Hochul spent $2 million on outside ghostwriters for State of the State addresses: report

NY Post ^ | 4/15/2023 | Rich Calder

[1Old Pro]

Gov. Kathy Hochul reportedly authorized payment of nearly $2 million in taxpayer money for outside ghostwriters to help draft her State of the State speeches.

Most of the money was paid to Deloitte Consulting and the Boston Consulting Group to help the state’s first female governor shape her vision, according to the New York Times.

Hochul’s office shelled out $871,000 on three outside firms to help prepare this year’s speech – with Boston Consulting Group racking up the largest amount of $838,000 for what it listed in records as “SOS support.”

Representatives for three of Hochul’s predecessors — fellow Democrats Andrew Cuomo and David Paterson and Republican George Pataki — told the outlet they never paid for outside help to prepare for the annual address typically made each January.

[1Old Pro]

What these politicians do with taxpayer dollars is criminal. Granted Hochul is ignorant and stupid, but 2 million to sound smart....and it didn't even work.

[Dr. Ursus]

It’s good to be the queen!

[JonPreston]

She should have set aside some 💰for a mask

[Magnum44]

[1Old Pro]

She should have set aside some 💰for a mask

Even 2 million couldn't make her look better.

[Sacajaweau]

$50 million for the Susan B Anthony Museum etc...Rochester needs it like they need a hole in the head. It was 14 years after she died that women got the vote. We made her a martyr.

And remember....no blacks in the women's movement.

[Brilliant]

What an utter waste.

[oil_dude]

Let me guess, her sister wrote the speech

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Thank God we elect the best and the brightest. Imagine how much they would have had to pay BCG if she was dog-poop stupid.

[Texas resident]

Well, someone got a hell of a payday. Also the gov probably got her 10%. Biden shows the way.

[RckyRaCoCo]

Democrats perfected "the art of the deal"... when it comes to money laundering/stealing elections/brain-washing...

To beat them will require one to match their intellect deviousness.

...or use more "traditional/permanent" methods.

[liberalh8ter]

In the real world, you can't pay someone else with someone else’s money to do your job. This is government though, it's not the real world.

[bigbob]

She prolly fulnked riting in skool

[Gay State Conservative]

Campaign contributors? Relatives?

[SunkenCiv]

...with Boston Consulting Group racking up the largest amount of $838,000 for what it listed in records as "SOS support."

The state of the state is pretty much as can be expected, given that it's been run by the Demagogic Party for years. Cuomo and Patterson and don't forgete Spitzer were also unfit for the office, but all were unfit in different ways.

[Newtoidaho]

What a ridiculous c unit. Just like all liberal females.

[frank ballenger]

Some of the $2 million was for the chubby crayons used by kindergartners to learn numbers and letters. Cost more than usual Crayolas.

Also little juice boxes, Cheerios and apple sauce while they worked——hard——on those rewrites.

[Organic Panic]

I’d do it for half.

[cport]

Little bit of NO2, some good indica, and you could easily write the perfect leftist SOS speech for New York. Then you slip her a MAGA speech right before she gets to the lecturn, heh heh.

[ronnie raygun]

Horseface needs fictional writers to lie about the great progress she has made for NY and the bright outlook for the future