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February 8, 2025

Another Hochul Power Grab: Statement from New York State
Conservative Party Chairman Gerard Kassar

“Governor Kathy Hochul has no interest in fair and honest government. Her latest assault on New York’s Constitutional protections has made it official. It’s all power politics all the time now in Albany — Democracy be damned.

“The Conservative Party will support coming legal efforts to defend the rights of New York voters, just as we support Congressman Mike Lawler’s call for a RICO investigation of top-to-bottom corruption in New York State government.

“The Governor and her progressive colleagues will stop at nothing to rig the New York election process to their advantage, something they have repeatedly tried to do over the past several years. These naked attempts have been stopped in court, one after another, by the Conservative Party and other defenders of democratic norms. The Governor should expect another major legal battle on her hands.

“Voters of all parties are Constitutionally entitled to representation in Washington and Albany. Delaying special elections for political primacy is wrong. It’s ‘anti-democratic’, as the progressives like to say. Their hypocrisy is rich.”