This is just getting ridiculous with these lotteries, free donuts and beer bribes from elected officials across the country if you just get the COVID vaccine.
Well now the Comandante, Lina Hidalgo has to get in on the action.
Last week, she announced her vaccine lottery scheme.
The Comandante says the new vaccine incentive program will award scholarships of $5,000 to help current or future students pay for tuition, room-and-board, and books to any community college, public college or university in the state of Texas through a raffle.
To be eligible, students must be a Harris County resident, be under the age of 18 at the time of initial vaccination dose and must have received at least the first dose of vaccine from any Harris County Public Health vaccination site at any point before the raffle drawing.
Drawings for contest winners will be conducted once a week for at least 10 weeks beginning on June 10, according to Hidalgo.
Of course she also made it a point to emphasize that citizenship status is not checked or required.
As the Czar points out:
“so you’re taking money from the treasury to run a lottery. I don’t understand the mentality of legalized gambling in order to coerce people into getting a shot. You know if this shot is so amazing, why are we having to bribe people to get it.”