Meet Kathy Hochul, The Lieutenant Gov. Who Will Succeed Andrew Cuomo
Tuesday he will step down as governor of New York following a barrage of sexual harassment allegations, ceding power to his second-in-command, Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul, who will be the state’s first female governor.... [+]Hochul, a New York native and a long-time public official, will take over as the state’s 57th chief executive in two weeks, Cuomo said as he announced his resignation Tuesday, and will serve for the remaining year of his term.
The 62-year-old has served as Cuomo’s second-in-command since 2015, during which time she’s chaired New York’s 10 Regional Economic Development Councils—a Cuomo initiative that’sover $6.9 billion into more than 8,300 projects across the state over the past decade, supporting over 240,000 jobs—and the state’s Task Force on Heroin and Opioid Abuse.
Hochul also spearheaded Cuomo’s “Enough is Enough” initiative, a campaign to combat sexual assault on colleges campuses, and during the Covid-19 pandemic, acted as a local liaison across the state, meeting with officials in 62 counties and conducting local media interviews. Cuomo named Hochul as his choice for lieutenant governor while running for his second term in 2014, two years after she lost her bid for reelection to Congress from the Republican-leaning 26th congressional district, a seat she was the first Democrat in 40 years to win, but then lost after one term following a redistricting.
Hochul, who had experience in local politics in Erie County, ran for Congress as a moderate"independent" Democrat and earned an endorsement from the National Rifle Association—making her a valuable asset to Cuomo in New York’s Republican-leaning counties.
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