Rob Astorino
@RobAstorino
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Host of “Saturday Agenda” (1-3pm ET) on Newsmax TV; Host, “Rob Astorino Show” Saturdays at 4p on 710 WOR; former 2-term Westchester County Executive.
Westchester, NY
Joined February 2009
This year’s election is going to be the revenge of the normal people.
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🚨 🚨🚨Gov’t contractor talking about the secret midnight flights from southern border into Westchester (NY) Airport: . “If it gets out… the government is betraying the American people.”. Stop lying to us. Secure the border. Uphold rule of law.
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All mandates need to end immediately and all who were fired need to be reinstated with back pay. The justification for maintaining them grows more ludicrous by the day.
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When I’m governor, all the mandates are gone and they’re never coming back.
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I opposed all Covid vaccine mandates & passports from the start but now that the rationale for each (to reduce spread) has been obliterated these unscientific & divisive fiats must end immediately. My very first order of business as governor will be to lift all mandates.
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.@GovKathyHochul says kids as young as two wearing masks up to 7hrs/day is “not that big a deal.” Yet she hardly ever wears a mask herself. She’s drunk w/ power and must be stopped. NY must join the rest of the civilized world and #UNMASKOURCHILDREN
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NY 2022 - where an adult can legally shoot up heroin in public but a child is arrested for going to a museum without papers. Is anyone proud of this lunacy? . I’ll stop it.
Multiple arrests made at an Anti-Mandate Vax Passpprt demonstration inside the Museum Of Natural History in New York City. Among the arrestees are a mother and child.
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It’s good we have access to vaccines & boosters but no one should be coerced into getting them in order to work, attend school or participate in our free society - especially since they don’t prevent infection/transmission. On Day 1 as governor, I will lift all C19 mandates.
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Secret Biden flights from southern border are back at Westchester County Airport. iAero 737 from El Paso landed Saturday at 9:43pm. 2 buses went south and one went to Somers in northern Westchester. When will US govt answer my Feb 1 letter? Public has a right to know.
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It's obvious to anyone who watched the debate why @GovKathyHochul only agreed to do one. She was a disaster while @leezeldin was excellent and in command. The choice on Nov. 8 couldn't be more clear.
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On Day 1 as governor, I will lift all mandates. We have vaccines and effective therapeutics in the tool kit. It’s time to return to normalcy like the overwhelming majority of states and countries have done. NY can’t continue like this. Chip in if you agree.
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You’re kidding no one. Your top priority is yourself. We have cops being ambushed & killed and you’re spending your energy fighting to keep masks on kids for 8hrs/day? Masks that don’t prevent anything except normalcy for children. Aren’t you embarrassed?.
My top priority is protecting the people of this state. Mask regulations are critical to prevent the spread of COVID-19, make schools and businesses safe, and save lives. We will not stop fighting to protect New Yorkers, and we are confident we will continue to prevail.
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This should be the final nail in the political coffin for Kathy Hochul. She is hopelessly out of touch with the needs of everyday New Yorkers. Help save NY by voting for @leezeldin.
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My op-Ed in today’s @nypost calling for an end to all COVID mandates, a new data-driven & common sense approach to deal w/ the virus and a long overdue restoration of normalcy most especially for our children. Please read and share.
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New York will be the last state to drop the school mask mandate because @GovKathyHochul is clueless. It is unforgivable what she has done to children. Never forget it. Help me defeat her so she can never do it again.
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In less than one year, New York will follow suit. On Day 1 as governor, I will lift all of these unscientific & harmful mandates. I’m doing all I can to get them lifted before then, but just know there is light at the end of the tunnel.
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Bravo, Señor Présidente. Lo felicito por promover un estilo de vida saludable para combatir al COVID 19 y otras enfermedades. Debemos de hacer lo mismo en Nueva York y a través del país.
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The pro-criminal policies of @GovKathyHochul (ie. No cash bail) have made communities all across NY less safe. This brazen robbery of a @LouisVuitton occurred at my local mall @TheWestchester in White Plains. @News12WC @lohud @PIX11News @CBSNewYork @NBCNewYork @ABC7NY @fox5ny
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It’s time mask mandates are ended for service sector employees. It’s dehumanizing, unscientific and elitist to have it still in effect. End it now.
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No one is fooled by your 11th hour, poll-driven scramble. You had your chance to do something on crime, but you’ve only fueled the crime wave w/ your radical policies & your indifference to the public outcries for safety. @leezeldin will soon fix your disaster.
Transit is the lifeblood of New York City, and our prosperity depends on everyone feeling confident and secure when riding our subways and buses. @NYCMayor and I are working together to build on our ongoing efforts to keep New Yorkers safe and address transit crime:.
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Lee Zeldin and I fought these destructive, vindictive mandates from the beginning. No bigger supporter of mandates than @GovKathyHochul. She gleefully fired 37K HC workers & wants to force COVID vax for school kids. Vote @leezeldin to stop this insanity.
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NJ set to join most of the country and world. Meanwhile, @GovKathyHochul is fighting in court to keep kids in masks here in NY. Unscientific, out-of-touch and cruel. #UNMASKOURCHILDREN .
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I’m certain you’ve properly called it a Christmas tree your whole life.
The First Gentlemen selected the holiday tree which arrived yesterday — Bob’s Trees in Hagaman has some of the finest trees in New York State! . Can’t wait to see all the decorations from @rockcenternyc all the way to the State Capitol 🎄
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Parents in New York just want.@GovKathyHochul to treat our children.with the same level of consideration, respect and love she gives to criminals. #UNMASKOURCHILDREN.
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Look what's being taught in 10th grade at a Westchester HS & in schools around NY, according to many concerned parents who contacted me. Inappropriate, vulgar & criminal sexual content needs to be banned from classroom. Stick to core academic subjects. #revengeofthenormalpeople
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I’m proud of the campaign we ran & I’m forever grateful for all the love, support, prayers I’ve received this past year. Thank you!. I entered this race because our state is in crisis & Kathy Hochul has to go. Neither has changed and I will do all I can to help @leezeldin save NY
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We can’t go backwards to what didn’t work the first time. No more lockdowns. No more school closures. No more mandates.
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This is a lie. No one did more to ensure schools remained closed for over a year than you. This is why parents need much more control and choice when it comes to their child’s education. They’ll have it when I’m governor.
@Balance1512 @aspenideas We tried to reopen schools safely since April 2020….
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Not only will I lift all the unscientific & ridiculous C19 mandates when I'm governor, I’ll use my powers to compel NYC to end all of theirs as well, like the lunacy of masking toddlers and firing first responders. Enough! Help is on the way.
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I broke this story Friday on @710WOR:. Hundreds of undocumented immigrants from crisis at southern border flown into Westchester Co. Airport each of last several nights. Why was this a secret?.Where are they being resettled?.Who is paying?.Have they been tested for COVID?
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She finally caved when the political science changed. Her mask obsession for children was shameful and harmful. Never forget what she did to our kids. #UNMASKOURCHILDREN.
#BREAKING: New York's statewide school mask mandate will come to an end on March 2, Gov. Kathy Hochul said. Details here:
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Terrorist responsible for this NYC bombing is scheduled to lead a parade down 5th Avenue on June 11. Responsible NYers need to step forward
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When I’m governor I will get the masks off our kids and handcuffs off our cops.
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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. What has been done and continues to be done to children in New York is not only unacceptable, it is unforgivable. Nothing scientific or data-driven about this. This is abuse.
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You’ll take every action possible??. Last week’s subway killer was out on no bail, had 20 priors and 3 cases pending, yet you won’t repeal your broken no bail law. You talk about guns, yet NYC DA’s drop or reduce the majority of criminal gun charges and you say or do nothing.
As parents, as New Yorkers, and as Americans — we will not become desensitized. We are outraged, and we will take every action possible to end this senseless cycle of gun violence.
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🚨🚨🚨EXCLUSIVE*** New video shows the Biden administration’s secret migrant flights from the southern border are now also regularly landing at Stewart International Airport in Orange County (NY). Kathy Hochul does nothing and we the citizens pay all the bills.
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The inept decisions under guise of “doing something” aren’t contained in a vacuum. There will be consequences. Just as unscientific mandates created staff shortages at hospitals, lockdowns increased suicide & addiction, masking kids hurt development. Stop.
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On behalf of the millions of kids she fought in court to keep masked, the 34,000 health care workers she fired, all the victims of her bail reform… Rangers fans let @GovKathyHochul have it tonight.
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What has been done to children, and continues to be done to them nearly two years in, knowing what we know…. is unforgivable. The perpetrators like @GovKathyHochul must be held accountable. Vote them all out.
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This morning I joined hundreds in Buffalo rallying against @GovKathyHochul’s unscientific and cruel C19 mandates. We the people are fed up and change starts with changing governors. Help is on the way.
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There is no stay despite what some are saying. Hochul’s mask mandate is illegal. The science, data & now law is on our side. Yet @GovKathyHochul’s weird obsession about kids in masks and her refusal to relinquish control must end. Parents must end this. I will end this.
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As Governor, I would:. ✅ Lift all C19 mandates. ✅ Hire back fired HC workers. ✅ Shift to focused protection & testing strategy. ✅ Commission group of health pros to publicly discuss/establish early treatment protocols by risk category. Time to move forward, restore normalcy.
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What you’ve done to children in this state will not be forgotten.
The Appellate Division, Second Department just ruled that our mask regulations can stay in place while we appeal our case. Thank you to @NewYorkStateAG for her defense of these common sense measures. We will keep doing everything in our power to keep New Yorkers safe.
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As it soars into the mid-90s today, remember that daycare and pre-K kids in NYC are inexplicably still being forced to wear masks. When I’m governor, all the mandates are gone.
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I prefer talking about cutting taxes & rebuilding the economy (my record & my plans for NY) but we have a governor @GovKathyHochul so obsessed w/ masking kids, firing people over personal medical choices & coddling career criminals… that is where the fight is. We must win.
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If they are legal why are they done in the middle of the night and why so secretive and why are we being constantly ignored and lied to?.
‘SECRET FLIGHTS’ ALLEGEDLY TAPED IN ORANGE COUNTY: Gubernatorial hopeful, Rob Astorino, tweets video allegedly showing ‘secret migrant flights’ at Stewart International Airport in New Windsor, officials say flights are legal under U.S. immigration law. @RobAstorino
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Not only did all the mandates & lockdowns not help vs. covid in NY (most active cases of Covid & 6th highest death rate) but damage done to kids, jobs, etc caused several hundred thousand to flee state. @GovKathyHochul response? Even more mandates. Madness. I will free New York
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We sent our daughters to school today maskless just like @GovKathyHochul does and most kids around the country do. It’s time to up the pressure against Hochul’s power lust & her lunacy, especially the policies that negatively impact our kids. This must end. #UNMASKOURCHILDREN
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Kathy Hochul fired 37K health care workers over her unscientific & unconstitutional vax mandate. A real leader would admit they were wrong. Hochul doubles down. Not only refusing to rehire the needed workers, but falsely maintaining vax prevents infection/transmission. Shameful.
A NYS Supreme Court Judge has deemed the #COVID19 vaccine mandate for health care workers "null and void" saying @GovKathyHochul and @HealthNYGov overstepped their authority by mandating a vaccine that’s not included in NYS Public Health Law. Today, I asked the Governor about it:
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Right on cue. @GovKathyHochul not ready to give up control. Never forget, that despite the science, data & now legality not being in her favor on mandates, Hochul chose to fight to keep kids (as young as 2) muzzled for 8hrs/day - one of the last places on earth to do so.
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The only disaster emergency in NY is @GovKathyHochul Her lust for endless emergency powers and control is dangerous. The only way it ends, the only way we get back to normal, is by ending her reign. It should end now, it will end in November. Help me.
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New Yorkers are being crushed by skyrocketing utility bills. Maybe choking off our nuclear and natural gas supply wasn’t such a smart idea.
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Today I called on @GovKathyHochul to reinstate nearly 34K HC workers she forced out over her unscientific & harmful mandate. Not only does CDC admit vaccine doesn’t prevent transmission, but allowing vaxxed + infected nurses to work but not healthy unvax nurses makes no sense.
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Astorino: “Dropping Hochul is key to getting kids normalcy back.”.
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Our unelected governor has been an unmitigated disaster from Day 1. Every decision @GovKathyHochul has made has been the wrong one and every move she's made has hurt NY. Her day of reckoning is coming. Help is on the way.
BREAKING: New York Lt. Gov. Brian Benjamin resigns after arrest on bribery, fraud and conspiracy charges.
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It’s time our kids got their normalcy back in NY like nearly everywhere else in the world. It’s a disgrace it has taken this long. Never again. #UNMASKOURCHILDREN
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On the day of an awful attack that injured many in a Brooklyn subway, @GovKathyHochul's “defund the police" LG is arrested for a series of crimes. On Nov. 8 we begin draining the Albany.swamp.
BREAKING: New York Lt. Gov. Brian Benjamin has been arrested in a federal corruption investigation, U.S. prosecutors say. Benjamin faces charges of bribery, wire fraud and falsification of records.
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Full condemnation of anyone stalking and harassing an elected official in the bathroom or at their residence is the only correct answer. Only someone who has been in Washington for 48 years would think this potentially dangerous behavior is “part of the process.”.
Joe Biden says Senator Sinema being chased into the bathroom and filmed by activists there is “part of the process.” Yikes.
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Mommy Dearest - A child putting on a pair of sneakers is nowhere near the same as forcing them to wear a mask for up to 8 hours a day. @GovKathyHochul is painfully out of touch and is only following the political science. #UNMASKOURCHILDREN.
MASK MANDATES FOR CHILDREN: Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) says: "My daughter had a meltdown about having to put sneakers on to go to kindergarten. She got used to wearing sneakers in school. They adapt better than adults do."
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So many reasons to vote @leezeldin Tues. 2 big ones:. 1.) Zeldin will roll back Hochul policies that fueled crime spike starting w/ cashless bail. 2.) @GovKathyHochul masked toddlers, fired 37K HC workers & will mandate Vax for schoolkids. Zeldin will scrap all mandates on Day 1
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CBS: “The crushing impact our Covid policies have had on children” is the biggest underreported story of the year. @GovKathyHochul: “It’s not that big a deal” for kids as young as two to wear masks for 7/hrs a day.
“They will be paying for our generation’s decisions the rest of their lives”: @JanCBS explains why she thinks 2021's biggest underreported story was the devastating impact of COVID policies on children
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Andrew, your grandparents thought America was so great that they chose to come here. Radical liberals like Cuomo are showing their true colors and hate for our country. We’re not a perfect nation, but we are and always have been the envy of the world. #GodblessAmerica.
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.@GovKathyHochul has fired 34K HC workers. She’s set to fire thousands more on Monday if they don’t get booster. Stop firing people over personal medical decisions! Especially when @CDCgov:. 1️⃣Admits shots don’t prevent transmission. 2️⃣ Says natural immunity superior to vaccine
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I support the courageous Canadian & American truckers and the awesome 50-mile convoy happening right now to protest unscientific and punitive lockdowns & mandates. #TruckersForFreedom2022 🇨🇦 🇺🇸.
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States w/out the mandates have seen cases fall just as fast. When @GovKathyHochul says she’s not ready to take her “foot off the gas” what she really means is she’s not ready to take her “foot off our throats.”.
Hochul on the mask mandate being lifted: "We're in a much better place, but we have to decide what that looks like. We're not prepared to throw in the towel and say we're done fighting COVID.". "We're not taking our foot off the gas," she says.
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.@GovKathyHochul who forced out 34,000 health care workers orders over her mandate, now says Covid-infected HC workers can return to work just 5 days after testing positive?. End the mandates.
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A decision not based on science but rather on @GovKathyHochul’s vindictiveness and need to show who’s boss. We will show her who’s boss in November.
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Gov. Kathy Spiteful. Punishing kids because she lost in court and got her ego bruised. What a cruel woman. #UNMASKOURCHILDREN.
Gov. Kathy Hochul not ready to lift mask mandate for schools, she tells officials
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Please pray for the Yonkers police officer who was shot in the line of duty today.
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.@CBSNewYork all four candidates should be on stage for Monday night’s GOP Governor’s debate. That we’re still doing discriminatory and unscientific vaccine mandates when we’ve long known vax doesn’t prevent infection/transmission is PC theater. Stupid.
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Never forget, thousands of hospital beds sat empty at Javits, US Comfort, Westchester Co. Center & elsewhere as Andrew Cuomo was forcing ill-equipped nursing homes to admit infected patients. Trump delivered beds, Cuomo refused lifeline. Why? #CuomoCoverup.
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White House under fire for spreading crisis at border throughout interior of U.S. They insist “the flights only carry children and teens.”. This video is of buses from airport dropping off undocumented adult immigrants at the Costco in Port Chester. How many children do you see?
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End all COVID mandates immediately. Long past time for NY to join the rest of the country & world in returning to normalcy. And all those fired over the unscientific mandates must be reinstated.
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Has any reporter asked @LtGovHochulNY what she knew about the cover up of 15K nursing home deaths? What she thought about #Cuomo 3/25 EO? Anyone ask her if she’s ever witnessed the sex misconduct & bullying that’s been alleged by so many in recent weeks? Would seem pertinent, no?.
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Until our children are no longer forced.into masks, our front line heroes are.no longer fired over personal medical.decisions and until @GovKathyHochul.is no longer in office. we will not let.up. Not even an inch. #UNMASKOURCHILDREN.#NoMandates #HochulMustGo
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Today I called on @POTUS to release information on “migrant relocation flights” into NY. White House claims flights aren’t secret despite body cam footage I obtained showing gov’t contractor telling police flights are “on the down-low… everything is supposed to be hush-hush.”
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.@GovKathyHochul: “Look at what’s happening around the rest of the country… they don’t have a mask requirement.”. Yes, take a look:. Most active C19 cases -NYS #1.Highest C19 death rate -NYS #6. This is power lust combined w/ sunk cost fallacy. Time to end mandates/Hochul tenure
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Pretty simple solution to this staffing shortage. Hire back the 34,000 health care workers @GovKathyHochul forced out over her unscientific mandate.
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People like @GovKathyHochul who.refuse to give up power are exactly the type of people who should never have.it in the first place. Literally no scientific justification for mask requirements. None. #UNMASKOURCHILDREN.
NY Gov. Hochul’s administration formally extended its authority to keep mask requirements in place
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7 NYPD shot past 3wks.Murder rate⬆️ 57% past 2yrs. Attacks on cops, defunding police, Albany “bail reform” all contribute. My plan:. ✅ Fire @GovKathyHochul .✅ Restore cash bail.✅ Stop emptying prisons.✅ Remove DA’s who refuse to prosecute crimes.
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The wife of murdered NYPD officer Jason Rivera w/ a heartbreaking eulogy. Proud also of her strength for forcefully calling for an end to soft on crime policies and prosecutors. “The system continues to fail us.”. Enough.
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And it continues here in NY. @GovKathyHochul is currently fighting in court to keep kids as young as 2 in masks for up to eight hours a day, science be damned. Cruel.
Everything done to keep kids "safe" has been delusional, unproven, harmful mitigation that is not proportionate to the risks they face, harmful to their language and development, and has hurt a generation more than any other insult this century. The left failed kids.End of story.
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Many nurses and health care workers have told me they don’t want to be forced to be vaccinated and will leave if they are. We already have a nursing shortage. Do we really want to be firing essential staff who were yesterday’s heroes?.
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School mask mandates are being lifted everywhere they still remain except in NY where @GovKathyHochul is currently fighting in court to keep kids in masks for up to 8hrs/day. Cruel.
NEW: Massachusetts is lifting its statewide school mask mandate effective Feb. 28, Gov. Charlie Baker announces.
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Read the room Kathy. Working middle class families are being absolutely.crushed by inflation, at the pump and with their utility bills. Telling them to buy $80,000 electric vehicles right now is a special kind of tone deafness.
Reinstating the California Clean Air Act waiver will help New York fight pollution, make our communities healthier, and bolster our efforts to make all new vehicles sold in the state zero-emissions. Thank you to @POTUS & @EPAMichaelRegan for your leadership!.
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Headline is misleading. Only masks and passports are gone. Vax mandate remains. It shouldn’t. Neither at the city level nor at the state level. And all who were fired over the unscientific. mandate should get their jobs back.
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I am the only Republican candidate for governor holding Hochul below 50. And unlike two other GOP candidates in the race, I’m not even up on TV yet. This poll is bad news for Hochul. A Marist poll 8yrs ago to the day had me down 40pts to Cuomo. We closed that gap by over 26pts.
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Who suffers the most from the Democrats’ mandates/lockdowns/restrictions? ➡️ Working class, children, minorities. Who benefits? ➡️ Big tech, Big pharma, Big media, Big teachers unions. And who are the biggest donors to the Democrat party? Yep.
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Cuomo shutting down Moreland Commission hid Albany’s corruption. Cuomo botching vaccine rollout & destroying our economy is gross incompetence. But his Executive Order leading to the deaths of 13,000 seniors & lying about it is criminal negligence.
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You literally tolerated Cuomo’s bullying for six years. Full stop.
In New York State, we have no tolerance for bullying. Full stop. When kids go to school this week, some will choose to keep wearing a mask. Let's make sure we treat them with respect.
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Let me be clear: under your watch, New York’s decline has accelerated. Even worse than Cuomo. New York’s comeback starts with you getting sent back to Buffalo.
Let me be clear: Under my watch, New York will always be a safe haven for people who need abortion care.
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Thanks Governor - I just got stuck in 20 mins of traffic on NB Sprain at 287 so DOT can change the overhead signs from Tappan Zee Bridge to Mario Cuomo Bridge. Disgraceful abuse of power right before the primary and election.
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.@MassGovernor: “If we’ve learned anything from this pandemic it’s the damage that was done to kids should never be repeated.” 💯 .
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Andrew Cuomo just didn’t turn corrupt last month or last year. Sadly, his tenure has been a reign of corruption & intimidation that was long enabled by far too many (Dems AND some GOP) and has sadly accelerated the decline of New York State. #CuomoCoverup .
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Randi Weingarten demands COVID vaccine mandate for children in order to attend school. For what? To reduce risk from almost zero to…almost zero? . It doesn’t prevent infection or transmission. This is a decision for PARENTS to make, not a union boss.
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Hey @NYCMayor it's not swagger to continue to mask toddlers and prevent.cops, firefighters, nurses, teachers and others from working and some Nets, Mets, Yankees from playing based on an unscientific and completely ludicrous mandate. Still time to fix this mistake. #NoMandates.
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Hire back the 34,000 health care workers that @GovKathyHochul fired over her unscientific mandate. Problem solved.
There are now 40 hospitals in New York statewide that have been ordered to limit elective and non-essential procedures due to staffed bed shortages during omicron surge. Here’s the latest list from DOH:
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Kids are at very low risk from Covid. Vaccine doesn’t prevent infection/transmission as we’ve seen. So what could possibly be the rationale to mandate kids get this before they can attend school?.
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