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Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul presides over a ceremony for the new arch welcoming visitors to Albany International Airport and the Capital Region on Friday, June 26, 2020, on Albany Shaker Road in Colonie, N.Y. (Will Waldron/Times Union)Will Waldron/Albany Times Union
ALBANY If Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo were to resign or be impeached, the potential first woman governor of New York is waiting in the wings.
Kathleen C. Hochul, 62, has served as New York’s lieutenant governor since 2015, the beginning of Cuomo’s second term in office.
Hochul s first big break in politics involved a politician whose career was enveloped by scandal.
arrow Lt. Governor Kathy Hochul at a COVID-19 press conference on January 25, 2021 Governor Cuomo s office
As Governor Andrew Cuomo stares down an investigation into sexual harassment allegations, there is one woman with a unique stake in what happens next for the governor. Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul, a native of Western New York and only the third woman to hold the office, is next in line should Cuomo resign or be removed from office.
If she were to ascend to the governor’s office, she would make history as the state’s first woman governor. She would also be the second Lieutenant Governor in a row to take over the job from a disgraced governor in 2008, Lieutenant Governor David Paterson suddenly became governor of the New York after Eliot Spitzor resigned amidst a prostitution scandal.
A third woman accuses N.Y. Gov. Andrew Cuomo of sexual harassment. Attorney Remi Spencer reacts.
If embattled three-term New YorkGov. Andrew Cuomo resigns or is removed through impeachment, Lt. Gov Kathy Hochul would make history.
According to Article 4 of the New York State Constitution, Hochul would take over as governor – becoming the Empire State’s 57th chief executive and first female governor in the state’s nearly 250-year history. If something were to happen to the governor, she s ready on day one, Erie County Democratic Party chairman Jeremy Zellner, a longtime Hochul friend and colleague, told Fox News. Kathy Hochul is somebody who grew up in the shadows of the steel plants here in Lackawanna and Buffalo and has served on several different levels of government.
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