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.
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OMG! She slipped and told the truth.
The governor is using taxpayer funds for purchasing votes.
That should be a capital crime
H.L. Mencken a hundred years ago said “Elections are a kind of advance auction of stolen goods”
Leftists have certainly embraced the concept with a certain gusto. It always and ever ends the same way, but they don’t care
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