Hochuls insensitive quip: Letters to the Editor Sept. 15, 2025

Kathy Hochul’s remarks to a mostly black audience about not spending government checks on alcohol was so racist that it defies belief (“Backlush at gov,” Sept.11).If a Republican governor said that, there would be riots in the streets.

However, because she’s a liberal Democrat, she gets a pass.Hochul is a feckless, incompetent moron.

Black voters should keep her remarks in mind when she runs for re-election.Robert DiNardoFarmingdaleAs an Irish Catholic, Gov.Hochul should know about stereotypes.Yet she condescendingly suggests in a black church that a rebate check not be spent on a bottle of “Colt 45.” Perhaps she should try not preaching.Peter CooperBronxvilleAttention, motormouth Kathy Hochul.

Who do you think you are, insulting Buffalo parishioners like that? That was the most racist thing I’ve heard from her ilk since President Biden compared students’ intelligence based on income.Horrific and embarrassing.N.

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Never miss a story.New RochelleHochul has no apology to make to the predominantly black parishioners of the True Bethel Baptist Church in Buffalo for her outrageous remark.When referring to the promised “state inflation refund checks” she urged the congregation, “Don’t stop by the liquor store.

Buy something for the kids.Buy them some food.”In next year’s election, Hochul will not lose a single vote for her faux pas.

The black clergy leaders will do the usual, subtly or openly, encouraging their congregants to overwhelmingly vote Democratic, and such insults will be ignored.Michael HeadleyBrooklynLet’s see — Gov.Hochul told black parishioners not to spend the money that the state is sending them on booze.

To the black community: This is what you get from the Democratic Party that believes they own you.What a to...