EXCERPT:
HOCHUL: “No. I would say one energetic rally does not get me to change my positions. I assure you. But I do hear people’s voices, I process what everybody says, but I also have to balance governing this state and making sure that those people who are actually the reason we have a generous, supportive budget that helps lift people up, it’s their revenues that we tax. 1.5% of New Yorkers cover about a third of our budget. That s enormous. I’m concerned about out-migration of people who are the ones who are supporting our budget. I cannot make up for that with middle-class tax increases. I cannot do that to the middle class and the struggling New Yorkers. So this is the balance — I mean, this is my position.”