Francesca Hong, a Democratic candidate for governor in Wisconsin, said in a past social media post that she once left a Culver’s restaurant after nearly having an “anxiety attack” because there were “too many old white people” inside.
Hong described the episode in a 2019 post on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.
“I ate two bites of my kid’s cheeseburger at a Culver’s in black river falls and told him they ran out of ice cream. Mostly just wanted to leave bc I was on the verge of a anxiety attack,” she wrote.
In the same post, Hong said the restaurant had “to many old white people who didn’t think we spoke english.”
Hong did not provide further details about what she meant by the claim that others “didn’t think we spoke English.”
After drawing criticism over the resurfaced remarks, Hong responded by sharing a 2020 post in which she weighed in on Culver’s fried cheese curds.
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“They are the perfect road curd. No other fried curd comes close. Only Culvers curds or fresh curds are appropriate for travel. For in person dining Culver’s curds are indeed, trash,” she wrote at the time.
Addressing the renewed attention, Hong later posted, “I see that folks are digging up old tweets in an attempt to shift the narrative in this race. I stand by this statement, unequivocally. Their fries also leave much to be desired. The reuben, however, slaps,” she said.
Hong has a history of upholding extremist positions, having once said that police exist to “uphold white supremacy.”
“Police exist to uphold white supremacy,” Hong wrote in 2021. “Defund then abolish. Reform can’t be an option.”
Speaking to Fox News last week, Hong distanced herself from those comments, adding that “people can evolve.”
“The governor cannot defund the police, and I won’t defund the police,” Hong said. “But I will invest in the things we know prevent crime.”
