Soft-on-crime Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg has become a big problem for Gov. HochulBy Charles Gasparino
January 15, 2022
Gov. Kathy Hochul looked like she had the state’s fat-cat donor club so in her pocket that she could easily glide above a couple of Democratic primary opponents — and whomever the GOP throws at her in the 2022 governor’s race.
Then came Alvin Bragg.
I hear that several Big Business community fundraisers who have either given to Hochul or planned to do so are now looking to play hardball because she’s gone silent on the new Manhattan DA and his loopy get-out-of-jail card for criminals.
Bragg has become the poster child for “progressive” reforms thanks to a leaked policy mandate that outlined his heinous plans to allow most criminals to go free. And as I was first to report last week, the New York business community is going nuts. The city needs business and tourism in Manhattan to flourish or it’s doomed.
Continued high crime is the quickest way to kill the city’s economy (remember pre-Giuliani NYC?). So big biz bombarded their normally reticent lobbying group, the Partnership for New York City — and its normally restrained CEO, Kathryn Wylde — with some blistering calls for action.
‘Misunderstood’?After feeling like a piñata, Wylde turned to Bragg and asked for a meeting. He politely obliged and told Wylde his policies were being “misunderstood,” without specifying what part of the memo that he wrote was taken out of context.
If it’s hard to digest the absurdity of all of that, you’re not alone. Members of the partnership — which includes some of the biggest, most powerful players in corporate America since nearly all the big banks and real estate outfits are located here — aren’t waiting for their Jan. 21 scheduled meeting with Bragg to take action.
In fact, as I’ve heard from several NYC business leaders, they’ve heard enough from Bragg already and want either him out or his policies banished to some Ivy League college safe space.
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Source:
https://nypost.com/2022/01/15/manhattan-da-alvin-bragg-has-become-a-big-problem-for-gov-hochul/