she went to syracuse university and successfully protested apartheid, a movement joined on college campuses around the country. after law school, she married bill and she was in her third term as lieutenant governor when andrew cuomo resigned last month. andrew cuomo and his political operatives tried to drop her from the ticket in the last election but she mounted a campaign independent from the governor's campaign and she won. governor hochul is new york's first woman governor and the first new york governor from buffalo. kathy hochul is as of tonight the only declared candidate for governor of new york in next year's election in her first speech as governor, kathy hochul revealed that she had been