05/31/2026
In February 2026, I attended the Black, Puerto Rican and Asian Caucus in Albany, New York and came across an altercation with a father and his teenage daughter at a hotel in Albany, NY. I paid for the hotel but did not have the money for the deposit to finish the hotel transaction and therefore the property manager denied me the hotel stay during that weekend. I asked a few people in the hotel lobby is they could help me with the $50 hotel deposit (including the young daughter with her father present), but to no avail…no one responded back and therefore I had to spend the entire night in the hotel lobby of the Hilton Hotel at Albany, New York….where I am acquaintances with many of the legislators in New York.
I intended no harm in asking the teenage daughter or anyone else to help me secure my $50 deposit that night in Albany, New York.
My personal finances since February 2026, have been unstable, since resigning from my overnight shift CNA job at Advocate East Boston and I am have been traveling all over the state of Massachusetts (from Springfield/Greenfield to Cape Cod without a car)…picking up daily per-diem shifts with AllShifts and through Instawork.
But I intend to apply myself with earnest intentions on becoming financially stable despite the setbacks that these circumstances (both with my past history of homelessness even as a college graduate from Purdue University leaving Chicago, IL in 2019 through a neighborhood building fire in Roseland back in 2018/2019) and now still living with public assistance as a college graduate and CNA still dealing with anxieties of finances and personal relationships.
Please extend my apologies to the father in Albany, NY who may have been offended by my asking his daughter for money or even being in the midst of political elite at this weekend’s MassDems Convention in Worcester, MA….despite my personal financial situation.
In regards,
LaQueen Battle
East Cambridge, MA USA
May 31st, 2026
