Bruce Blakeman Is the Governor of Slop
(Arthur Raslich / Nassau Country Photo Archives)

Bruce Blakeman Is the Governor of Slop

What would you do if New York's Republican nominee for governor stole your face? Plus more news for your Monday morning.

Comedian Justin Tyler has never met Bruce Blakeman, and is no fan of the Nassau County Republican who's currently running for governor against Kathy Hochul. 

So he was extremely surprised to find his own face in a digital ad for the Blakeman campaign, ripped from a 15-year-old sketch he could barely remember making. In it, Tyler utters three words: "Worst governor ever." 

"I know anything on the internet is ripe to be stolen," Tyler, who lives in New York City, told Hell Gate. But "to be a public person doing the stealing is so crazy to me."

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