The hotel workers union and owners have dropped six figure donations in Democrat Hochul’s re-election bid — after she delivered a $450 million bailout program for the tourism industry.
Vijay Dandapani, president and CEO of the New York City Hotel Association, donated $5,000, saying: “Gov. Hochul said she would be supportive of jobs for the hotel industry. The association wanted to support her.”
“On November 8th, New Yorkers are going to clean up Albany by cleaning house and electing a new governor.” Hotel Trades Council spokesman Austin Shaffran defended the union’s donations to Hochul after she helped workers laid off during the COVID-19 pandemic, and boasted that HTC was one of the first major unions to back the Democrat’s re-election.“The recovery funds that Governor Hochul announced was a lifeline that kept these tens of thousands of workers off of the poverty line.