Gov. Kathy Hochul crisscrossing the state by aircraft has cost taxpayers at least $170,000 since she took office.
“It’s easy for her, it’s coming out of our pockets! If she had to pay for it she wouldn’t fly to these things,” Otto Nunez, 54, grumbled as he gassed up with Chevy Express work van at a BP gas station in Queens.
Gov. Kathy Hochul frequent flights around New York state have cost taxpayers at least $170,000 since she took office.“I’m not sure she knows or cares what the rest of us are dealing with today. I think she’s oblivious,” Joanna Saltos, 51, said while pumping $20 worth of fuel into her Toyota in Queens on Monday.
Lyft driver Joanna Saltos said Hochul must be “oblivious” to the struggles New Yorkers are facing at the gas pump.The governor altogether flew at least 140 times, collectively running about 131 hours in the seven months after she took over last August for ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who“Why are you taking all these flights and we’re paying for them?” griped Tommy Hondros, 35, of Bay Ridge, who says he spends $120 each week commuting from Brooklyn to Chelsea.
“I really don’t care. I’m a broke college student and when you breakdown the $170,000, how much am I really paying? It probably doesn’t reach me so [Hochul] can do whatever she wants,” a Long Island University student named Tony, 22, told the Post. “The governor’s limited use of state aircraft does not impact gas prices, and she suspended gas taxes for all New Yorkers through the end of the year,” Crampton-Hays added.
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