Exclusive | No show Delgado: NYs lieutenant governor does little to earn $210K paycheck, records show

He wants to be New York’s next governor, but Lt.Gov.

Antonio Delgado has been all but a no-show since getting his $210,000-a-year post three years ago, according to records and Albany insiders.Since being sworn in as Gov.Kathy Hochul’s No.

2 on May 25, 2022, the lefty pol has racked up at least 411 days in which he took off or had easy shifts with only one scheduled event or meeting — or none at all, public schedules The Post obtained through a Freedom of Information Law request show.That’s a whopping 41% of his first 1,011 days on the job, through Feb.28.And his schedule has gotten only lighter since he publicly broke from Hochul in late February and announced he won’t be seeking re-election, insiders said.Delgado’s schedules don’t document vacations, but over the nearly three-year period he racked up a whopping 135 weekdays with no reported work.

That translates into 27 weeks of vacation for an average working stiff.If you include weekends — and many statewide pols attend public events on weekends — he reported blank work schedules for 318 days, or nearly 32% of the time.On dozens of other occasions, his shifts included one work-day activity: a half-hour or hour-long call with staff.The former two-term Hudson County congressman has since been plotting his campaign – which he announced Monday – to challenge Hochul in next year’s Democratic primary, while still collecting a paycheck as lieutenant governor.“It’s no secret that the lieutenant governor rarely showed up for a full day of work, and there were plenty of times he didn’t show up at all – even for the few initiatives he claimed were his big accomplishments,” said an Albany source familiar with Delgado’s work habits.“When it comes to the last few months, it’s hard to know if he’s been doing his day job at all.”The state’s Executive Chamber stopped providing administrative support to Delgado on Feb.28, and the governor’s office said it’s “our understand...