Hedge fund manager Daniel Loeb, who is a major donor to Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and a fierce advocate for charter schools, said this week that a black Democratic New York lawmaker was even worse than the Ku Klux Klan.
The New York Times reports that Loeb this week reacted angrily to a New York Times article in which Democratic New York Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins lambasted Cuomo for purportedly prejudging her based on her race and gender.
While posting the article on Facebook, Loeb said that Stewart-Cousins for supposedly paying "fealty to powerful union thugs and bosses" while doing "more damage to people of color than anyone who has ever donned a hood."
Loeb's claim that Stewart-Cousins was hurting black children seems to have been based on her past opposition to charter school initiatives.
Loeb quickly removed the Facebook post and issued a formal apology for his remarks.
"I regret the language I used in expressing my passion for educational choice," he said in a statement. "I apologize to Senator Stewart-Cousins and anyone I offended. I have taken down the post from Facebook."
