Gov. Hochul’s mayor coddling: Letters – Latest News
The Issue: Gov. Hochul’s help for Mayor Mamdani following Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s criticism.
Michael Goodwin’s excellent piece describing Gov. Hochul’s leftward-shifting positions is spot-on (“Kat has gone Zo off course!” Sept. 27).
She continues to show time and again that no deception is simply too huge or lie too small if it boosts her personal and political ambitions.
Kathy pursuing reelection whereas slinking nearer to Mayor Mamdani is optimistic proof New York residents solely “come first” after she’s lined her own wants.
Jim Soviero
E. Setauket
I might ask all voters in New York to learn Hochul’s feedback on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s go to to the United Nations carefully .
In a current radio interview, she accused Netanyahu of mendacity. She insisted Mamdani hasn’t incited riots in opposition to Jewish people within the metropolis, completely skipping Netanyahu’s actual criticism: the mayor’s unfavourable obsession with Israel.
Netanyahu talked about that “Jews no longer feel safe in New York.” This was half of the governor’s accusation that Netanyahu was not telling the reality.
I urge all of my fellow New Yorkers to recollect this in November. Let us ship Hochul a message: Goodbye and good riddance.
Joseph Margolin
Valley Stream
What a non-winning mixture now we have in our governor and mayor.
We have a boy in males’s clothes pretending to be our mayor, slightly than the city crier of hate he actually is. Send him to Gaza with the Palestinian lady who planted a tree at Gracie Mansion. Maybe he can do a higher job there.
Send Hochul, too; she is just a few steps away from carrying a burka in her groveling to this boy mayor.
Susan Green
Manhattan
Hochul continues to help Mamdani even when he’s incorrect. The mayor might have by no means mentioned he helps Hamas, however his praising and entertaining of those that have says in any other case.
Mamdani spreading lies of genocide and making threats to Netanyahu is inciting people to behave.
Robert Neglia
The Bronx
Time and again, Hochul has proven herself to be a vacuous dullard. Now she has confirmed herself to be a liar by supporting Mamdani’s lies about Israel and its prime minister.
Her prevarications have to be remembered after we vote in November.
Jack Weinberg
Manhattan
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The Issue: The Post’s editorial on how DEI is dangerously undermining US medical-school instruction.
According to the Association of American Medical Colleges, in 2025-26, girls constituted 57.2% of candidates however solely 55.0% of matriculants to US med faculties (“Med Schools’ Deadly DEI,” Editorial, Sept. 27).
Men represented 42.2% of candidates however 44.4% of matriculants. This was not a one-year anomaly; it additionally occurred in 2024-25.
While these numbers alone don’t show desire, they raise a query absent from The Post’s dialogue: Why are male candidates gaining illustration during the admissions course of whereas girls lose it?
Scrutiny ought to be utilized constantly. We ought to be simply as fascinated with a potential desire benefiting males as one benefiting any racial or ethnic group.
Raja Flores
Manhattan
The DEI struggle on excellence exposes the lunacy presently being perpetrated by our best recognized, however no longer most interesting, skilled packages.
Who needs a surgeon of “the right race” as a substitute of one with excellent tutorial and sensible coaching?
Those who’re unaware of these sinister and deceitful strategies are those that can pay a price for the failings of the anointed.
Richard Klitzberg
Princeton
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