Gov. Kathy Hochul is personally lobbying key Dem state senators to back her nomination of Judge Hector LaSalle for top New York jurist — warning at least one she will “remember” whoR…
“I will make sure – whatever means it takes — we’ll get this done,” she said of LaSalle’s nomination, while accusing opposing Senate Democrats of “character assassination” for knocking the judge over a handful of cases he oversaw during his time on the state Supreme Court’s Appellate Division in Brooklyn.
But several observers pointed to noticeable silence from Hochul’s deputy secretary for intergovernmental affairs,a supporter of the “defund the police” movement, which would presumably be against LaSalle’s appointment.
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