It’s 5 p.m. in New York, and while the state budget allegedly makes progress, special interests of all stripes in Albany are moving at a sprint. If your inbox has been hit by a wave of frantic emails from “Citizens for Affordable Rates,” don’t mistake it for a grassroots uprising. It’s a textbook astroturfing campaign bankrolled by Uber and the insurance lobby, designed to prop up Gov. Hochul’s car insurance scam that guts the rights of crash victims under the guise of “affordability.”
But while Big Tech is busy manufacturing fake constituents, real New Yorkers are dealing with the very real consequences of a state that refuses to rein in its deadliest drivers. In the Bronx, the community is officially done waiting for “voluntary compliance” from the super-speeders who have turned residential corridors into lawless drag strips. Backed by Manhattan Borough President Brad Hoylman-Sigal and Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, a new push is demanding that the state stop treating reckless driving like an inevitable byproduct of life and start treating it like a policy failure that requires immediate intervention.
Stick with us for the full breakdown of who’s actually driving the insurance debate and how the fight for safer streets is far from over.