My house is paid off.
No mortgage. No bank. Nothing owed.
Took I and my wife 22 years and every extra dollar we ever had.
Except property taxes are $11,000 a year now.
If we don’t pay, armed men show up and take a house we already own outright.
We also paid 32% in income tax this year.
Plus sales tax on everything we bought.
Plus gas tax every time we filled up.
We paid off the house.
We still don’t own the house.
We just stopped paying the bank and started paying everyone else instead.
TAXATION IS THEFT
Property taxes shouldn’t exist.
We are so close to ending this nightmare in New York!
@NassauExec and @hernandezforny plan on doing this unique concept called “common sense”.
You won’t even believe how great it will be!
@GovKathyHochul doesn’t know what those words mean…
If you have to have a meeting to figure out what a woman is, you're not fit to lead an organization. Even if that organization generally loses ~$50 million a year.
Mamdani just confirmed it…he and Kathy Hochul are in "constant communication" and he "appreciates her partnership."
Two allies, comrades with one agenda, and New Yorkers stuck with the bill.
When I am Governor, that partnership ends.
Many people are confused, so let me clarify: This program is ONLY for hookers in Buffalo and NYC (I’m not joking).
Hookers from Rochester, Syracuse, and Albany will need to continue utilizing the other free state-funded healthcare they were already getting through Medicaid or NGOs…
When I tried to review the un-redacted environmental assessment reports as they relate to Fort Edward Solar this past fall, I was met with dozens of pages of redactions.
I tried calling, visiting clerks' offices, and making appointments with ORES. That's when I learned ORES was not interested in hearing from the public at all.
I knew we'd have to buy unbiased science to know the true biodiversity at the Fort Edward Grasslands. We, American Land Rescue Fund, did just that by hiring Hudsonia Ltd. and a PhD ecologist to compile an environmental assessment (linking to it below).
To no one's surprise, our assessment was the first and ONLY piece of scientific literature on the scene here to address, or even acknowledge, pollinators and their dependence on grassland habitat.
Here are some photos I took this week, June 2026, at the Fort Edward Grasslands.
It's blanketed in milkweed, the ONLY host plant for the monarch butterfly.
Since the 1990s, we have lost over 80% of this butterfly.
Not too far from this grassland is another habitat for an endangered butterfly: the Karner blue.
As our assessment stated:
"There is a population of the Endangered Karner blue butterfly in the Saratoga Sandplains WMA (Shaw 2025) approximately eight miles southwest of the Fort Edward Solar site, and its larval host plant, wild blue lupine (Lupinus perennis) occurs in Washington County as well (NYFA 2025). There may be lenses of acidic sands in the glaciolacustrine clays, as is the case farther south in the Lake Albany terrain. Possibly both blue lupine and Karner blue occur in the IBA and they should be surveyed for."
I have learned that Boralex, ORES, and the @NYSDEC are not interested in surveying for that lupine.
Endangered species only matter to them when it complements their green energy grift.
In this case, the endangered pollinators and rare plants at the Fort Edward Grasslands stand in the way of a 100MW solar industrial complex that was sold-out to Canada.
So they omitted mentioning pollinators altogether.
While foreign-owned utility companies like NYSEG & Central Hudson are raking in record profits and sending millions overseas, folks in Upstate New York are rationing medicine and picking up a second job or extra shifts just to keep the lights on. It’s robbery.
I pressed @SecretaryWright to join our fight and help BAN foreign corporations from owning American utilities. Your money should stay in your pocket and our community, not line the pockets of executives halfway around the world.
No one has done more to help get the message out about ORES to the federal government than @johnrich.
I decided to start posting my content to X only one month ago. Within a week, Mr. Rich had seen and read what I posted and initiated a meeting. Having beaten energy company overreach before, it didn’t take him long to grasp what’s happening here in New York State.
Within a week, he engaged the federal government. There is much more to come.
I’m eternally grateful for him being a critical liaison for us here in Upstate NY. He was the final piece we needed to get this information into the right hands.
He is the perfect man for this job.
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Black pilot, West Point graduate, and combat veteran Wesley Hunt delivered a masterclass response:
“Hey Jasmine… Black pilot here.
I graduated from West Point. I went through Army flight school. I learned to fly the AH-64 Apache. I deployed to combat and flew 55 combat missions over Baghdad.
Nobody handed me a cockpit because of my skin color. Nobody lowered the standards for me.
Suggesting that Black pilots, engineers, doctors, or leaders need special preferences to succeed is not empowering, it’s insulting.
I didn’t want a different standard. I wanted the same standard.”
He ended with a powerful line:
“Merit isn’t racist. Excellence isn’t discriminatory. And reducing every achievement to skin color says far more about your worldview than it does about mine.”
This is the kind of clarity and backbone America needs right now.
Thank you for championing this issue, Lee! Beautiful Upstate New York land is being destroyed by Chinese solar farms. As the Trump-endorsed candidate for NY-21, I will fight tirelessly to destroy these solar farms like the one my opponent has. Sorry Bob, it has to go!
Read More:
https://t.co/d8Tt90gEcH
Appreciate @NassauExec acknowledging the ecological distinctions of Fort Edward, NY.
ORES is superseding our entire state’s @NYSDEC to force-install solar and wind complexes on environmentally sensitive land.
To get away with it, they allow the developer to redact every single piece of sensitive environmental information.
I’m currently suing the state over it!
In NY, a homeowner building a garage, a farmer expanding a barn, or a small business improving their property can spend years navigating environmental reviews, permits, hearings, and litigation.
But when a politically favored solar developer wants to industrialize thousands of acres, Albany suddenly finds a shortcut.
The Fort Edward Solar project exposes the double standard.
This isn’t an abandoned industrial site. It’s a grassland habitat recognized for its environmental significance and home to vulnerable species.
For most New Yorkers, impacts like these would trigger intense scrutiny and could easily result in denial.
Yet through ORES, state policy starts with a different assumption: the project moves forward, and the impacts are ignored.
Albany tells us farmland must be preserved. Habitat must be protected. Local voices must be heard.
But when those priorities collide with state energy mandates, the rules change.
That’s what frustrates so many New Yorkers: The sheer hypocrisy.
If these lands are worth protecting, protect them. If environmental standards matter, apply them consistently. And if local communities are expected to live with the consequences, their voices should matter before—not after—the decision is made.
Albany cannot claim to be protecting farmland, habitat, and local control while using ORES to override all three. Local voices matter. ORES should be disbanded.
I have no problem with giving children free lunches in schools. All students. Not a poverty program. Just if between bus time & school time they’re spending enough hours away from home feed them. At 20K to 30K a year for each student the $ are there.
Government: let’s spend millions making the waterfront beautiful and a destination for families.
Government: let’s build welfare towers on the waterfront!
New York State politicians want the tax-paying citizens of this state to fund a grant program that they pitch to solar companies.
NYSERDA gets that money from the delivery charge on your electric bill. It’s why you can’t afford your electricity payment.
The grant program will be shopped to foreign corporations intent on cashing in.
The “green” in green energy is nothing more than money.
The losers? Our wildlife, our water, and our environment.
These people must be stopped.