REPORT: New Hochul appointee is an AOC-backed pol who wants to defund police

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

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Despite claiming that officials in her administration don’t support defunding police, Gov. Kathy Hochul has tapped a second person who does to a key post — a failed New York City Council candidate who wants to slash the NYPD budget by $3 billion.

On Friday, Hochul appointed Amit Bagga to be her deputy secretary for intergovernmental affairs. He lost the City Council primary in June for Queens’ District 26 seat despite support from Democratic socialist and defund proponent Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez’s political action committee.

The article goes on to state the following:

Bagga’s archived campaign website, which was taken down last week, says he wants to cut the NYPD’s budget by $3 billion, or about a third, within two to four years.

The Post noted that Bagga had also proposed “reducing the size of the force by 5 percent, removing cops from public schools and mental health responses, and “decriminalizing all drugs.””

Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-N.Y.), who is running for New York governor, tweeted, “Kathy Hochul keeps adding pro-criminal, anti-police radicals to her admin, like her new Lieutenant Governor, and then denying it. She just did it yet again with the appointment of Amit Bagga who has called for “dismantling” and “defunding” police.”

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