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To the editor:
Governor Kathy Hochul recently filled 19 vacant judgeships which had been vacant for months. Her nominees were notified two days in advance. State Senators were notified one day before being asked to vote. Rather than voting on each nominee individually based upon qualifications, all 19 were combined under one vote. There was no time allocated for any hearings or review of nominees credentials.
Hochul and State Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins promised honest, open, transparent and above board government. Just like their predecessors, it is business as usual with the Albany Democratic State Party clubhouse machine. Nothing has changed, except that the "three men in the room" are now two women and a man in a room — Hochul, Stewart-Cousins and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie.
Larry Penner
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Considering some of the poor choices Gov. Hochul has made when nominating judges, it is not surprising that she would want to sneak through a quick confirmation of these choices. She has trouble choosing one good judge. I don't have confidence in her ability to choose 19.
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