Westchester Insider: 2024 Election Desk: Radical Pete Harckham Working Against Constituent Interests: Arena.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: RADICAL STATE SENATOR PETE HARCKHAM WORKING AGAINST INTERESTS OF HUDSON VALLEY FAMILIES: ARENA. 

“Mr. Harckham Represents Everything That’s 

Wrong With New York Government Today.”

Hudson Valley - May 28…”State Senator Pete Harckham is working directly against the interests of Westchester, Putnam, and Rockland families, and his record proves it,” State Senate challenger Gina Arena today charged (SD-40, Westchester, Putnam, Rockland.)

“Pete Harckham may be the most disingenuous legislator in Albany today,” Ms. Arena said. “When he’s in the district he pretends to be a moderate, but once he gets back to Albany, Mr. Harckham is one of the most radical members of the State Legislature. He represents everything that’s wrong with New York government today, and his record bears that out.” 

Ms. Arena, a life-long Westchester County resident and a mother of eight, noted several bills championed by Mr. Harckham that are widely opposed by his constituents — and routinely omitted from Mr. Harckham’s taxpayer-paid constituent newsletters. Those measures include or have included: 

• Socialized medicine in New York State that would ban private health insurance and increase personal income tax rates from 6.65 percent to 18.3 percent for those earning $150,000 per year or more;
• Increased taxes on payrolls, dividends, and other income; 
• The $15 Congestion Pricing Tax; 
• The abolishment of local zoning laws in exchange for large, government-mandated multi-family apartment buildings in single-family residential neighborhoods; 
• Defunding any public school whose mascot could be deemed offensive;
• The banning of natural gas use in new homes; 
• The abolition of gas-powered cars by 2035; 
• Cashless bail, which has spurred the biggest crime wave in New York in decades; 
• Publicly funded college tuition for convicts; 
• “Free” healthcare for foreigners living in the U.S.;   
• Making New York a “Sanctuary State”; 
• Renaming the historic Hudson River span from the Tappan Zee Bridge to the Mario M. Cuomo Bridge, and 
• Legalizing recreational marijuana in New York without safeguards, leading to illegal and dangerous marijuana shops across New York State. 

“Every public poll shows that New Yorkers see their state moving in the wrong direction, and radical legislators like Pete Harkham are the reason why,” Ms. Arena continued. “Mr. Harkham is at the center of the woke lobby in Albany and his previous voters are now awakening to that reality. Families are struggling to put food on the table, and all Mr. Harkham seems to care about is higher taxes, massive new state government spending, and never-ending virtue signaling. It’s time for him to go.”