Contrasting Zeldin’s specific promises to Hochul’s thin platform

LEE KATHY vs. ZELDIN HOCHUL

On public safety

“Repeal Cashless Bail and Less is More Act. Remove district attorneys who don’t enforce the law . . . Give judges discretion when setting bail. Increase penalties on looting businesses . . . Oppose any effort to Defund the Police. Keep qualified immunity.” “Governor Hochul is committed to keeping our communities and families safe, getting illegal guns off our streets, and ensuring our criminal-justice system is fairer and more equitable.”

On education

“Defending a parent’s fundamental right to be in control of their child’s education and encouraging parents to be as involved as possible . . . Protecting and expanding advanced and specialized academics and keeping merit based entry exams into specialized schools . . . Lifting the cap on charter schools . . .” “. . . Governor Hochul also knows the pandemic hit children and parents hard, which is why she plans to invest an additional $2.1 billion in New York’s public schools to increase the number of school teachers, bus drivers and support staff.”

On economy and jobs

His plan includes “cutting taxes across the board, slashing job-killing regulations, creating goodpaying jobs, suspending the gas tax, slashing wasteful spending, reinstating automatic inflation indexing to avoid bracket creep, and much more. By safely extracting natural resources and approving new pipelines, new jobs would be created, our state would become energy-independent.” “Providing $100 million in relief for nearly 200,000 small businesses” and “making affordable child care accessible to 100,000 more working families and investing $75 million to raise child-care-worker wages.”