New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D.) got a much-needed boost for her controversial budget proposal, thanks to a secretive injection of millions from former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg. Through a “maze of shell groups and indirection,” the billionaire Democrat secretly infused a mundane-sounding dark money group called American Opportunity with $5 million in seed money to support the unpopular governor’s budget, the New York Times reported . Hochul has until April 1 to sell lawmakers on the $227 billion state budget proposal, which has drawn criticism from New York’s progressive lawmakers.
Bloomberg’s secret cash infusion comes as Hochul struggles to assert control over state lawmakers in Albany, after winning her first full term in November with much thinner margins than expected. But it hasn’t helped her with an already-inflamed left flank, who slammed Bloomberg’s covert public relations campaign.
“This is an absolutely disgusting show of financial power […]
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