Francesca Hong, a Democratic candidate for governor in Wisconsin, recently recounted an unsettling experience at a Culver’s fast food restaurant where she felt an “anxiety attack” looming, which she attributed to the presence of “too many old white people.”
Hong shared her account of this anxiety-triggering incident in a 2019 post on X, a social media platform.
“I took a couple of bites from my child’s cheeseburger at a Culver’s in Black River Falls and then told him the ice cream was out. I primarily wanted to leave because I felt an anxiety attack was imminent,” Hong explained.
She commented that the restaurant was filled with “too many old white people who didn’t think we spoke English.”
Hong did not provide further detail on the remark about assumptions regarding language ability.
In response to the criticisms she received, Hong shared a post from 2020 in which she discussed Culver’s fried cheese curds.
“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 said.
“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 in a subsequent post.
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.”