Did she think that New Jersey residents vote for New York candidates? Do you have a link to the narrative?
Here's an article about it, she hasn't admitted the election considerations so we can't know for sure: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/09/nyregion/hochul-congestio...
The congestion charge is nowhere on the DNC's radar nationally. The mayor of the largest city in the country engaging in blatant quid pro quo with a president from another party, certainly is.
Remove him from office? That's a power the governor has, and which the previous governor (Cuomo) threatened to use for petty personal disagreements with the previous mayor (DeBlasio), so actually invoking it to remove someone who has been indicted on federal charges is clearly fair game.
> The DoJ suit against Adams didn't happen until a month after the DNC.
The indictment didn't happen until the fall, but Adams had his home raided and phone seized long before that. The perjury also happened before that, I believe.
I honestly have no clue what beef you have with me, or if you even disagree, but thanks for calling me cool.
> What was the reason she gave for not ratfucking it a second time?
Still waiting on an answer that it seems you might be capable of providing rather than acting like a dick
It took a lot of time and effort to bring the stakeholders together for congestion pricing. And to withhold her approval at the last moment was shocking. It's hard to imagine what she was really thinking and even harder to understand how she felt she would be rewarded for it. That's not a real answer to your question, but her reasoning on both congestion pricing and Eric Adams just seems opaque.
If only they could also write with a heavy NYC accent, their comment would be even cooler. Forget about it.
Accordingly, it’s a dc