David Dipietro

Gov. Hochul delivers her executive budget proposal. Assemblyman David DiPietro (R,C-East Aurora) was critical of Gov. Kathy Hochul's executive budget proposal today. With ongoing concerns about the state’s high cost of living and an election year underway, the governor stressed affordability in her remarks despite record-setting budgets in each of her five years in office.   “Hochul is trying to position herself as a champion of affordability, but let’s be honest, for five years she’s been...

Recent memo downgrades attacks by inmates as “harassment” or “disruptive behavior” instead of assaults.  Assemblyman David DiPietro (R,C-East Aurora) today blasted Gov. Kathy Hochul’s latest Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) memo  as a cynical attempt to rewrite reality amid escalating violence inside New York’s correctional facilities. Since the governor signed the HALT Act in 2022, inmate-on-staff assaults have surged nearly 40%, while inmate-on-inmate violence has...

A Statement from Assemblyman David DiPietro (R,C-East Aurora) I am appalled, yet utterly unsurprised by Gov. Kathy Hochul’s shameless op-ed attempting to justify her support for the Medical Aid in Dying Act. This isn’t compassion; it’s a dangerous assault on the sanctity of life, dressed up in flowery rhetoric about “individual choice” and “bodily autonomy.” But coming from Hochul, it’s nothing more than rank hypocrisy from a governor who has spent her entire tenure trampling on the very...