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Gov. Hochul criticized for telling black churchgoers not to buy booze with inflation refund checks
NY Post ^ | 9/10/25 | Vaughn Golden, Natalie O'Neill

Posted on 09/11/2025 12:38:09 AM PDT by Libloather

Keep your tip-sy to yourself!

Gov. Kathy Hochul is in hot water for telling parishioners at a largely black church not to buy booze with their incoming state “inflation refund” checks — with fellow pols slamming her comments as tone-deaf and “demeaning.”

“It reduces whole communities to harmful stereotypes and strips away the dignity of parents and children alike,” said her estranged Lt. Gov. Antonio Delgado, who, along with Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY), blasted Hochul as racially insensitive.

Hochul was speaking about rebate checks — which will be sent to eligible residents starting later this month through November — at True Bethel Baptist Church in Buffalo Sunday when she made what critics called a harmful, off color remark.

“Checks are coming out soon, watch the mail. Okay? Okay? Don’t spend it all in one day. Get something you really need. Okay? Don’t stop by the liquor store. Buy something for the kids. Buy them some food,” she said, prompting a loud, mixed reaction from the congregation. “Sometimes I have to stop by the liquor store too, I understand it’s alright. It’s alright.”

Delgado — Hochul’s lone major Democratic primary challenger so far in next year’s gubernatorial election — said the powerful pol has a history of leaning into dangerous stereotypes.

“This is not the first time Governor Hochul has demeaned Black communities with her words. Last year, she claimed young Black kids in the Bronx didn’t even know what the word ‘computer’ was. Now, from the pulpit of a predominantly Black church, she warns families not to spend their rebate checks at the liquor store,” he said in a statement.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Education; Food
KEYWORDS: booze; curtissliwa; hochul; inflation; kathyhochul; newyorkcity; refund; walkaway; zohranmamdani
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To: Libloather

I am with her on this one...somebody has to address the lack of impulse control in the feral population.
Look at how unhinged so many are of all races being told that they can no longer buy snacks or get their hair and nails done using ebt, etc.


21 posted on 09/11/2025 3:13:07 AM PDT by Adder (End fascism...defeat all Democrats.)
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To: albie

“When I drove a cab in the 70s in Alexandria, section 8 runs to the liquor store went off the charts at the end of each month when the welfare checks came in.”

...as did hospital emergency rooms.


22 posted on 09/11/2025 3:26:15 AM PDT by VMI70 (My Goal in Life is to be the Kind of Person My Dog Thinks I Am)
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To: Libloather

NYC deserves mamdani.


23 posted on 09/11/2025 3:48:27 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 "/!i!! &@$%&*(@ -')
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To: albie
I used to read Ebony magazine once in a while. Somewhere near the masthead they had a sidebar for potential advertizers, telling them that Ebony readers spent a higher portion of their income on clothing, liquor, tobacco, and cosmetics than readers of other media. Judging by the advertisements, ad buyers believed them. Kools, Seagrams, and Posner.
24 posted on 09/11/2025 3:53:28 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Nullius in verba)
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To: alexander_busek

25 posted on 09/11/2025 4:00:28 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Libloather

Sounds like HoHochul stereotyping blacks again. “Black churchgoers” are boozers?


26 posted on 09/11/2025 4:10:08 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Voting is free. It doesn't cost you anything. In today's America, not voting costs you everything.)
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To: Libloather

There it is.


27 posted on 09/11/2025 4:29:45 AM PDT by sauropod
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To: Libloather

“Don’t blow it all in the brothel”


28 posted on 09/11/2025 4:35:39 AM PDT by chuckee
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To: Texas Eagle; All

The Bronx is going to vote against the madman in mass. It is quickly turning red.


29 posted on 09/11/2025 4:39:03 AM PDT by cowboyusa ( YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA AND HE WILL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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To: albie

I drove a yellow cab out of Falls Church, played rock and disco gigs around the metro area, started cab driving around 3am, worked through the rush hour, hit the sack around noon woke up around 5pm, next gig at 8pm wash, rinse, repeat, it was a rough couple of years but I had youth and vigor on my side. Had a laborers job too,when I could squeeze it in.


30 posted on 09/11/2025 4:39:11 AM PDT by Clutch Martin ("The dawn cracks hard like a bull whip and it ain't taking no lip from the night before" Tom Waits)
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To: Libloather

@GovKathyHochul
That’s a Lefty for you - so racist and comfortable in their racism that they don’t even notice when they say it out loud...


31 posted on 09/11/2025 4:49:58 AM PDT by trebb (So many fools - so little time...)
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To: Libloather

The rodents have been treating Black Americans like children for 60 years and they are not about to stop. Blacks are the only ones who can change this relationship and they are slowly coming around to recognize the truth.


32 posted on 09/11/2025 4:58:24 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Freedom is never free. It must be won rewon and jealously guarded.)
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To: Libloather

Ok.

They’ll buy weed.


33 posted on 09/11/2025 4:58:43 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Right_In_Virginia’s 84% Plausibly Anti-Semitic posts put him at #1! Any challengers?)
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To: Libloather

Made me recall how Slick Willy promised Americas a rebate check during his campaign, but once elected reneged saying more or less that we Americans couldn’t be trusted to spend our money intelligently. Democrats believe only they have the right to spend our money stupidly.


34 posted on 09/11/2025 5:13:01 AM PDT by Mastador1
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To: Libloather

She probably wanted to say crack cocaine and meth, but didnt dare


35 posted on 09/11/2025 5:19:06 AM PDT by Bob434 (Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana)
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To: Bob434

Fentanyl........ that’s what they shouldn’t buy.


36 posted on 09/11/2025 5:35:56 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Where is ZORRO when California so desperately needs him?)
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To: Libloather

“And don’t buy laptops, since you people don’t know how to use them.”


37 posted on 09/11/2025 5:36:46 AM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: Libloather

How dare she tell people how to spend their walking-around money...


38 posted on 09/11/2025 5:39:56 AM PDT by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
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To: Libloather

“Inflation Refund Checks”

There’s so much Stupid wrapped up into that. LOL

This nation needs an Industrial Enema


39 posted on 09/11/2025 5:53:07 AM PDT by Freedom4US
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To: Libloather

OMG! She slipped and told the truth.


40 posted on 09/11/2025 5:53:31 AM PDT by kenmcg (ti hi o)
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