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Calls for Cuomo to resign
The Legislature will likely strip Gov. Cuomo of his emergency pandemic powers as left-leaning groups like the Working Families Party called on him to step down over sexual-harassment allegations.
With Gov. Cuomo engulfed in scandal, the spotlight is on Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul, who would become governor should Cuomo resign or be impeached.
“Kathy is absolutely ready,” Erie County Democratic Party Chairman Jeremy Zellner told The Post.
“There’s one word that describes our lieutenant governor: tenacious,” Zellner added, pointing to Hochul’s appeal to rural and urban Democrats alike. “She’s been a bulldog from Day One. She knows what needs to get done for the people of New York.”
Cuomo, 63, has denied any wrongdoing and has not given any public indication he’s considering stepping down.
Should that change, the married mother of two would become the first female governor of the Empire State.
Buffalo-born Hochul (right) received her BA from Syracuse University, and a law degree from the Columbus School of Law at Catholic University in Washington, DC. But by the early ’90s, she pivoted from law to become involved in politics.
In 2003, Hochul was tapped by Erie County Clerk David Swarts as his deputy. When Swarts resigned in 2007, Hochul was elected to finish out his term, and clinched re-election in 2010.
But before finishing her first full term, Hochul ran for the US House during the 2011 special election to represent the region spanning parts of Erie and Niagara counties — and pulled off an upset in the heavily Republican district, before losing the seat in 2012.
Describing herself as an “independent Democrat,” she even won the endorsement of the NRA.