Gov. Kathy Hochul speaks at a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the National Urban League's new headquarters. Getty Images

We have to give a wobbly Yay? to Gov. Kathy Hochul’s pause of an idiotic green mandate, since her record tells you she’ll let the pain kick in once the next election’s safely over.

On Wednesday, the gov officially put off her ban on natural gas in new homes and buildings under seven stories, yielding to upstate Assembly Democrats’ concern that the mandate has hiked construction costs threatening . . . their re-election chances.

But voters have every reason to believe the mandate will return once Hochul’s past the 2026 elections, just as her congestion-toll pause ended after the 2024 elections.

It’s not like she’s shown the least sign of taking up our challenge to

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