Democratic Governor Gives COVID Test Contract to a Company that Charges More Than Double and Then Gives Her Campaign Contributions

It’s a good thing that voters in New York State are Democrats. Because if the voters had half a brain they wouldn’t be Democrats. And the state would be full of Republicans, but all the smart people left NYS for Florida. Now, the government looks like a scene out of the movie “Idiocracy.”

New York Governor Kathy Hochul paid a New Jersey-based company $637 million for COVID testing at $13 dollars per test. Other companies charge as little as $5 dollars. The company is tied to almost $300,000 in donations to Hochul’s campaign. Can you say quid pro quo?

From The Gateway Pundit

New York Post reported:

Gov. Kathy Hochul had New Yorkers pay twice as much for COVID tests from a company tied to nearly $300,000 in donations to her campaign compared to other state vendors, a new report details, raising fresh concerns of alleged pay-to-play behavior ahead of the Nov. 8 election.

“Whether it was pay-to-play or total incompetence – New York taxpayers and then the federal taxpayers got massively ripped off,” John Kaehny, of the good-government group Reinvent Albany, said of the Digital Gadgets deal funded by New York taxpayers with the help of federal relief aid.

While some companies charged the state just $5 for rapid tests, the N.J.-based Digital Gadgets got as much as $13 per unit in a total of $637 million worth of no-bid deals for millions of tests as Hochul pushed schools to stay open amid the omicron wave last year, according to the Times Union

They spent far more on tests from Digital Gadgets than other companies.

Digital Gadgets: $637M

iHealth: $120M

Spectrum Medical: $80M

Abbott: $12M

Bill Hammond, senior fellow for health policy at the Empire Center for Public Policy expressed concern over the deal saying the administration was charged more than a consumer buying a test in a retail store – this is despite the fact the administration bought in bulk.

And you know what? Hochul will get away with it. She’s got Democratic Privilege. She is a Democratic Supremacist. The state and federal governments would have saved over $300 million by giving the contract to any other company.