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One and Only NY Gubernatorial Debate Tonight at 7PM on Spectrum News 1; Here’s How to Get It

October 25, 2022 | 11:38 AM
in NEWS, POLITICS
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NY State Capitol in Albany, 2009, by Bill Morrow, via Wikimedia Commons.

By Carol Tannenhauser

The candidates for New York State governor, incumbent Kathy Hochul (D) and challenger Lee Zeldin (R), will face each other for the one and only time in a debate tonight at Pace University at 7PM, airing on Spectrum News channels.

If you’re not a Spectrum subscriber, despair not! Spectrum graciously released the following instructions:

For Spectrum nonsubscribers, download the Spectrum News app, available to Android and iPhone users, then tap “Live” on the menu bar at the bottom of the screen to view the debate.

In addition to watching the debate on the Spectrum News app, viewers can also tune in on our website by clicking here. Click on the “Open Access” link, which will appear shortly before the debate begins.

But is this an “Upper West Side issue” that belongs in West Side Rag? Our commenters have shown that it is. Let us know your response to tonight’s debate below.

Here is a preview of the debate from Gotham Gazette.

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Wayne Z.
Wayne Z.
5 months ago

Flagrant gamesmanship on Hochul’s part to agree to a single debate. New Yorkers deserve a bit more than that. But I guess in today’s climate where everyone is so entrenched in their biases, what use is one debate let alone multiple anyways?

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Will
Will
5 months ago

They are both terrible. One supports criminals, the other wants to deny the election and take our rights away. Is there someone else?

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Leon
Leon
5 months ago
Reply to  Will

In what way does Hochul support criminals? She hasn’t been in office long enough to do much of anything. She has spoken of plans to tighten up the bail reform laws. And please don’t tell me she should have kicked out Bragg.

And what specifically are Zeldin’s plans? And once again, I don’t care about any of his beliefs, he voted against the peaceful transition of power because he was dumb enough or power hungry enough to agree with Trump’s made up lies. I would rather have someone who I disagree with on every issue than a morally bankrupt opportunist.

Much as the progressives who refused to vote for Hillary because she didn’t meet their purity tests are to blame for the Trump fiasco, those Democrats who vote for Zeldin because they think he will be tougher on crime are going to be to blame for our state becoming a nightmare.

And this is coming from someone who is extremely concerned with the increase in crime and really likes the Maria Danzilo ad running adjacent to my comment.

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CardiZ
CardiZ
5 months ago
Reply to  Will

Ask yourself what candidate can help your problems. Not a supposed flawed belief, but your day to day living in NY problems.

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Neighbor785
Neighbor785
5 months ago
Reply to  Will

Hochul doesn’t “support criminals”.

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OPOD
OPOD
5 months ago
Reply to  Neighbor785

Who does “Bail reform ” and “raise the age”, benefit? Who does Alvin Bragg benefit?

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Neighbor785
Neighbor785
5 months ago
Reply to  OPOD

AFAIK, Lamale McRae, who pushed a man onto the subway tracks in Brooklyn, was found, arrested, charged with attempted murder and other charges, and is in custody.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/suspect-nyc-subway-shoving-charged-attempted-murder/story?id=92064270

If Hochul were “supporting criminals,” she’d be trying to get McRae released.

On the other hand, I read elsewhere that McRae has ten priors, including assault and strangulation. I’m voting Danzilo for State Senator. Although some of the bail “reforms” enacted before Hochul began her term (Aug 24, 2021) have been walked back, judges’ hands should not be tied in deciding whether to set bail for misdemeanors based on the accused’s past.

Last edited 5 months ago by Neighbor785
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UWS Dad
UWS Dad
5 months ago
Reply to  Will

I don’t think ‘supports criminals’ is a fair characterization of Hochul’s beliefs or policies….

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Rez
Rez
5 months ago
Reply to  UWS Dad

Hochul shows zero conviction to actually punishing criminals. Even her recent measure to put more cops on the subways is only about preventing crime – as if the crime is silly disputes between children with no one person at fault.

This is why zeldin is surfing: people want to punish bad people. Until hochul shows that she does too, she’ll continue to drop in the polls.

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Common sense Joe
Common sense Joe
5 months ago
Reply to  UWS Dad

Sadly, however, a fair description of her policies is failure to support law abiding taxpayers by – for example – failing to remove progressive DA Bragg (think of throwing the book at thar poor bodega guy protecting himself from a robbery!) and failing to push for the end of the misconceived current bail laws so that those arrested for probable cause are released immediately without deterrence, and failing to figure out that making it difficult for law abiding citizens to get gun permits favors possession of guns by criminals who don’t give a hoot about permits.

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MJB
MJB
5 months ago

This is very helpful. Detailed information is very appreciated.

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MJB
MJB
5 months ago

I thought I would never say that but I hope WSR won’t publish any comments after the debate. It is a very delicate situation where things need to be discussed but lots of people will be hostile to each other. We want to hear different voices in the neighborhood but we don’t need extreme hostility between neighbors.

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Petr
Petr
5 months ago
Reply to  MJB

“We want to hear different voices in the neighborhood but we don’t need extreme hostility between neighbors.”

The solution is to censor “hostility” then, not quell debate. Seems like a lot of people are very comfortable with tuning out other peoples’ voices these days.

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Robert Spire
Robert Spire
5 months ago
Reply to  MJB

The homeless shelter issue hostility was honestly sad.

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Wayne Z.
Wayne Z.
5 months ago
Reply to  MJB

I respectfully disagree. Discourse ain’t always pretty, but it’s what it makes the world go ‘round.

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