Gov. Kathy Hochul batted away questions about being pegged as the “fall man” in Zohran Mamdani’s pressure campaign to tax the rich — saying publicly she’s not “frustrated” by political posturing by the mayor and his comrades.
Hochul slaps down being labeled Mamdani’s ‘fall man’ in tax-the-rich scheme: ‘I am not frustrated’
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March 05, 2026
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