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(147,532 posts) Sun Feb 23, 2025, 06:49 PM 4 hrs ago

Hochul says Democratic governors won't "sit idly by" as Trump threatens retaliation

Source: CBS News

February 23, 2025 / 12:13 PM EST

Washington — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said Sunday that Democratic governors won't "sit idly by" as President Trump threatens to retaliate if state leaders don't comply with his agenda. "Don't think that you can just come in and bully us around and not expect a reaction from governors," Hochul said on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan."

When governors from both sides of the aisle met with Mr. Trump at a White House event Friday, the president called out Maine Gov. Janet Mills, saying that her state wouldn't get federal funding if it doesn't comply with an executive order barring transgender athletes from competing on women's sports teams. Mills replied, "See you in court."

Hochul said Mr. Trump and his administration are "flooding the zone," citing disputes over FEMA recovery funds in California, lawsuits in Illinois and the confrontation with Mills.

"What they're trying to do is create this theater of all kinds of activity that is trying to be a distraction to us," Hochul said. "And when someone floods the zone in a football game, what you need to have is the defenders be very disciplined, smart, but also stand their ground."

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kathy-hochul-trump-face-the-nation/

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Hochul says Democratic governors won't "sit idly by" as Trump threatens retaliation (Original Post) BumRushDaShow 4 hrs ago OP

I'm so proud of claudette 4 hrs ago #1

She's been a good surprise. Never heard of her before she became governor. Scrivener7 3 hrs ago #3

Kathy Hochul had a really interesting upbringing. Both of her parents were civil rights activists lapucelle 3 hrs ago #4

Nice. Thank you for that. Scrivener7 3 hrs ago #5

Thanks claudette 2 hrs ago #6

I didn't hear much about her claudette 1 hr ago #7

Supposedly we're getting wiped off the map stillcool 3 hrs ago #2

claudette

(5,058 posts)

1. I'm so proud of

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Sun Feb 23, 2025, 06:55 PM

4 hrs ago

my Governor for speaking out. Come on other Dems. Follow her lead!!

Scrivener7

(54,067 posts)

3. She's been a good surprise. Never heard of her before she became governor.

Reply to claudette (Reply #1)

Sun Feb 23, 2025, 07:13 PM

3 hrs ago

lapucelle

(19,764 posts)

4. Kathy Hochul had a really interesting upbringing. Both of her parents were civil rights activists

Reply to Scrivener7 (Reply #3)

Sun Feb 23, 2025, 07:47 PM

3 hrs ago

and Vietnam War protestors. She started volunteering with the Democratic Party when she was still in high school. And her family struggled financially as she was growing up

Her Inheritance: An Eagerness to Serve

Her parents instilled a sense of civic responsibility in the children, driving them into poor neighborhoods in Buffalo to deliver the food, clothing and furniture that the family had collected. And yet the Courtneys [Governor Hochul's maiden name] struggled themselves. “We used to shop at the used-clothing store,” Ms. Heinze recalled.

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In high school, Ms. Hochul acquired her interest in politics, after a teacher took her class to Buffalo City Hall for a tour. She began doing volunteer work for a variety of politicians during summer vacations.

In 1976, she went to Syracuse University, where she became something of an activist, one time leading a boycott of the college bookstore after students complained that the store was charging outrageously high prices. (By then, her father had gone to work at an information technology company, where he rose to become president.)

In college, she also threw herself into another cause: trying to persuade the university to name a stadium it was building after Ernie Davis, the legendary Syracuse running back who died of leukemia at a young age.

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/30/nyregion/kathy-hochul-inherited-an-eagerness-to-serve.html

Scrivener7

(54,067 posts)

5. Nice. Thank you for that.

Reply to lapucelle (Reply #4)

Sun Feb 23, 2025, 07:56 PM

3 hrs ago

claudette

(5,058 posts)

6. Thanks

Reply to lapucelle (Reply #4)

Sun Feb 23, 2025, 08:58 PM

2 hrs ago

I was not aware of all that.

claudette

(5,058 posts)

7. I didn't hear much about her

Reply to Scrivener7 (Reply #3)

Sun Feb 23, 2025, 09:02 PM

1 hr ago

either, as she was Lt. Governor under Cuomo and became Governor when he resigned because of allegations of sexual harassment.
She's from Buffalo which is near my home in western NY

stillcool

(33,213 posts)

2. Supposedly we're getting wiped off the map

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Sun Feb 23, 2025, 07:06 PM

3 hrs ago

Trump reveals 'surprise' and warns Blue states will disappear off map
President Donald Trump said there is a 'big, big surprise' in store for Democrats in next year's midterm election as he warned blue states will 'totally disappear off the map.' Trump disregarded the age-old political theory that the incumbent president's political party loses seats in Congress in the midterm elections.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-reveals-surprise-and-warns-blue-states-will-disapear-off-map/ss-AA1zvtaX

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