Six weeks after Mayor Zohran Mamdani spent his very first veto killing a City Council bill that would have pushed protesters back from schools, Governor Kathy Hochul accomplished the same thing across all of New York State, folded it quietly into the $268 billion budget, and then told reporters she never discussed it with him. “We have a lot of conversations,” Hochul said, “but just not on this one topic,” per JNS. On May 31, she signed it in a Cipriani ballroom full of about 600 Jewish community leaders, according to The Jewish Star.
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Mamdani used his first veto to block a protest-buffer bill on free-speech grounds. Hochul slid a statewide version into the budget and never told him.
Governor Kathy Hochul signed legislation creating 50-foot security buffer zones around New York houses of worship, prohibiting protests near religious sites.

Mamdani used his first veto to block a protest-buffer bill on free-speech grounds. Hochul slid a statewide version into the budget and never told him.
Governor Kathy Hochul signed legislation creating 50-foot security buffer zones around New York houses of worship, prohibiting protests near religious sites.

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