Mike Lawler
New York’s 17th (NY - 17)
Updated: August 30, 2024
Overview
Candidate CPP (Q3, :30s)
New York City: $1,100.00
With Mike Lawler, you have to watch what he does, and not what he says on TV and social media. His actions show that his words are empty. His time in Congress has been marked by broken promises. He consistently sides with Donald Trump and Washington Republicans over his constituents in the Lower Hudson Valley.
Summary
Voters district-wide should see ads on broadcast and cable and digital, including streaming, and read mail that highlight Mike Lawler’s broken promises and a voting record that hurts the middle class:
- While taking thousands from the insurance industry, Lawler opposed lowering health care premiums, voted against coverage for mental health care, and opposed capping the cost of the lifesaving drug insulin. If Lawler had his way, insurance companies would be able to deny people health care if they have pre-existing conditions like cancer, diabetes, and asthma.
- Mike Lawler has voted repeatedly against a woman’s right to an abortion and even voted for a bill that could allow doctors who perform an abortion to be thrown in jail. And Lawler is part of an extreme group of Republicans that would seek to ban abortion in New York, even in cases of rape and incest.
- Mike Lawler has voted 19 times against protecting Social Security and Medicare benefits for people who spent a lifetime paying into the system. He opposed lowering prescription drug costs for seniors and protections for nursing home residents.
If, and only if, voters cannot receive a negative communication about Mike Lawler’s broken promises and voting record that hurts the middle class, as an alternative, voters should see ads on television, digital – including streaming, and in the mail that connect Mondaire Jones’ compelling personal story to important issues affecting the Lower Hudson Valley:
- After Mondaire’s grandfather died of cancer, he saw his grandmother work well past the retirement age just to pay for the high costs of prescription drugs and procedures not fully covered by Medicare. It is why Mondaire fought to make life-saving medications more affordable for seniors and why he will also fight to preserve Social Security for our future generations so our seniors can retire with dignity.
- Mondaire believes too many politicians get elected and then forget about the people who elected them. That’s why he cosponsored a law to prevent members of Congress from getting rich off the stock market and why he doesn’t take a penny from corporate PACs. Mondaire is running for Congress to give a voice to people like his grandparents, a janitor and a house cleaner, and all of the other hard-working people in our area.
- Mondaire is endorsed by Planned Parenthood because he is a champion for reproductive rights. He will tirelessly defend a woman’s right to make her own health care decisions, protect access to birth control and IVF, and fight against the push for a national abortion ban that would end abortion even in New York.
Additional Resources
- It is mission-critical that voters receive negative communications about Mike Lawler in this race; it is a lower priority for voters to receive positive communication about Mondaire Jones.
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