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Not 100% sure of protocol, but I noticed that footnote 17 is a link to a 404 page and does not have any content or support the sentence tis attached to. I didn't want to edit the main page, but wanted to make sure people know, so I'm noting it on the talk page.-— Preceding unsigned comment added by 160.83.73.18 (talk) 18:02, 6 August 2018 (UTC)
Looking at one of her ads, the proper pronunciation of her name is HOKE-ul. If anyone can convert that to IPA and put it in the article, that would be much appreciated. Thanks. Abeg92contribs 16:45, 10 May 2011 (UTC)
Just wondering, might she be of Swiss descent? There's a very similar family name in Switzerland, Hochuli. Gestumblindi (talk) 01:04, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
According to the Bob Turner talk page her term start date should be May 24, 2011. Can anyone confirm this?Racingstripes (talk) 00:29, 17 September 2011 (UTC)
There seems to be an edit war going on with respect to an article section called "The Bellavia Factor". To summarize, as best as I can make out:
The section in question does seem highly relevant to this article, and no objection was made against it as to content or sourcing. For these reasons, I intend to revert to the last article version that includes it, and request that further edits/reversions to it be accompanied by a fuller explanation here, on the talk page. --Hobbes Goodyear (talk) 05:17, 27 September 2011 (UTC)
Putting pre-election political positions into a section call "tenure" is simply incorrect and misleading. [1]. I agree with some of the changes made by JK under the rubric "clean up" but it makes absolutely no sense to put statements made before the election into "tenure" which refers to a time period of when the person is in office, and it is clearly a case of mislabeling. I also think doing this can lead to unnecessary qualifying and repetitive statements such as "during the election season...she said" and to original research pairing campaign positions with later statements and positions. The positions can be simply stated according to time, and confabulation and confusing chronology dis-serves both the reader and the subject. Finally, in the case of a politician who has served only a very short time in the office, lumping pre-election information into tenure gives the false impression of hyperactivity by a new member. See this section on the tenure of a recently elected politician which is the result of similar combining made JK for another example. In Bob Turner (politician)#Tenure at least half of the section is about pre-tenure positions. I will await further discussion, but I strongly believe the campaign positions should be listed or described in their own sections and not put in a section called "tenure" which leaves a false impression as to when the positions were stated or held. KeptSouth (talk) 10:29, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
I am referring to this change [2] in which two sections were lumped together and given a long title— "Early life, education and pre-congressional career"— with no reason given. Also, it seems silly and uninformative to use the term "pre-congressional career" when the subject of the bio is more than 50 years old, has a work history going back to the 1980s discussed in the article, and has only been in congress for a few months. Similarly, lumping this all together - "Early life, education and pre-congressional career"? does not aid the reader and creates a long section which in fact discourages reading. Per WP:Guide to layout#Body sections The section headings are used "to clarify articles by breaking up text, organizing content, and populating the table of contents that users can choose to view" and this change does just the opposite. In addition, the early life and education section is long enough to stand on its own. Therefore, I propose to revert back to the more informative and logical divisions of "Early life and education" and "Early career". Hopefully, I will get some discussion here - otherwise I will make the changes I have discussed. KeptSouth (talk) 10:32, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
According to multiple sources, she's been hired by M&T Bank as Vice President of Governmental Relations based out of Buffalo to lobby state and federal officials. 74.69.11.229 (talk) 23:12, 20 February 2013 (UTC)
Brian Cogan is a federal judge in for Long Island appointed by George W. Bush in 2006. I highly doubt that Kathy Hochul co-sponsored a bill in the U.S. House with him to address passports for residents to Canada. I DO heavily believe that she co-sponsored a bill with Brian Higgins. Can someone clean this up? 74.69.9.224 (talk) 02:34, 14 December 2013 (UTC)
Kathy Hochul is now Lieutenant Governor-elect of New York. 66.67.32.161 (talk) 03:47, 5 November 2014 (UTC)
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I noticed the line said: "If she ascends to the governorship, she would become the first female governor of New York State." This means that she should be the first female governor of the state if she ascends to this office. But however, I think it is a WP:CRYSTAL issue. Instead of taking the line away from the article, I am taking this to this talk because I think other editors might disagree on it. Anyways, should we remove this line from the article?----Rdp060707|talk 10:21, 5 August 2021 (UTC)
"She believes that free trade agreements" etc. speaks to her state of mind, which cannot be documented. "She argues (or maintains)" would be a more factual assertion. 207.144.137.130 (talk) 11:34, 9 August 2021 (UTC)
As of the date of this contribution: The Article has the sentence "In 2014, Governor Andrew Cuomo selected Hochul as his running mate in the 2014 New York gubernatorial election; after they won the election, Hochul was appointed Lieutenant Governor of New York." Neither assertion is footnoted. That's absolutely wrong on both counts. Nobody (after the 2014 New York State Gubernatorial Election) was APPOINTED Lieutenant Governor of New York. If a person wins an Election to an office, that person gets sworn in to the office and is NOT "appointed" to it. If the office is filled by "appointing", why have the Election at all? Just let the voters pick a Governor, who will then, after being Elected, appoint someone to be Lieutenant Governor.
Will you 'newbies' PLEASE, stop editing & let me fix up the infobox? The edit conflicts are annoying. GoodDay (talk) 16:29, 10 August 2021 (UTC)
Oh jeez, just when you had it set up so nice. Another editor comes along & bleeps it up, by deleting. We've been using the governor-designate method for years, whenever such situations occur. Suggest an RFC on this matter for this & future occasions. GoodDay (talk) 20:35, 10 August 2021 (UTC)
She is governor-designate. I see no justification to not list her as such. Cpotisch (talk) 01:04, 11 August 2021 (UTC)
I'll wait until after Hochul takes over as governor, to raise an RFC on this overall topic concerning how to handle this type of situation in a bio's infobox of a successor-to-be. FWIW, we used governor-designate during the Rhode Island transition, in March 2021. Mind you, that transition lasted only a few hours, as opposed to two weeks. GoodDay (talk) 15:23, 11 August 2021 (UTC)
PS: If my 'hidden' edit to the infobox is not reverted, during these two weeks? I'll forego the RFC & simply use this article as a precedent for continuing with the hidden method in the infobox. GoodDay (talk) 16:11, 11 August 2021 (UTC)
What does it mean to say that she's a former lawyer? Is someone no longer a lawyer if they stop practicing? DRosenbach (Talk | Contribs) 17:45, 10 August 2021 (UTC)
The formulation of this claim needs to be reexamined and adjusted. Syracuse University did not divest from South Africa until 1988. SU students were protesting between 1984 and 1988 to demand divestment. Perhaps Hochul was involved in earlier attempts to push for divestment and contributed to making progress towards such demands, but the campaign to push for divestment was certainly not concluded by 1980 when she graduated. Rendive (talk) 22:21, 10 August 2021 (UTC)
Is "north of Peekskill" a New York idiom? I ask because FDR, governor from 1929-1932, is from Hyde Park.
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Sine Governor Cuomo's resignation took effect just minutes ago, and that Mrs. Hochul is now officaly the governor of New York, I request that the Wikibox be changed to reflect this. Lobx10 (talk) 03:03, 24 August 2021 (UTC)
Per Huffington Post, Cuomo's resignation will take affect at midnight. That's 04:00, 24 August 2021 (UTC), at which time Hochul will immediately become the 57th governor of New York. GoodDay (talk) 03:35, 24 August 2021 (UTC)
Oath of office wasn't required to make her governor. It happened the exact moment Cuomo resigned. She just took the oath a few moments after. GoodDay (talk) 04:10, 24 August 2021 (UTC)
It says New Tork Chief Judge where I'm pretty sure it means to say New York.
There is a new photo for Gov. Hochul on the official New York government website. Are pictures from there fair game from copyright?--Jgtrevor (talk) 15:55, 24 August 2021 (UTC)
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Requested change in all caps below:
She served as Lieutenant Governor of [NEW YORK] from (2015-2021), United States Representative from New York's 26th Congressional District (2011-2013), County Clerk of Erie County (2007-2011), Deputy County Clerk of Erie County (2003-2007), & Member of The Hamburg Town Board (1994-2007). Waive (talk) 17:28, 24 August 2021 (UTC)
A discussion at WP:AN is being held, which may affect this article's subject & its predecessors. Input would be provided. GoodDay (talk) 23:00, 26 August 2021 (UTC)
What is Irish Catholic "descent"? Catholic is not an ancestry.... 021120x (talk) 01:36, 13 April 2022 (UTC)
Just wondering about some thoughts in terms of replacing the infobox image to one of Hochul in her current office (as Governor of NY). I found this one from April 2022. It looks good in quality and shows Governor Hochul whereas the infobox image is an outdated portrait (5 years) of Lieutenant Governor Hochul. --TDKR Chicago 101 (talk) 12:06, 17 June 2022 (UTC)
The lede currently says "Hochul was defeated for reelection in 2012 by Chris Collins after the district's boundaries and demographics were changed in the decennial reapportionment process"
It should end after "Hocul was defeated for reelection in 2012 by Chris Collins."
Besides reading like sour grapes, nothing in the article reflects this. The only source cited, under the 2012 section, doesn't even mention gerrymandering or the leanings of the constituents. Seems like original research, in other words.2604:3D09:C77:4E00:C08A:4A0D:84D4:751 (talk) 17:26, 6 November 2022 (UTC)
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Hochul has not been certified as the next governor of NY and should not be publicized until the results are certified by NYS BOE 2600:1700:880:9E80:946D:DCD0:73B2:3E7C (talk) 06:53, 9 November 2022 (UTC)
I've altered the edits regarding Senate Bill 4104-A as they violated WP:NPOV and WP:BLP. The sources may also need to be improved, as one of them appears to be a twitter image, but as a noob to editing I feel I would somehow mess them up. Might be worth keeping an eye on this article, especially if it's brigaded by emotional individuals from other websites. 2A00:23C7:F329:5D00:345B:141A:8ABC:DC9E (talk) 16:52, 29 December 2022 (UTC)
most other governors have this. Do not want to duplicate work. Joco179 (talk) 14:46, 9 August 2023 (UTC)
The "controversy" section of the article, which cites only Hochul's response to the Hamas terrorist attacks in Israel, seems to have been written with political bias. One could clearly argue that as the governor of the state with the largest Jewish population in the diaspora, her support of Israel was not at all "controversial," rendering this entire section unnecessary. Perhaps section title should be changed to "response to Hamas terror attacks" or "Israeli-Hamas War." Outheretryin (talk) 04:07, 17 October 2023 (UTC)
responses like those. We definitely can't use Awad's statement like that. --Aquillion (talk) 21:36, 17 October 2023 (UTC)
Numerous sources have referenced Hochul's reactions to protests in support of Palestinians as “abhorrent and morally repugnant.” Sources on this include AP, NYT, WAPO and many others. Something was added on it, alongside reactions, but it was removed, per above. Should something be re-added on this, not in a controversy section, but under her political views? Iskandar323 (talk) 16:48, 17 October 2023 (UTC)
I was going to add a wikilink to this article, but was prevented from doing so since it appears to be locked from editing. Please fix this ridiculous situation! 98.123.38.211 (talk) 22:54, 6 March 2024 (UTC)