Saturday, March 21, 2026

The Shocking Hubris of Kathy Hochul

By Caroline Downey

Saturday, March 21, 2026

 

Kathy Hochul, the governor of New York who now finds herself in a budget bind, is pleading for the rich ex-New Yorkers who found safe haven from her punitive progressive policies in the Sun Belt to return north. For her to call all the ones who stayed put despite the hostile tax environment “patriotic” shows some audacity. Wealthy people don’t have to put up with government abuse of their hard-earned money; they can just leave. Now that Hochul’s tax base has run out on her, she’s resorted to begging, although still with a slighting tone toward businesspeople. She should have thought of all this before she told Republican New Yorkers they were aliens in their own state and to pound sand on down to Florida.

 

I grew up there among New York transplants, so I know: You’ll have to pry the golf cart keys from their cold, dead hands.

 

I talked about Hochul’s hubris on The Evening Edit on Fox Business:

 

Fox News reports Governor urging wealthy New Yorkers to return.

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