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Can the grift continues!! Billionaires, who can afford to own two professional sports teams, asking for state money. It ought to be against the law
State documents show major donations from the billionaire owners of the Buffalo Bills and Sabres, Terry and Kim Pegula, as the family potentially seeks State funding for renovations at KeyBank Center in downtown Buffalo. wivb.com/news/political-news…
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She doesn't play games.. unless it's with out lives. Nicki got it 100% correct: @KathyHochul is a VILE WICKED CURSE OF A WOMAN.
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Thanks to Democrats, foreign criminals get special privileges in New York.
At a gun-seizure press conference, NY AG Letitia James, Queens DA Melinda Katz, and Brooklyn DA Eric Gonzalez went stone silent when a reporter asked about a House Judiciary report saying their offices told prosecutors to downgrade charges against illegal immigrants so they wouldn’t get deported.
They’ll hold a presser about guns but won’t answer when the same topic hits immigration consequences.
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BREAKING via NYT: In 2016, the Obama administration investigated Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and found “some evidence that Ms. Omar had entered into a sham marriage with a man suspected of being her brother”, but the case and potential felony charges stalled because of a 5 year statute of limitations.
nytimes.com/2026/10/29/us/im…
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New York's top prosecutors had a chance today to answer a simple question, and they couldn't do it. At a gun-safety press conference, a New York Post reporter asked Attorney General Letitia James, Queens DA Melinda Katz and Brooklyn DA Eric Gonzalez whether any of them ordered prosecutors to downgrade charges to keep illegal immigrants from being deported. They just smiled and blinked. Katz threw her hands up in a shrug, and somebody quickly asked for "other on-topic questions."
The question came from a House Judiciary Committee report released last week. It says Katz told her prosecutors to "exercise extreme caution" with charges against illegal immigrants and not to "get caught up in the label of felonies, misdemeanors." It also says Bronx DA Darcel Clark had staff use "immigration-conscious plea bargaining" and even offer pleas in child sex cases that leave out the child's age as part of the crime. Katz's office later said it never showed leniency to anyone charged with a gun crime.
If these prosecutors weren't bending the law to protect illegal immigrants, it would have been easy to say so right there. A district attorney's job is to protect the people of New York, not to shield criminals, who shouldn't be here, from deportation. When the victims are children, there is no excuse at all. Their silence said more than any answer could.
See the link to the article in the comments.
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Our Crazy Eddie fraud cost investors hundreds of millions of dollars.
If these NYC DAs had been my federal prosecutors, maybe I could’ve gotten my felonies knocked down to petit larceny.
Apparently, I had the wrong immigration status.
NYC district attorneys go silent when confronted over alleged orders to downgrade charges against illegal immigrants nypost.visitlink.me/CpMvYA
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Kathy Hochul promised no new taxes, YET she's now leaving the door OPEN to raising them even higher to please Mamdani!
New Yorkers can't afford any more broken promises. You can change this; vote for me today!
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These people are supposed to work for you and they are supposed to be accountable to you.
Yet, they can’t answer simple questions about why they are downgrading crimes to protect illegal aliens.
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This is what corruption looks like in Albany.
I went through @KathyHochul’s campaign filings line by line.
Here's what she's doing, in plain English:
The shell-company shuffle. Companies are limited to $5,000 a year. So one owner sets up several companies at one address, and each writes a check.
On Jan. 6, four companies at one Brooklyn address gave her $18,000.
This year, 21 groups like that gave her $231,000.
Her husband's company. On Oct. 7, 2025, the family that owns Delaware North gave her $69,500 in one day.
Delaware North has business before the state, and her husband was its top lawyer.
One donor, two spellings. $36,000 came from one donor under two spellings of his name. The limit is $18,000.
Does anyone think that's an accident?
Big donors get access. You get the bill.
November 3rd: change the machine.
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NEW INVESTIGATION: Hochul Refunded Donors. Her Party Reported Matching Gifts and Sent Her $16.5 Million. Did the Money Make a Round Trip?
Her campaign had to give money back to donors.
Then those donors gave the same money to her party. Same names. Same amounts. Usually the same day.
Then the party gave Hochul $16.5 million.
Follow the money.
New York caps what a donor can give a candidate for governor at $9,000 per election. Hochul had no primary opponent, so the primary money had to go back. Her campaign reported $4.7 million in refunds.
But there’s no limit on what the state Democratic Party can give her. And a donor can give the party up to $138,600 a year.
So here’s the path: the campaign refunds you, you give to the party, and the party gives to Hochul.
That’s what the records show:
💰 $2.38 million in Hochul refunds matched gifts to the party from the same donors, down to the name, street address, ZIP code and penny.
💰 The party then sent Hochul $16.5 million: 94% of everything it transferred to other campaigns and committees this year.
💰 In 2022, her last race? $0 in direct transfers to her.
It gets stranger.
🔎 ONE CHECK NUMBER. DOZENS OF REFUNDS.
On July 10, Hochul’s campaign reported 33 refunds, all under ONE check number: 1373. The same day, the party reported gifts from those same donors. Every entry says check No. 1373. Same total to the penny: $141,565.88.
Was that one check from the campaign straight to the party, booked as refunds on one side and donor gifts on the other?
🔎 SAME LIST. SAME ORDER.
On July 7, the campaign reported 47 refunds under one check number. Three days later, the party reported 47 wires from the same donors, for the same amounts, in the SAME ORDER. Who made the list?
🔎 SAME TOTAL. RECORDED TWICE?
On Oct. 19, the party booked $372,519.98 as coming from Hochul’s campaign. It also booked the exact same $372,519.98 as gifts from 55 donors. Hochul’s books show no payment to the party.
🔎 THE DONORS’ OWN WORDS.
One PAC called its refund “redirected to NYSDC.” Another described its party gift as a “Redirection of funds from returned Friends of Hochul Contribution.”
🔎 THE CAMPAIGN’S OWN WORDS.
The campaign told New York Focus it contacted refunded donors, asked them to support Democrats “up and down the ballot,” and gave those who agreed a form directing their “reimbursed funds” to the party.
So the redirects started with the campaign.
Now look at where the party’s money went.
The party’s direct transfers and contributions this year to every other New York Democratic candidate and committee: about $128,000.
To Hochul: $16.5 million.
That’s not up and down the ballot. That’s a piggy bank.
And the cash tells the same story. On July 12, the party had $15.9 million, enough to cover everything else it spent through Oct. 16 four times over. The only reason it needed new money: the $16.5 million for Hochul.
Each transaction can look innocent on its own. Put them together and you see the substance.
I ran the same tests on Hochul’s Republican opponent Bruce Blakeman, Attorney General Letitia James and her Republican opponent Saritha Komatireddy. None showed this pattern. Only Hochul.
The filings can’t show which dollars came back to Hochul. Bank records, the donor forms and campaign-party communications can.
So release them.
If money a campaign has to give back can flow into the party that funds the campaign, what does the limit actually limit?
New York Focus first reported on Oct. 15 that refunded donors were giving matching amounts to the party. My investigation took that analysis substantially further, using official NYS Board of Elections filings covering transactions through Oct. 19.
Full investigation, charts and sources: link in reply 👇
ALT Hochul’s campaign reported $2,376,625.36 in refunds that match gifts the state Democratic Party reported from the same donors; the party sent Hochul $16.5 million. A dashed line marks a possible direct payment from the campaign to the party, which remains an open question.
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Note, the lead is not widening. Vote anything but Hochul!
**4 MORE YEARS AND SHE’LL HAVE DOUBLED THE DEFICIT**
Do you want another four years of rising bills, thinner services, and a bigger hole in the state’s finances?
Under the current path the gap between what New York spends and what it collects in state taxes has already climbed from roughly $90 billion in 2022 to about $143 billion today. By 2030 that same gap reaches $200 billion--more than double where it stood four years ago. That is not abstract accounting. It shows up in everyday costs.
A household already paying among the highest combined state and local taxes in the country can expect continued pressure on utility bills (the state has already layered on dozens of utility tax and fee increases), higher property taxes passed through by local governments, and steeper prices for everything from childcare to car insurance as businesses and landlords absorb higher costs. Medicaid and school-aid growth that outruns revenue means either slower expansion of programs people rely on or higher taxes to keep them going. Transit riders face the prospect of fare hikes or service cuts if the MTA’s own widening gaps are not closed. High earners and businesses continue to leave, shrinking the tax base that is supposed to pay for all of it.
So far the shortfall has been papered over with three familiar tools: large amounts of federal aid, draws on cash balances and reserves, and one-time accounting moves. Federal money has covered a big share of Medicaid, education, and other programs, but those dollars are not permanent and are already being reduced. Reserves sit near $15 billion and have been kept flat even as the budget grows, so the cushion gets thinner relative to the size of the problem. One-time fixes and timing shifts make the current year look better while pushing the real cost into later years. The result is a larger structural gap--Comptroller DiNapoli has flagged roughly $32 billion in cumulative shortfalls across 2028–2030--without a durable plan to close it.
A state cannot run this way indefinitely. Spending that keeps rising faster than the tax base, while population stagnates and high-income residents leave, eventually forces a choice: higher taxes on the people and businesses that remain, cuts to the services those taxes are supposed to fund, or both. Four more years on the same trajectory simply makes the reckoning larger.
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**4 MORE YEARS AND SHE’LL HAVE DOUBLED THE DEFICIT**
Do you want another four years of rising bills, thinner services, and a bigger hole in the state’s finances?
Under the current path the gap between what New York spends and what it collects in state taxes has already climbed from roughly $90 billion in 2022 to about $143 billion today. By 2030 that same gap reaches $200 billion--more than double where it stood four years ago. That is not abstract accounting. It shows up in everyday costs.
A household already paying among the highest combined state and local taxes in the country can expect continued pressure on utility bills (the state has already layered on dozens of utility tax and fee increases), higher property taxes passed through by local governments, and steeper prices for everything from childcare to car insurance as businesses and landlords absorb higher costs. Medicaid and school-aid growth that outruns revenue means either slower expansion of programs people rely on or higher taxes to keep them going. Transit riders face the prospect of fare hikes or service cuts if the MTA’s own widening gaps are not closed. High earners and businesses continue to leave, shrinking the tax base that is supposed to pay for all of it.
So far the shortfall has been papered over with three familiar tools: large amounts of federal aid, draws on cash balances and reserves, and one-time accounting moves. Federal money has covered a big share of Medicaid, education, and other programs, but those dollars are not permanent and are already being reduced. Reserves sit near $15 billion and have been kept flat even as the budget grows, so the cushion gets thinner relative to the size of the problem. One-time fixes and timing shifts make the current year look better while pushing the real cost into later years. The result is a larger structural gap--Comptroller DiNapoli has flagged roughly $32 billion in cumulative shortfalls across 2028–2030--without a durable plan to close it.
A state cannot run this way indefinitely. Spending that keeps rising faster than the tax base, while population stagnates and high-income residents leave, eventually forces a choice: higher taxes on the people and businesses that remain, cuts to the services those taxes are supposed to fund, or both. Four more years on the same trajectory simply makes the reckoning larger.
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**4 MORE YEARS AND SHE’LL HAVE PERSONALLY DOUBLED THE DEFICIT**
Do you want another four years of rising bills, thinner services, and a bigger hole in the state’s finances?
Under the current path the gap between what New York spends and what it collects in state taxes has already climbed from roughly $90 billion in 2022 to about $143 billion today. By 2030 that same gap reaches $200 billion--more than double where it stood four years ago. That is not abstract accounting. It shows up in everyday costs.
A household already paying among the highest combined state and local taxes in the country can expect continued pressure on utility bills (the state has already layered on dozens of utility tax and fee increases), higher property taxes passed through by local governments, and steeper prices for everything from childcare to car insurance as businesses and landlords absorb higher costs. Medicaid and school-aid growth that outruns revenue means either slower expansion of programs people rely on or higher taxes to keep them going. Transit riders face the prospect of fare hikes or service cuts if the MTA’s own widening gaps are not closed. High earners and businesses continue to leave, shrinking the tax base that is supposed to pay for all of it.
So far the shortfall has been papered over with three familiar tools: large amounts of federal aid, draws on cash balances and reserves, and one-time accounting moves. Federal money has covered a big share of Medicaid, education, and other programs, but those dollars are not permanent and are already being reduced. Reserves sit near $15 billion and have been kept flat even as the budget grows, so the cushion gets thinner relative to the size of the problem. One-time fixes and timing shifts make the current year look better while pushing the real cost into later years. The result is a larger structural gap--Comptroller DiNapoli has flagged roughly $32 billion in cumulative shortfalls across 2028–2030--without a durable plan to close it.
A state cannot run this way indefinitely. Spending that keeps rising faster than the tax base, while population stagnates and high-income residents leave, eventually forces a choice: higher taxes on the people and businesses that remain, cuts to the services those taxes are supposed to fund, or both. Four more years on the same trajectory simply makes the reckoning larger.
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Bad news for us. Ps: Newsday seems a little off on this.
**4 MORE YEARS AND SHE’LL HAVE DOUBLED THE DEFICIT**
Do you want another four years of rising bills, thinner services, and a bigger hole in the state’s finances?
Under the current path the gap between what New York spends and what it collects in state taxes has already climbed from roughly $90 billion in 2022 to about $143 billion today. By 2030 that same gap reaches $200 billion--more than double where it stood four years ago. That is not abstract accounting. It shows up in everyday costs.
A household already paying among the highest combined state and local taxes in the country can expect continued pressure on utility bills (the state has already layered on dozens of utility tax and fee increases), higher property taxes passed through by local governments, and steeper prices for everything from childcare to car insurance as businesses and landlords absorb higher costs. Medicaid and school-aid growth that outruns revenue means either slower expansion of programs people rely on or higher taxes to keep them going. Transit riders face the prospect of fare hikes or service cuts if the MTA’s own widening gaps are not closed. High earners and businesses continue to leave, shrinking the tax base that is supposed to pay for all of it.
So far the shortfall has been papered over with three familiar tools: large amounts of federal aid, draws on cash balances and reserves, and one-time accounting moves. Federal money has covered a big share of Medicaid, education, and other programs, but those dollars are not permanent and are already being reduced. Reserves sit near $15 billion and have been kept flat even as the budget grows, so the cushion gets thinner relative to the size of the problem. One-time fixes and timing shifts make the current year look better while pushing the real cost into later years. The result is a larger structural gap--Comptroller DiNapoli has flagged roughly $32 billion in cumulative shortfalls across 2028–2030--without a durable plan to close it.
A state cannot run this way indefinitely. Spending that keeps rising faster than the tax base, while population stagnates and high-income residents leave, eventually forces a choice: higher taxes on the people and businesses that remain, cuts to the services those taxes are supposed to fund, or both. Four more years on the same trajectory simply makes the reckoning larger.
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78 female Democrats in Congress BLOCKED the release of sexual misconduct reports.
The same ones yelling about Epstein 24/7.
The irony is wild.
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We would rather see you wandering around like this (with your tax-funded security protecting you from your cashless bail pals) than adding to your other 'accomplishments.'
You've screwed us in about every way already. Do you really have more to destroy with another term?
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NY VOTES RESULTS, NOT INSULTS
New York once proved that results beat ideology. Under Gov. George Pataki (1995–2006), the state enacted over $100 billion in cumulative tax cuts, created more than 600,000 jobs, and cut welfare rolls by over a million people. He signed more than 100 laws toughening criminal penalties. Crime fell for 11 consecutive years. New York went from the 6th most violent state to the 6th safest and the safest large state in the nation. That is what accountability and economic growth look like.
Kathy Hochul’s record is the opposite. She inherited and has defended the 2019 bail reforms that stripped judges of the ability to weigh public safety and dangerousness for many offenses. Minor tweaks since then have not fixed the core problem. High-risk defendants released without meaningful conditions reoffend at elevated rates. The revolving door has produced repeat assaults, robberies, and worse. Families have buried loved ones because people with serious records walked free after arrest. That is not compassion—it is a policy failure that has cost lives.
Her sanctuary stance has compounded the damage. New York has refused to honor thousands of ICE detainers. Federal data shows these unhonored requests involve people charged with or convicted of homicide, sexual assault, kidnapping, weapons offenses, and other serious crimes.
The result is criminal illegal aliens released back onto the streets. Specific cases include the subway attack that killed Air Force veteran Richard Williams and other preventable victimizations. Hochul even signed legislation limiting local police cooperation with ICE. These choices prioritize non-citizens who break the law over the safety of New Yorkers.
Voters can judge the records. One administration cut taxes, created jobs, and drove crime down for over a decade. The other has overseen higher costs, defended policies that return dangerous people to the street, and accepted sanctuary outcomes that have led to American deaths. Results, not rhetoric. Vote accordingly.
