The former Republican of three terms George Pataki praised the Democratic governor Kathy Hochul for maintaining the approval of the state budget, until the democrats of the legislature accept a measure to help prosecutors put criminals after bars.
“It is easy at this time to say:” Oh, governor Hochul, has approved the budget. Isn’t it horrible? “In my opinion, she is doing the right thing: defending the security of all New Yorkers,” Pataki said on Sunday at Wabc 770 the “Roundable Cats” radio program.
Pataki, who was Governor of New York from 1995 to 2006, referred to the strip and loosen to change the discovery law prior to the trial approved by the then Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the Legislature in 2019. The law includes terms of evidence and other information prosecutors must lead the criminal defendants and their lawyers.
The Hochul Crusade to change the discovery laws has the support of the five district prosecutors of the city, who argue that the requirements have caused an increase in criminal cases that dismiss for technicalities, allowing national abusers and Eather’s criminals.
“That [Hochul] He is struggling to change some of the ridiculous pro-criminal reforms that legislats crossed and Cuomo signed the law when he was governor, ”Pataki told John Catsimatidis.
Hochul is trying to make the law of discovery more fair “so that prosecutors can hold violent criminals and she is not a budget,” Pataki said.
“She is telling the legislators:” Or pass this intact change or I will not sign the budget. “This is exactly what you should be doing,” said the former governor.
He said it is easy to approve a budget if the governor closes legislators and gives them everything that they want expenses and laws.
“But if you have the courage to stand up and take heat, then you can make the changes that New York needs, at this time in this budget fight, Governor Hochul is doing that and applauds it for it,” Pataki said.
Currently, Republicans in the Legislature are on the corner of Hochul in two of their priorities: adjust the discovery law and expand the authority to force seriously ill people to treatment. Resistance comes from other Democrats.
The state budget was due on April 1
Hochul is negotiating the details of the 2025-2026 Financial Plan with the leader of the majority of the Senate, Andrea Stewart-Cousins (D-Yonkers) and the speaker of the Carl Heastie Assembly (D-Bronx), who supported the current discovery law prior to the trial.
Hochul and legislators have approved emergency extensors so that continuous state workers are paid and services are not interrupted.
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