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Michael Goodwin: Hochul is running scared from the pied-à-terre tax —but her prints are all over the proposed disaster

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You can follow politics for decades and never see an elected official run away from a problem faster than Gov. Hochul did Monday.

After a Staten Island judge halted the city’s muddled implementation of the unpopular pied-à-terre tax, the governor ducked any responsibility despite proposing the tax and pushing it through the Legislature.

On Monday, that history seemed like the work of a governor from another planet when Hochul shifted into the role of an innocent bystander so smoothly that it looked rehearsed.

At an appearance after the court ruling, she began by making an inane observation of the obvious, saying people are “frustrated with the rollout” of the tax but quickly shifted into “don’t blame me” mode.

“We are not responsible for the rollout,” she said shamefully.

“This is something that we talked to the city about in advance.”

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Trying to wash her hands of the disaster won’t fly given how she boasted about proposing the tax and defending it as fair and necessary.

President Trump certainly wasn’t fooled by her sudden claim of........

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