With just a few days until the unofficial Labor Day campaign season kickoff, the race for New York governor had a rather tense week.<\/p>\n
Topping this week\u2019s headlines, Republican Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman criticized opponent Gov. Kathy Hochul for wearing a hijab during a recent visit to an Islamic community center. Hochul fired back, pointing out that the attire was a common sign of respect, and accusing Blakeman of stoking division among New Yorkers. After President Donald Trump piled on with a similar critique tied to congestion pricing, Hochul responded on social media.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was a guest in a Muslim house of worship and showed respect for the people who welcomed me. That used to be standard in this country before you came along,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
On Friday\u2019s show, Capital Tonight broke down the multiple exchanges and other news from the week, including Hochul\u2019s statewide universal pre-K bump and what experts in the field are saying about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With just a few days until the unofficial Labor Day campaign season kickoff, the race for New York…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[206,295,9,11,10,49,51,50,12,112,108,63,87,200],"class_list":["post-338509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-albany-capital-region","tag-jack-arpey","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","tag-news","tag-ny-state-of-politics","tag-ny-state-of-politics-blog","tag-nyc","tag-politics","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338509","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=338509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}