Posted on 08/28/2023 7:42:18 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
More than half of New York’s registered voters believe the state is headed in the wrong direction — and a whopping 80% are demanding term limits for the governor and legislators, a startling new poll shows.
The fed-up respondents gave Gov. Kathy Hochul a dismal 40% approval rating, a big drop from her 50% figure from a survey released just three months ago, according to the independent Unite NY’s Voter Empowerment Index unveiled Sunday.
Other state lawmakers fared even worse with a 27% approval rating, down from their recent 36%.
Overall, 53% of the state’s voters said they don’t like where the state is headed politically, and 40% said they are considering leaving.
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Term limits for Governor?
How about electing a Governor that, if he/she had a brain, wouldn’t take it out and play with it?
That would be a start.
IOW......next gov will be another useless democommie.. Seen this movie before.
The voters are the mechanism for term limits, you idiots. Try voting with your brains instead of virtue signaling.
Seriously. These blue voters across the country, who bemoan their circumstances and can’t figure out how they got there. Imbeciles
NYS is the Democrat Holy Land. How could ANYBODY in NYS be unhappy with their elected Democrat Despot rule?
I grew up in upstate NY ages 4 - 14. My very first political memories are around age 8 of Dad and his buddies at backyard BBQs complaining about all the taxes collected upstate and sent to NYC. This was back around 1960. It’s been a long downhill slide for decades.
“Yet they voted in Hochul and will she will be reelected if she runs.”
Exactly what I was thinking.
Years of rat control has allowed them to weld the door shut. I don’t think this wretched woman actually won. The D control the entire process in NY. A Republican would have to win by 15% to prevail..as if.
“More than half of New York’s registered voters believe the state is headed in the wrong direction”
More than half of New York’s registered voters voted for that wrong direction.
"New York comptroller DiNapoli: Tax revenue takes tumble"So rich? But revenues take a tumble? Rich but massively in debt? Revenues falling, so raise more taxes. But "New York is rich?"Source: https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/central-ny/ny-state-of-politics/2023/07/17/comptroller-dinapoli--tax-revenue-takes-tumble-
"New York is rich, but Gov. Kathy Hochul still wants to raise your taxes"
Source: https://nypost.com/2023/02/01/new-york-is-rich-but-gov-kathy-hochul-still-wants-to-raise-your-taxes/ But only months ago....
"Hochul resists campaign to raise taxes on the wealthy"
Source: https://www.ny1.com/nyc/manhattan/politics/2022/12/16/hochul-resists-campaign-to-raise-taxes-on-the-wealthy
But....
"N.Y. state, local public authorities debt up 23% since 2017"
Source: https://www.bondbuyer.com/news/n-y-state-local-public-authorities-debt-up-23-since-2017
All in the media. Yes but no. Up but down. Rich but poor. Orwellian, and likely with intent so to be.
They can complain about their Democrat elected officials, but those liberal voters can’t ever see voting Republican, so they vote Democrat even if they don’t like her .
She will be reelected because the alternative would be an evil Republican.
40% support for Hochul is a helluva lot of really stupid and lazy people. Just a thought, when children grow up lacking a father, do they want government to be a father figure when they are adults?
Only 53%? Pathetic.
Good luck getting anything without sieging the legislature with no end in sight.
The Jewish community is what I can’t understand......they vote overwhelming Democrat in ny AND nyc.....I just don’t get it. SMH
How does she even get 40%.
And just wait until they start spending $20,000,000 a month for just one facility for the illegals. Number is sure to go much higher.
demanding term limits for the governor and legislators,
Net result is more corruption.
what is the solution?
True enough. We voters have the means of imposing term limits. If we think an office holder has been there long enough, we can fix that with our votes.
Over half of NY voters say that they are sick of getting hit upside the head with a hammer.
In the news, over half of NY Voters believe the solution to their problems is more government funding for hammers.
This reminds me of a quote from a really famous guy who I will not name:
“In any technologically advanced society the individual’s fate must depend on decisions that he personally cannot influence to any great extent.
A technological society cannot be broken down into small, autonomous communities, because production depends on the cooperation of very large numbers of people and machines.
Such a society must be highly organized and decisions have to be made that affect very large numbers of people. When a decision affects, say, a million people, then each of the affected individual has, on the average, only a one-millionth share in making the decision.
What usually happens in practice is that decisions are made by public officials or corporation executives, or by technical specialists, but even when the public votes on a decision the number of voters ordinarily is too large for the vote of any one individual to be significant.
Thus most individuals are unable to influence measurably the major decisions that affect their lives.
There is no conceivable way to remedy this in a technologically advanced society.
The system tries to “solve” this problem by using propaganda to make people want the decisions that have been made for them...”
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