Hallelujah! Torres, Lawler = real talent running for NY gov in 26

Rep.Ritchie Torres (D-Bx.) is on an all-out tear against Gov.

Kathy Hochul and the entire state Democratic establishment — and he’s not even the only hope for change to come to state government, as a major Republican challenge to Hochul’s re-election in 2026 is building with Rep.Mike Lawlor (R-Hudson Valley).For months, Torres has stood out, along with Sen.

John Fetterman (D-Pa.), as a true progressive who’ll also speak the truth about Israel and its wars of defense against Iran and its proxies.But he’s been firing on multiple fronts of late.

At a Citizen Budget Commission breakfast last month, Torres ripped New York’s “misgovernance” and insane anti-business climate.“There are regulations in place that make it impossible to do business ..

.and have made it impossible to build,” Torres thundered.And he went on to slam the Cuomo-Hochul energy policies that are sending electricity costs soaring while leaving state short of the power needed for economic growth.

More, he admitted that Prez-elect Donald Trump achieved what the smug Democratic Socialists only dream of doing — “uniting the white working class in rural America with the black and brown working class in urban America.”A week later, he turned to crime and public safety, slamming the gov, Mayor Adams and Dem lawmakers as “complicit” in the Ramon Rivera’s alleged “murder of three New Yorkers, who were savagely stabbed to death in a homicidal rampage that took hold in broad daylight.”“These tragedies are preventable but neither the City nor the State seem to possess the political will to prevent them, despite having the tools to do so,” he wrote in an open letter to Hochul and Adams.Mind you, the gov and even more so the mayor have called for changes to undo the damage done by “criminal justice reform” and the state’s prolonged refusal to confront the challenge of the dangerously mentally ill roaming free without treatment — but neither has crusaded for real...