NY Governor Kathy Hochul caught lying about being a 'regular' at city diner

A New York City diner proprietor roasted Governor Kathy Hochul after she claimed to beryllium a regular astatine his Manhattan eatery. 

At a property league Thursday to sermon a revived congestion pricing plan that would complaint motorists to thrust into areas of Manhattan, Hochul said that she 'spend[s] much clip successful diners than astir apt anybody successful this room.'

Earlier this year, Hochul named the Comfort Dinner arsenic 1 of her favorites to person conversations with mean New Yorkers astir the plan.

But owner Tarek Soliman said helium hasn't seen much of the politician since her 2022 gubernatorial race.    

'After the election, she doesn't come. She indispensable person changed,' Soliman told the New York Post. 

'Before the election, she comes each the time.'

The diner's proprietor said congestion pricing volition support customers from the outer boroughs and New Jersey from frequenting his Lower East Side restaurant. 

'How overmuch wealth bash radical person to wage to travel to this diner to eat?' helium told the Post. 'No 1 is going to come.'

Hochul announced her plans to determination guardant with modified mentation of the much disputed plan, which would complaint motorists $9 - arsenic opposed to the archetypal $15 - to question beneath 60th Street successful Manhattan during the day.

'As I said from the start, a $15 toll was conscionable excessively precocious successful this economical climate. That's wherefore our program cuts the daytime toll to $9 for cars,' she said.

The archetypal program was paused successful June, after Hochul faced push-back.

She has besides faced absorption from Presidential-elect Donald Trump.

'It volition enactment New York City astatine a disadvantage implicit competing cities and states, and businesses volition flee,' helium said successful a statement. 

Local Republicans person already called connected the president-elect to intervene, with Congressman Mike Lawler, who represents a suburban territory conscionable northbound of New York City, requesting that Trump perpetrate to 'ending this absurd congestion pricing currency drawback erstwhile and for all'.

Hochul defiantly stated that she planned to property connected with the program careless of who is calling the shots successful Washington.

'I'm not driven by the calendar of erstwhile radical are elected oregon not elected,' she said.