Alec Baldwin in bizarre feud with Kathy Hochul over New York State Fair

Embattled Hollywood actor Alec Baldwin and his family are locked in a bizarre battle with New York Governor Kathy Hochul over a booth at the Great New York State Fair.

For the last 33 years, a Baldwin family cancer charity has sponsored a booth adorned with pink ribbons, t-shirts, jewelry and portraits of cancer victims at the annual 13-day event in the town of Geddes, near Syracuse.

But this year, the charity, which is named for Carol Baldwin, the family matriarch who died after a long battle with breast cancer last year, is pulling out of the Fair, which opens next week.

It claims new state rules mean the charity cannot take the Fair’s recycling and profit from it, which it had done before.

“After a meeting this past week I can no longer stand for the changes being made by the leaders at the State Fair,” Beth Baldwin-Keuchler, Alec’s older sister and the longtime executive director of the Baldwin Fund wrote on the charity’s web site. The charity’s full name is the Carol M. Baldwin Fund.

“This year you will not see the Baldwin Fund at the great NYS Fair. This decision was not made lightly.”

In previous years, Baldwin-Keuchler, 67, said that the charity enlisted volunteers and others to take care of the fair’s recycling program in exchange for the deposit returns on bottles they collected.

In some years, the non-profit was able to make more than $50,000, Baldwin-Keuchler told NewsChannel9.

But the new rules prevent that, an angry Baldwin-Keuchler said. “I have much more, bigger things to do. Sit with people when they’re having chemo, get them into doctors, sit with them when they’re dying, on their last breath, and I’m arguing over a six-cent can.”

The TV interview was interrupted by a call from younger brother Alec, 65.

“The local homegrown people are not being taken care of, as far as I’m concerned,” said Baldwin.

“For this organization to represent what it means in the hearts and minds of Central New York, and to have them treated this way… no priority given to the local groups, to me the local groups should get the priority.”

It’s not clear what discussions took place between the Baldwin Fund and representatives from New York State, who run the Fair that attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors for agricultural exhibits, an antique tractor show and sculptures crafted from 800 pounds of butter.

The charity, which was started by Carol Baldwin and her six children in 2001, took in $435,559 in 2021, the most recent year for which it has filed records — but paid out zero in grants.

Instead it paid Baldwin-Keucher $102,135, while board secretary Mary Bird made $13,259.

Baldwin-Keuchler has enjoyed steady salary increases throughout the charity’s lifetime. In 2005, her base salary was $36,000, which climbed to a high of $104,627 in 2018, according to federal filings.

Among the last public disclosures of grants was $200,000 that the group gave to the Research Foundation of the State University of New York in 2019, filings show.

That year the charity’s board included Baldwin brother Daniel, sister Jane Baldwin-Sasso and Beth’s daughter Jacqueline Baldwin-Calveric.

In addition to its booth at the Fair, the non-profit organizes a gala dinner, golf tournament and other events to raise money.

The Post’s emails to the state’s Department of Agriculture and Markets, which oversees the Fair, and the Baldwin Fund were not returned Thursday.

“We continue to wish the Foundation success and welcome the opportunity to work together again in the future,” a Fair spokeswoman told Syracuse.com.“The Fair is currently working on finalizing a contract with a recycling vendor, and will share more when it can.”

Although Alec Baldwin is not listed as a board member on the charity’s federal filings, he is included in a board list on the charity’s website and has been in the booth at the State Fair.

The stand-off with Gov. Hochul comes in a week when a new report by ballistics experts in Arizona and New Mexico could result in new charges for the actor in the 2021 fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.

Baldwin has maintained that the revolver discharged accidentally after he followed instructions to point it toward Hutchins, who was behind the camera during rehearsal while filming “Rust,” his low-budget Western.