Thanks to Kathy Hochul, you paid for the Bills botched new stadium

Ouch: Gov.Kathy Hochul’s new Buffalo stadium opened with a splat last weekend, as irate fans discovered a plethora of obstructed views, among other woes.As you may recall, making taxpayers fork over $850 million for Highmark Stadium was Hochul’s top priority in her very first budget back in 2022, months after she replaced 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 along with:Of course, the gov insists she’s a huge Bills fan — though she skipped the team’s conference-championship playoff game in 2024 for ..

.a fundraiser in Manhattan, well over two years before her next election.Hmm: Florida-based billionaire Bills owner, Terry Pagula, and his wife this year donated $176,000, the legal maximum, to the gov’s re-election bid ($18,000 each to her campaign, $138,000 to the state party).Plus, the stadium giveaway was another Hochul move that seemed to benefit her husband’s lawyer-lobbyist career.

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Never miss a story.Now, add this irony: Taxpayers covered up nearly 40% of the cost of stadium whose design looks like government work, with bizarre balconies, strange stairways and ridiculous railings blocking views of the field.Not to mention the bathrooms accessible only from the bottom of seating tiers.Bills fans: Every time you miss a play because you can’t see a quarter of the field, or had to stop to breathe on the way back from recycling a beer, remind yourself: This is the House that Kat built....