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Kathy Hochul: “I knew as governor, if I could invest more money into…”

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Governor Hochul Announces Long Island Winners of Downtown Revitalization Initiative

Published | Video Starts at 05:30

Kevin knows how many days I was here, but also going to every single diner, every single candy shop, and such an appreciation what you have here. So I knew as governor, if I could invest more money into communities and not tell them what to do, but to allow them to come up with their own vision, what their residents want to see. And that's why I love this downtown revitalization program so much, because that's exactly what it does. It empowers localities to be able to fund a vision that they otherwise could not. (05:30–05:43)

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Asserts a policy of investing in communities to allow local vision without state imposition.

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