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Changes since congestion pricing started in New York

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437 points Vinnl | 4 comments | 13 May 25 10:43 UTC | HN request time: 1.035s | source
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fundaThree ◴[14 May 25 21:24 UTC] No.43989379[source]▶
I thought Hochul ratfucked this initiative for no apparent reason. What was the reason she gave for not ratfucking it a second time?
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1. epistasis ◴[14 May 25 21:31 UTC] No.43989438[source]▶
She delayed it by many months and lowered the fee, but eventually it went through. There was a theory that she wanted to delay it to win some contested seats in the November election, but that did not bear fruit. Now those voters still hate her, as do all the people that wanted congestion pricing. She was not well liked at the Democratic National Convention.
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2. KennyBlanken ◴[14 May 25 22:12 UTC] No.43989725[source]▶
The reason she's not well liked is because she did absolutely nothing about probably one of the most corrupt mayors in the history of NYC.

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.

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3. epistasis ◴[14 May 25 22:20 UTC] No.43989778[source]▶
I'm not quite following here. What is Hochul supposed to do about Adams? The DoJ suit against Adams didn't happen until a month after the DNC. Blatant quid pro quo with a president from another party couldn't have happened until long after the DNC.
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4. chimeracoder ◴[15 May 25 16:30 UTC] No.43996674{3}[source]▶
> I'm not quite following here. What is Hochul supposed to do about Adams?

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.