State Sen. Jeremy Cooney basked in praise from Gov. Kathy Hochul before saying hours later he does not support her bail proposal after all.
State Sen. Jeremy Cooney caved to pressure from the political left late Tuesday night — just hours after Gov. Kathy Hochul sang his praises for being“Our state law allows for those accused of violent crimes or repeat offenders to be held. And we must continue to give judges the tools to enforce these laws,” Cooney said at a Hochul event in Rochester Wednesday.
But after cameras stopped rolling and daily newspapers went to print and web, Cooney expressed a change of heart in a statement to The Post sent via a spokesman late Tuesday night. “My response of ‘WTH?’ was quite spontaneous,” Kelly Cheatle, a Rochester member of the Working Families Party, told The Post of criticizing Cooney soon after he spoke.
Republican political consultant William O’Reilly noted that Cooney’s apparent fear of the left makes Hochul look weak with the Legislature just weeks ahead of the state budget deadline. “Senator Cooney was correct the first time … The “least restrictive means” should be removed. But that’s just a Band-Aid. Bail reform must be repealed and there needs to be consequences for people who commit crimes,” state Sen. George Borello said.
Cooney denied that he changed his position on bail reform when asked by The Post at the state Capitol on Wednesday while nonetheless citing a letter from 100 prominent Rochester citizens to state reps demanding they support Hochul’s bail proposal.
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