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Commentary By Nicole Gelinas

Gov. Hochul Is Now Just Andrew Cuomo 2.0

Gov. Kathy Hochul has not made major changes during her term compared to former Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

When Gov. Hochul took office a year ago this month, New Yorkers had high hopes that she would be something new and needed: Big majorities were glad to have a less combative leader who promised “open, ethical governing.”

Yet in addition to her poor performance on crime and the economy, Hochul has proved off-puttingly enthusiastic in embracing cronyism as usual — albeit less competently than Andrew Cuomo.

Crime: New York City sees no real sign of a turnaround in its nearly 2¹/₂-year-old crime scourge.

Continue reading the entire piece here at the New York Post

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Nicole Gelinas is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and contributing editor at City Journal. Follow her on Twitter here

This piece originally appeared in New York Post