| The bad press keeps piling up for Mike Lawler as he faces more scrutiny over his long history of self-dealing while in office.
The New York Times reports that Lawler, “New York’s most endangered House Republican, paid a political consulting firm he once owned” — “raising ethics concerns” about the “complex and lucrative web of political and financial ties among his campaign, several nonprofits and a political consulting firm, Checkmate Strategies.”
Lawler tried to wave the scandal away by claiming he was “internally firewalled” from his firm’s profits related to his races and had “gone above and beyond” House Ethics guidance — but according to the Times, Lawler “provided no evidence of that arrangement” and “declined to provide a copy of the guidance he received from the House Ethics Committee.”
If Lawler really did nothing wrong, why won’t he produce a single piece of evidence to back it up?
DCCC Spokesperson Riya Vashi:
“Mike Lawler has spent his entire career turning political office into a personal payday while selling out his constituents again and again — and Hudson Valley voters are done with it. They’re seeing the receipts pile up, calling him out, and in November, they’ll fire him for good. NY-17 deserves a representative who fights for them, not a self-dealing operative who fights for his own bottom line.”
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