GOVERNOR HOCHUL IS A GUEST ON MSNBC’S “MORNING JOE”

Governor Hochul was a guest on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe”. The Governor’s remarks are available in audio form here.

Governor Hochul: “The most important thing I can do as Governor: to provide dollars for public safety and programming. We have spent over $1 billion on public safety — much of it for New York City. But, you know what we’re doing right now? I was told that we should have more police officers on the overnight trains. They couldn’t afford the overtime. Well we’re picking up the tab. No governor has had that level of cooperation to help solve city problems, probably in its history. But I know that if this city is paralyzed with fear and the thought of something happening to themselves or their children on the streets of New York, then all of a sudden it starts to suppress the vitality of the City and people don’t want to come here. We have turned the corner on this… So, we are making a difference. I want you to know that it may not feel it — and I’m not trying to tell everybody how they should feel — but the crowds are back, the energy is back and people are safer than they had been. And the numbers are just extraordinary, but we’re not stopping. We never, never say we’re done with fighting crime. We have to keep doing it.”

Hochul: “The red parts of even New York and across America, these are the people who are going to be hit hardest by what the Republican members of Congress did [to Medicaid]… I have people who have major dental problems. I’m trying so hard to eradicate this, and I’ve got my own Republicans from New York working against me, against their constituents. This is all about basic health care, maternal health care. This is about getting your insulin treatments. This is about trying to take care of your cancer. And this is about your grandma and grandpa, and maybe your parents, sitting in a nursing home because that’s the largest expense for Medicaid. So that’s what they need to own… they break it, they own it. And you now own this.”