Transit union gives big bucks to NY Gov. Hochul’s campaign while blasting her in public
to get the full version, which includes answers to reader questions, trivia, service changes and more, in your inbox every Thursday.Gov. Kathy Hochul an “enemy” of transit workers. But behind the scenes, his organization has poured cash into her campaign fund.
While Samuelsen oversees the international union, he explained the local chapter has “autonomy, and that includes the ability to make political contributions where it’s permissible.” He said no other TWU locals would be donating to Hochul.. Even as Samuelsen slammed the governor’s office for its conduct during the Metro-North negotiations, he supported Hochul’s decision in June to halt the tolling program.
Hochul, for her part, has said that the $15 base fare of congestion pricing “could break the budget of a hard-working middle-class household.”
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