Statement from NYGOP Chairman Nick Langworthy

on Kathy Hochul’s Use of Racial Division

January 2, 2022

“Kathy Hochul is playing the disgusting politics of racial division and is putting New Yorkers at risk for her own political gain. Instead of expanding New York’s testing capacity, she is using her emergency powers to inject race-based decision-making into healthcare policy – New York State will now use race and ethnicity to determine distribution of COVID-19 treatments. This kind of divisive top-down policy-making was rejected by voters last year in Virginia, when they elected a Republican Governor, and New Yorkers will reject it too when we elect a Republican Governor in 2022.”

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