In deflecting criticism of Gov. Kathy Hochul's record, her re-election team bragged about how New York ranks as the 45th state on "affordability." Brigitte Stelzer

Asked to name her biggest achievements since taking office in 2021, Gov. Kathy Hochul offered up an incredible reply — and then her staff made it worse by answering the inevitably criticism by bragging about how New York ranks as the 45th state on “affordability.”

Then again, Hochul’s minions were trying to cover for the gov’s own clueless horn-tooting, as she told Politico of her pride in “stimulating the economy after the pandemic” — when New York under Hochul lagged the nation first in ending COVID restrictions and then in recovering the jobs lost when the lockdowns hit.

Worse, she claimed “the foundation of it all

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