This week, New Yorkers are continuing to call out vulnerable Republicans Mike Lawler and Brandon Williams for failing voters of New York’s 17th and 22nd congressional districts.
Lawler is facing criticism for dismissing four-time indicted, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s hateful and dangerous attacks on Jewish Americans in addition to concerns over following his party’s line to cut Social Security.
Williams is once again “absent” on issues that are important to Central New York and the Mohawk Valley – this time when it comes to protecting the environment.
Recently, Donald Trump made the outrageous and unhinged remarks charging Jews who vote for Democrats “hate Israel” and “their religion” has ignited a firestorm of criticism from Jewish leaders and the White House. He continued his rant saying, “they hate everything about Israel and they should be ashamed of themselves because Israel will be destroyed.”
That being said, when Republican Congressman Mike Lawler was asked to respond to Trump’s remark he made a dismissive hand wave.
It’s unfathomable to me that he can dismiss Trump’s anti-Semitic remarks while he romances the Hasidic Rockland community.
It’s time to get Lawler out of office and vote for Democrat Mondaire Jones, a man with ethics that are in sync with our district.
Congressman Mike Lawler, whose district includes much of northern Westchester County, likes to give the impression he will protect your Social Security benefits. But will he?
He consistently votes for Republican Party policies, and the GOP, starting with its leadership, is calling for cuts in Social Security. A fiscal 2024 budget plan from the Republican Study Committee, which includes about 80 percent of House Republicans, would phase in a two-year delay in the full retirement age, moving it from 67 to 69 and slice $718 billion from Social Security funding.
In a recent e-mail blast, Lawler promised to keep working to preserve Social Security. Most likely he means he will support Republican plans to make benefit cuts supposedly necessary to preserve the program, not that he will work to preserve the benefits his constituents rely on. There are other, better ways to keep Social Security solvent, such as by requiring the very rich to pay their fair share into the program.
Lawler is trying to have it both ways, professing support for Social Security while supporting policies that would erode its benefits to America’s seniors.
This year it feels clear that our climate is changing. We have had the warmest, and least snowy, January on record.
When it comes to protecting the climate, it makes sense to look to our congressional representative, Republican Brandon Williams, for guidance since he is the chair of the Energy Subcommittee in the House.
Reading about Williams’ experience as a child watching the last Apollo moon landings which ignited in him a “lifelong love of science, engineering, astronomy, and space travel,” this appointment makes sense.
Williams actions on the committee contradict that thought. His only climate related legislation is a resolution to condemn the Biden administration for its ban on the issuance of liquefied natural gas export permits.
After returning from last year’s COP28 Climate Conference, Williams stated that in his opinion the Biden administration “makes an overemphasis on wind and solar.” His solution, nuclear power, presents its own set of pollutants: carbon emissions and storage of toxic wastewater.
Disappointingly Williams “lifelong love of science” does not transfer to protecting the climate.
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