She’s not moo-ving on this.
Gov. Kathy Hochul promised that the price of a glass of milk at the annual New York State Fair won’t budge as long as she’s in the governor’s mansion — outside cost pressures and inflation be darned.
“It will never go up as long as I’m governor,” Hochul told The Post Wednesday as she deftly poured a few glasses of moo juice at the Syracuse fair’s famous Rainbow Dairy Bar.
The Empire State has subsidized the dairy bar for nearly a decade ever since the nonprofit that hands out frosty 7-ounce cups of white and chocolate milk said they’d have to double the price to $0.50.
But this increased price of lactose was simply intolerable for then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who in 2015 said the state would kick in $90,000 to keep the price where it’s been since 1983, when his father, Mario, was governor.
Attendees chug between 350,000-400,000 cups each year, New York State Dairy Exhibits, Inc., which operates the dairy bar, told Syracuse.com.
A spokesperson for the division of budget wasn’t immediately able to say just how much the state is spending subsidizing the milk bar this year.
Hochul’s price-freezing pledge came as she paraded through the fair surrounded by reporters, staffers and members of her cabinet, occasionally stopping to chat with other fairgoers.
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“Take advantage of every program you can,” Hochul told a young girl participating in 4-H while holding a freshly poured cup of ice-cold chocolate milk. “I would join everything you can, because you never know where you’re going to end up starting in 4H.”
The governor also spoke at a women’s breakfast before stopping by the horticulture building where she signed a sweet piece of legislation allowing prospective sugar bush operators to lease state lands for maple syrup production for up to 10 years instead of the current five.
After mingling with a group of mounted state troopers and meeting one of their horses, James Bond, Hochul bumped into GOP Reps. Brandon Williams and Nicole Malliotakis — who yelled out “Staten Island is in the house!” to the Democrat.
She later split a Basilio’s sausage with Syracuse Mayor Ben Walsh, an independent, in keeping with a fair tradition.
