{"id":332179,"date":"2026-08-28T21:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T21:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/332179\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T21:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T21:10:08","slug":"ny-gov-candidate-blakeman-talks-utility-bills-lake-america-and-more-with-cny-central","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/332179\/","title":{"rendered":"NY Gov. Candidate Blakeman talks utility bills, &#8216;Lake America&#8217; and more with CNY Central"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GEDDES, N.Y. \u2014 Republican Candidate for New York State Governor Bruce Blakeman sat down briefly with CNY Central at the Great New York State Fair.<\/p>\n<p>Blakeman said he&#8217;s been to the fair a few times. He described what he&#8217;s been told by fairgoers on this trip.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They want change,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We&#8217;re the most overtaxed state in the United States. Our electricity bills are 70% higher than the national average. Kathy Hochul is the most pro-criminal governor. Our economic outlook is 50th out of 50 states. That&#8217;s a national embarrassment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You can watch the full interview in the YouTube video embedded above.<\/p>\n<p>Blake, who is currently the Dutchess County Executive, will run against incumbent Democrat Governor Kathy Hochul in the 2026 General Election.<\/p>\n<p>Election Day is Nov. 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GEDDES, N.Y. \u2014 Republican Candidate for New York State Governor Bruce Blakeman sat down briefly with CNY Central&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":["post-332179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}