Kathy Wylde

I'm certainly going to help Governor Hochul deal with her challenges.

I've worked closely with her.

She's done a great job.

And I think we're counting on her to continue to manage New York's relationship with Washington and the relationship between the state and the city, which is very important.

Our affordability problems will not get solved by the city alone.

This is going to take federal, state, city cooperation.

And so I think all of us who are committed to New York City and future, we have to be thinking of all three levels of government and how we work with the leadership at all levels.

Well, there's been quite an evolution since he won the primary.

So in terms of his having a more nuanced position on a lot of the policies.

During the primary campaign, there were a whole slew of candidates and everything was one-liners.

And the social media stuff was one-liners or show and tell.

When you get into a conversation with CEOs, they want to hear data, they want to hear facts.

And I have watched him evolve and grow over the last eight months where we had conversations last week, one on housing, one on child care, where he was there with a pen and a notebook, taking notes, asking questions, and coming back with very substantive responses.

So he has absorbed a lot and is now digging deep on these issues that...

Ken Griffin expressed concern about the fact that he made a lot, raised a lot of expectations, created a lot of idealistic notions about housing and childcare and how we can do all this for free.

I think he's very quickly figuring out none of this is free.

Raising taxes creates real issues.

You may raise the rates of taxes, but that may not result in more revenues if you scare people away, or if you scare companies away, or as we've seen lately, we're seeing a real threat to jobs in New York.

We, for the first time in my experience over 50 years, are seeing a decline in the number of jobs in our financial services industry.

Scary thing, that's 40% of our state income tax revenues.