I've never been to NYC, but having lived my entire life in Greater LA, I know about traffic congestion and would have no problem paying a bit to reduce it. Time is money.
Yes, he explained that the fed needed to sign off on a portion of it due to the convergence of federal roads. He's a fuckwit. But tbh it was Hochul on Maddow the other day who put up a white flag on national TV when she hadn't even been asked about it...Maddow is asking about Adams debacle and Hochul goes into this blah blah about how she's willing to negotiate with the admin re "tolls". WTF? 24 hrs later DJT is dancing on her head over it.
Yeah, not a power she could easily employ, but what was notable is that instead of explaining that herself she deflected to another issue and then within a day lost out on that as well to the administration. Her goose is cooked.
Please see my comment above. I believe you are quite wrong about this. Kathy Hochul has earned HUGE respect from most NY'ers I've heard from/talked to precisely due to her stance against frump.
I hope I'm wrong about her but where are your NYers? Are they white and affluent or conservative? In NYC? Buffalo is the 2nd largest city in NY and has the 3rd highest poverty rate in the US w/a totally corrupt Dem gvmt propped up by the state. The machine (conservative) Dem party here overrode a primary that a progressive mayoral candidate won for the incumbent (Brown) who was given the nom w/explicit agreement lieutenants would be GOP and then he floated on a golden parachute to OTB leaving unelected GOP in charge here. Grift is huge w/Dems pouring state $ into private developers hands and no improvement for the people, jobs, housing etc. Dems here are like GOP of old. Huge tax $ spent on stadium in her wealthy suburb that won't help city (across the street from the old one). Roll tape of her smiling and saying 'happy to be with you' on her first national interview in front of the market where black neighbors were slaughtered by a white supremacist from, again, the local white suburbs where they fly Confederate flags. Slashing CDPA programs for the disabled by pushing care admin to one fiscal intermediary from out of state that has a horrendous track record in other states, pushing more people into custodial care which is abyssmal. I'm a progressive, and Dems have been giving away ground here for the last two cycles, which is why the GOP has a house majority. NY is the bulwark of the East. If she wants to resist and hold ground she needs to not say she's willing to negotiate with the administration on national TV was my point.
Kathy Hochul, MY Governor, made it quite clear to the mad king that he was NOT going to ride roughshod over NY's decision over congestion pricing which is already working. SHE is standing firm against him. As far as Eric Adams is concerned, the process of her 'firing' him would take years with multiple court hearings (as Lawrence explained in detail). She announced today that she would not summarily fire him (as many people mistakenly think she should or can) but would want oversight until the mayoral election (I believe in November?) and to avoid the ridiculousness of the possibility of 3 NYC Mayors in one year. Let's be clear, she is NOT backing down to frump.
My gov also, from my little town of Hamburg. I HOPE it is as she says it is. I agree 100% w/congestion pricing, have friends in NYC who say yea on the ground. It would be a stupid hill for orange to die on but it's a great distraction from Adams quid pro quo. I hope he gets his ass handed to him in court again. Adams is severely compromised, whatever she does for oversight is necessary to the max allowable. We all scream internally when we see house or Senate Dems saying 'we will work bipartisan with admin' when GOP is not reciprocating and dealing in good faith amidst a coup. If this is deadly serious, Dems need to employ same level vigilance in state politics, volunteering another issue to deflect from the one at hand doesn't inspire confidence and I don't think it hurts for her to hear that from the people of NY. I want her to be empowered to stand strong and it's hard not to look weak around orange because he's a total fucker with the bully pulpit. But NYers also can't stand him, so she has support. Her time in the light is precious. Don't volunteer to negotiate about another issue on nat TV so trump can divert nat attn with another stunt. Hold his feet to the fire that matters most, which right now is Adams and this rikers thing.
Ok, with this we ARE in agreement, Anne. I know very little about 'upstate' political maneuvering, having lived solely in: Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens ` until ending up (reluctantly at first, I admit) on Long Island, quite far out (all we could afford as young marrieds despite the daily commute being horrendous). My best friend had moved fairly close by as well as my older brother which made it more palatable, but tbh 'I' wanted to be Upstate so I could have a horse, something I still miss but likely couldn't do any longer. I barely managed 3 hours of sleep, ensuring my husband got more since he drove us (we took a neighbour along) into the City most often. During those years, politics had to take a back step since holding onto our house and pets had to be priority. For us, you truly are in an entirely different world up there. For decades, our quiet little Court has been multi-ethnic - chosen for that reason (I can't tolerate the stupidity of 'white flight' whenever a different family moved in and we've all coexisted happily and become great friends.) Lately, one 'around the corner' creep has posted a 'this is trump country' sign on his lawn and my rage intensifies with every viewing: 'OH NO IT'S NOT, YOU FUCKWIT!' 'Over my dead body' also applies, but more of them are creeping in due to affordability, then their ranting complaints on the NextDoor app about anything and everything, showing their biases and bigotry begin to cow those on the wrong side of that kind of vitriol. It's all some of us can do to hang onto our earlier wonderful way of life and to reassure those targeted that we DO and WILL have their backs no matter what. WE are not the wealthy Southamptonites, just ordinary people, but we vote and pay attention and we are VERY active against those attempting to take over and alter our heretofore hard-earned peaceful communities. I thought my getting out there days were behind me since I'm physically disabled, and now my husband is recovering (slowly) from a fractured femur. Sadly, it takes ALL of us, of all ages and states of being, to fight back.
Lawrence O'Donnell had an excellent piece about the NY Congestion thing last night.
Paul Krugman wrote a piece last month about why congestion pricing is a good idea:
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/lessons-from-new-yorks-congestion
I've never been to NYC, but having lived my entire life in Greater LA, I know about traffic congestion and would have no problem paying a bit to reduce it. Time is money.
Exactly, I visited NY two times, I hated it, I have no desire to ever visit again.
Oh, no! You can visit a different museum every day!
Ditto.
Yes, he explained that the fed needed to sign off on a portion of it due to the convergence of federal roads. He's a fuckwit. But tbh it was Hochul on Maddow the other day who put up a white flag on national TV when she hadn't even been asked about it...Maddow is asking about Adams debacle and Hochul goes into this blah blah about how she's willing to negotiate with the admin re "tolls". WTF? 24 hrs later DJT is dancing on her head over it.
Lawrence explained why Hochul
" firing " Adams would take way too long.
Yeah, not a power she could easily employ, but what was notable is that instead of explaining that herself she deflected to another issue and then within a day lost out on that as well to the administration. Her goose is cooked.
Please see my comment above. I believe you are quite wrong about this. Kathy Hochul has earned HUGE respect from most NY'ers I've heard from/talked to precisely due to her stance against frump.
I hope I'm wrong about her but where are your NYers? Are they white and affluent or conservative? In NYC? Buffalo is the 2nd largest city in NY and has the 3rd highest poverty rate in the US w/a totally corrupt Dem gvmt propped up by the state. The machine (conservative) Dem party here overrode a primary that a progressive mayoral candidate won for the incumbent (Brown) who was given the nom w/explicit agreement lieutenants would be GOP and then he floated on a golden parachute to OTB leaving unelected GOP in charge here. Grift is huge w/Dems pouring state $ into private developers hands and no improvement for the people, jobs, housing etc. Dems here are like GOP of old. Huge tax $ spent on stadium in her wealthy suburb that won't help city (across the street from the old one). Roll tape of her smiling and saying 'happy to be with you' on her first national interview in front of the market where black neighbors were slaughtered by a white supremacist from, again, the local white suburbs where they fly Confederate flags. Slashing CDPA programs for the disabled by pushing care admin to one fiscal intermediary from out of state that has a horrendous track record in other states, pushing more people into custodial care which is abyssmal. I'm a progressive, and Dems have been giving away ground here for the last two cycles, which is why the GOP has a house majority. NY is the bulwark of the East. If she wants to resist and hold ground she needs to not say she's willing to negotiate with the administration on national TV was my point.
Kathy Hochul, MY Governor, made it quite clear to the mad king that he was NOT going to ride roughshod over NY's decision over congestion pricing which is already working. SHE is standing firm against him. As far as Eric Adams is concerned, the process of her 'firing' him would take years with multiple court hearings (as Lawrence explained in detail). She announced today that she would not summarily fire him (as many people mistakenly think she should or can) but would want oversight until the mayoral election (I believe in November?) and to avoid the ridiculousness of the possibility of 3 NYC Mayors in one year. Let's be clear, she is NOT backing down to frump.
My gov also, from my little town of Hamburg. I HOPE it is as she says it is. I agree 100% w/congestion pricing, have friends in NYC who say yea on the ground. It would be a stupid hill for orange to die on but it's a great distraction from Adams quid pro quo. I hope he gets his ass handed to him in court again. Adams is severely compromised, whatever she does for oversight is necessary to the max allowable. We all scream internally when we see house or Senate Dems saying 'we will work bipartisan with admin' when GOP is not reciprocating and dealing in good faith amidst a coup. If this is deadly serious, Dems need to employ same level vigilance in state politics, volunteering another issue to deflect from the one at hand doesn't inspire confidence and I don't think it hurts for her to hear that from the people of NY. I want her to be empowered to stand strong and it's hard not to look weak around orange because he's a total fucker with the bully pulpit. But NYers also can't stand him, so she has support. Her time in the light is precious. Don't volunteer to negotiate about another issue on nat TV so trump can divert nat attn with another stunt. Hold his feet to the fire that matters most, which right now is Adams and this rikers thing.
Ok, with this we ARE in agreement, Anne. I know very little about 'upstate' political maneuvering, having lived solely in: Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens ` until ending up (reluctantly at first, I admit) on Long Island, quite far out (all we could afford as young marrieds despite the daily commute being horrendous). My best friend had moved fairly close by as well as my older brother which made it more palatable, but tbh 'I' wanted to be Upstate so I could have a horse, something I still miss but likely couldn't do any longer. I barely managed 3 hours of sleep, ensuring my husband got more since he drove us (we took a neighbour along) into the City most often. During those years, politics had to take a back step since holding onto our house and pets had to be priority. For us, you truly are in an entirely different world up there. For decades, our quiet little Court has been multi-ethnic - chosen for that reason (I can't tolerate the stupidity of 'white flight' whenever a different family moved in and we've all coexisted happily and become great friends.) Lately, one 'around the corner' creep has posted a 'this is trump country' sign on his lawn and my rage intensifies with every viewing: 'OH NO IT'S NOT, YOU FUCKWIT!' 'Over my dead body' also applies, but more of them are creeping in due to affordability, then their ranting complaints on the NextDoor app about anything and everything, showing their biases and bigotry begin to cow those on the wrong side of that kind of vitriol. It's all some of us can do to hang onto our earlier wonderful way of life and to reassure those targeted that we DO and WILL have their backs no matter what. WE are not the wealthy Southamptonites, just ordinary people, but we vote and pay attention and we are VERY active against those attempting to take over and alter our heretofore hard-earned peaceful communities. I thought my getting out there days were behind me since I'm physically disabled, and now my husband is recovering (slowly) from a fractured femur. Sadly, it takes ALL of us, of all ages and states of being, to fight back.