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Hundreds of NY-17 Constituents Condemn Lawler For Courting “Anti-Democracy” Radicals

Hudson Valley residents are slamming Lawler’s decision to attend GOP retreat with the disgraced former president

Voters in the Hudson Valley made clear this week that they’re holding Mike Lawler accountable for his baffling decision to join extremists at a donor retreat headlined by Donald Trump today, calling out Lawler’s “will­ing­ness to stand be­side those so firmly com­mit­ted to anti-democ­racy poli­cies.”

The hundreds of constituents who called on Lawler to back out of the retreat clarified for the increasingly vulnerable Republican that “Trump does not rep­re­sent our val­ues” and are demanding Lawler “make it clear whether he rep­re­sents yours or not.”

This letter is just the latest proof that after 100 days of pushing the GOP’s dangerous and out-of-touch agenda, Lawler has failed to earn the trust of his district.

This comes after Lawler has recently been met with multiple protests pushing back against his party’s dangerous threats to cut Social Security and Medicare.

DCCC spokesperson Nebeyatt Betre:
“Mike Lawler has proven time and time again he’s willing to bend over backwards to support his extreme party leaders and wealthy donors, but can’t be bothered to support his own constituents. It’s clear Hudson Valley voters have had enough of Lawler’s failed leadership.”

Read the full letter here and below:

300 Constituents Ask Mike Lawler to Back Out of Trump Donor Event

April 13, 2023

Rep. Lawler,

It has come to our at­ten­tion that this Fri­day, you plan to at­tend a Re­pub­li­can Na­tional Com­mit­tee donor re­treat head­lined by Don­ald Trump in Nashville. This comes shortly af­ter Don­ald Trump was in­dicted in crim­i­nal court and two De­moc­rats were ex­pelled from the Ten­nessee leg­is­la­ture for ex­er­cis­ing their First Amend­ment rights.

Your will­ing­ness to ap­pear with a for­mer Pres­i­dent who in­cited an in­sur­rec­tion against our democ­racy, at a donor re­treat in a state cur­rently ex­pe­ri­enc­ing its own de­mo­c­ra­tic cri­sis, is ex­tremely wor­ry­ing. We are wor­ried about the fu­ture of democ­racy in this coun­try and are con­cerned by your will­ing­ness to stand be­side those so firmly com­mit­ted to anti-democ­racy poli­cies.

We are ask­ing that you choose not to at­tend this donor re­treat and pub­licly re­ject the au­thor­i­tar­ian, anti-democ­racy cam­paign cur­rently be­ing waged by Don­ald Trump.

We are con­stituents of New York’s 17th Con­gres­sional Dis­trict who rep­re­sent the di­ver­sity of our com­mu­ni­ties and come from all cor­ners of the dis­trict. Don­ald Trump does not rep­re­sent our val­ues and we ask that you make it clear whether he rep­re­sents yours or not.

(Sig­na­to­ries avail­able to read here)

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