miss → 150,000
Blakeman vows to reverse the Democrats’ energy destruction.
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Blakeman → vow → destruction
“In Pennsylvania, they’re getting jobs.
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they → get → jobs
They’re prosperous,” he told Hochul on Tuesday.
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he → ’re → Tuesday
“On the Pennsylvania side of the border, they’re driving brand-new Cadillac Escalades.
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they → drive → Escalades
On the New York side of the border, they’re driving around 25-year-old rusted-out pickup trucks — because of your policies.”
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they → drive → policies
Hochul made matters worse in July when she signed a one-year moratorium on large data-center projects for New York, along with a stiff set of renewable-energy requirements that will make it all but impossible for these centers to ever operate here.
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centers → make → requirements
“If we’re saying to them they can’t use natural gas, they’re not going to come here, period,” said Assemblyman Phil Palmesano (R-Schuyler).
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Palmesano → say → gas
Hochul told Blakeman she’s “proud” of her moratorium.
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she → tell → moratorium
She should tell that to upstate New Yorkers desperate for economic opportunities.
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She → tell → opportunities
To them, it’s a wrecking ball: Data centers that were proposed in Erie County, Chautauqua County and Genesee County — all areas of severe economic depression — are now on hold, maybe forever.
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that → ’ → hold
Data centers are now the biggest source of new blue-collar jobs across the United States, far outpacing hiring for housing, manufacturing or health care, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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centers → outpace → Statistics
In the Midwest, some trade unions are abandoning Democratic candidates who oppose AI data centers in favor of their GOP rivals.
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who → abandon → rivals
Blakeman calls Hochul’s ban “crazy,” and he’s right.
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he → call → ban
The Democrats’ plan to solve upstate poverty relies on government handouts, not jobs.
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plan → solve → handouts
In 2021 the Legislature passed the Child Poverty Reduction Act, which established (yet another) government council tasked with cutting the state’s child poverty rate in half over a decade.
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which → pass → decade
The panel’s pathetic suggestions: more housing assistance, more food assistance and more cash assistance to the poor “regardless of where they were born.”
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they → bear → poor
In other words, government cash to buy votes by making more New Yorkers dependent on the Democratic Party — perpetuating child poverty for another generation.
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Yorkers → buy → generation
Upstaters can turn this election around, and chart a new course for themselves, by voting for Blakeman.
Go for the green — money in your bank account and a brighter future for your kids.
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Upstaters → turn → kids
In fact, that message should resonate with voters in every region.
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message → resonate → region
Blakeman cited the depressing fact that New York ranks 50th out of the 50 states in economic outlook, per the “Rich States, Poor States” report: dead last.
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York → cite → report
Hochul is crisscrossing the state with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the socialist jobs-killer who put the kibosh on an Amazon headquarters in Long Island City.
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who → crisscross → City
Blakeman offers voters a stark alternative: He’ll declare New York open for business — and restore opportunity to a state in dire need of it.
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York → offer → it
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