Republican nominee for New York governor Bruce Blakeman savaged Gov. Kathy Hochul in an exclusive, 20-minute interview with The Post’s Rich Calderthis week, branding her a Mamdani “tool.”
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The 71-year-old Nassau County Executive vowed to reverse the damage the left has done, using political muscle to force the state Legislature and City Hall to kill congestion pricing, flood the streets with cops, and slash income taxes.
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left → vow → taxes
He also revealed his behind-the-scenes play to bring the New York Jets back to Long Island.
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During Tuesday’s debate,Gov. Hochul brought up President Trump’s name roughly 20 times . . . trying to tie his unpopularity in Democratic New York State – especially NYC – to you.
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Hochul → bring → you
What are you doing to ensure this “Trump the Boogeyman” strategy fails?
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strategy → do → What
Well, I have a history of not taking orders from anybody and bucking my party when I thought they were wrong.
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He has supported me, and I have supported him.
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But the decisions that I make will be decisions made solely in what I feel is in the best interest of New Yorkers.
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Kathy Hochul has nothing else to talk about but Donald Trump because she has a record of failure and misery with high taxes, high utility bills, and lawlessness in our community.
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she → have → community
So you feel she is using Trump to shift focus away from criticism she’s facing over her own policies?
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she → feel → policies
You don’t see anything that she puts out in this campaign about her record, and she doesn’t attack my record because it’s impossible to attack a record where I cut taxes, haven’t raised taxes one penny in five years, seven bond upgrades, four budget surpluses, and US News & World Report said I have the safest county in America.
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Q: You’ve repeatedly said you plan to cut New York’s utility bills in half, if governor.
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you → say → half
I know you’ve accused Hochul of driving up bills through a “green energy scam” and vowed to let New York produce more gas through fracking, but do you have a clear plan for cutting bills that drastically?
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Well, let’s take Pennsylvania, for example.
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Pennsylvania doesn’t have the green energy scam, and they allow for the extraction of natural gas, and their bills are more than 50% less than New York.
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bills → have → York
So, my strategy is as follows: get rid of the green energy scam; increase the supply of energy, including natural gas.
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strategy → follow → gas
By increasing the supply, we will be able to bring down utility costs to half of what they are now.
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Why do you feel the governor, who calls herself a moderate Democrat, is so leery to disavow socialist NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani on controversial remarks and stances?
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who → feel → remarks
A: Well, I wouldn’t call her moderate.
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I → call → her
She’s an extremist.
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She → ’ → ?
I don’t care what she calls herself, but let’s look at her record.
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That’s extreme.
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That’s extreme.
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Backing Zohran Mamdani, who is antisemitic, anti-Christian, and anti-American.
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That’s extreme.
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Campaigning with AOC [Rep. Alexandia Ocasio-Cortez], who’s part of the hate America crowd in the Democratic Party.
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That’s extreme.
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So, I think her record is one of being an extreme, polarizing leader in our state.
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I want to be a unifier, unite people with the common purpose of making it more affordable and safer to live in New York.
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it → want → York
In January, you told me the governor’s race would be an existential battle to save New York’s soul from socialism?
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race → tell → socialism
Is that something you still agree with?
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I think it is more urgent now than ever.
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When I spoke to you in January, Zohran Mamdani had just taken office.
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And now we’ve seen that the policies he wants to impose in New York City, and the policies that Kathy Hochul wants to impose in New York State, are policies that will ruin our economy and create unsafe communities.
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I think Hochul is a useful tool of the socialist Democratic, anti-American movement in her party and that she is now taking orders from Zohran Mamdani, who clearly is the Democratic Party leader.
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who → think → Mamdani
How are you going to stop the mass exodus of New Yorkers moving to Florida and other parts of the United States?
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you → go → States
A: The same way I did in my county.
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I → do → county
People are moving into my county — not out of my county … because I’ve kept taxes down and made it the safest county in America.
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it → move → America
People like the prosperity I’ve created.
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I’ve created good jobs with good benefits.
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I → create → benefits
…and 92 more, not listed.
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