Who is New York바카라 게임 웹사이트s incoming governor?
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Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul is set to take over as governor of New York after Andrew Cuomo announced he would step down from the state's highest office. Calls for Cuomo's resignation swirled after an investigation by the New York Attorney General's office found that he sexually harassed several women and broke state and federal laws.
Here's what we know about New York's next governor:
Who is she?
Kathy Hochul is a former congresswoman from New York바카라 게임 웹사이트s 26th district and is a licensed attorney. The 62-year-old will become the state's 57th governor and the first woman to hold the post.
Hochul is from Buffalo, New York. She graduated from Syracuse University in 1980 and got her law degree from Catholic University Columbus School of Law in 1984.
She served as the Erie County, New York, deputy court clerk in the early 2000s. She was appointed by then-Gov. Eliot Spitzer to take over as Erie County court clerk after her predecessor left office. Hochul later ran for the seat and won.
In 2011, she ran for New York's 26th district seat in Congress after Republican Chris Lee resigned.
Due to redistricting, Hochul's district was renumbered in 2012 and she lost the election to Rep. Chris Collins.
She won her seat as lieutenant governor in 2014 on a ticket with Cuomo. She won reelection in 2018. Hochul chaired New York바카라 게임 웹사이트s task force on heroin and opioid abuse and addiction. She also spearheaded a campaign to fight sexual assault on college campuses in New York.
Hochul has been a part of several high-profile controversies over the course of her political career. In 2007, she openly opposed Spitzer바카라 게임 웹사이트s proposal to allow undocumented immigrants to apply for and receive a New York driver바카라 게임 웹사이트s license. She said at the time that she바카라 게임 웹사이트d have any undocumented immigrants who applied for a driver바카라 게임 웹사이트s license arrested.
In 2018, she changed her position and said she supported a similar driver바카라 게임 웹사이트s license program.
After she left her position as court clerk, the new court clerk said he found a backlog of mail that contained more than $700,000 in checks. According to , the backup happened as a result of a new system implementation in the office shortly before Hochul left to serve as a congresswoman.
Hochul and her husband live in Buffalo with their two children.