Thanks to Kathy Hochul, you paid for the Bills’ – Latest News
Ouch: Gov. Kathy Hochul’s new Buffalo stadium opened with a splat final weekend, as irate followers found a plethora of obstructed views, amongst different woes.
As you might recall, making taxpayers fork over $850 million for Highmark Stadium was Hochul’s high precedence in her very first funds back in 2022, months after she changed Gov. Grabbyhands.
To get the Legislature to OK the plan ($600 million in state funds plus $250 million from the taxpayers of basically-broke Erie County), the gov went together with:
Upping whole spending by $4 billion (although perhaps she didn’t thoughts a lot as she’d go together with far worse in the years that adopted).
Minimal renewal of mayoral control of New York City’s public faculty system (plus a few poison capsules that lowered that control).
Far-less-than-needed fixes to the no-bail law and different 2019 “criminal justice reforms” (she then got here back for more modifications yr after yr after yr — whilst she’s signed on to different “reforms” that additionally velocity perps’ exit from jail).
Of course, the gov insists she’s a big Bills fan — although she skipped the group’s conference-championship playoff recreation in 2024 for . . . a fundraiser in Manhattan, properly over two years earlier than her subsequent election.
Hmm: Florida-based billionaire Bills proprietor, Terry Pagula, and his spouse this yr donated $176,000, the legal most, to the gov’s re-election bid ($18,000 every to her marketing campaign, $138,000 to the state celebration).
Plus, the stadium giveaway was one other Hochul transfer that appeared to benefit her husband’s lawyer-lobbyist profession.
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Now, add this irony: Taxpayers lined up practically 40% of the price of stadium whose design appears to be like like authorities work, with weird balconies, unusual stairways and ridiculous railings blocking views of the discipline.
Not to point out the loos accessible solely from the backside of seating tiers.
Bills followers: Every time you miss a play as a result of you can’t see a quarter of the discipline, or had to stop to breathe on the manner back from recycling a beer, remind your self: This is the House that Kat constructed.
