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Yorktown Voter Calls B.S. on Mike Lawler’s So-Called ‘Bipartisanship’

“…when you com­pare his record to his rhetoric, it’s clear his ‘prin­ci­ples’ shift eas­ily with the pass­ing winds of the Pres­i­dent.”
A Yorktown voter is calling B.S. on Mike Lawler’s attempts to paint himself as a “principled moderate,” despite his disastrous record of voting in lockstep with Donald Trump 100% of the time and putting New Yorkers dead last.

In a new letter, the Hudson Valley voter calls Mike Lawler out for flip-flopping on issue after issue, claiming that “when push comes to shove, [Lawler] falls in line with the very MAGA fac­tion he once crit­i­cized.” 

REMINDER: Cook Political Report recently shifted NY-17 in Democrats’ favor from “Lean Republican” to “Toss-Up” thanks to Lawler’s wildly out-of-touch agenda of jacking up health care costs on thousands of Hudson Valley families to pay for tax breaks for billionaires.

Read the letter for yourself:

The Hudson Independent: Mike Lawler Does Have Principles

  • Mike Lawler of­ten de­scribes him­self as a man of prin­ci­ple. He claims to be guided by his faith, his prag­ma­tism, and his sup­posed com­mit­ment to bi­par­ti­san­ship. But when you com­pare his record to his rhetoric, it’s clear his “prin­ci­ples” shift eas­ily with the pass­ing winds of the Pres­i­dent.
  • Moral prin­ci­ples like in­tegrity, jus­tice, and benef­i­cence re­quire con­sis­tency. Lawler once said that if Trump were con­victed of a crime, he “should not be run­ning for pub­lic of­fice: pe­riod.” But now he ex­cuses and de­fends that same con­victed felon. And when the felon re­leases more and more felons from jail, that’s not in­tegrity, it’s hypocrisy.
  • Even Lawler’s self-pro­claimed “bi­par­ti­san­ship” rings hol­low. He touts his mem­ber­ship in the Prob­lem Solvers Cau­cus, but when push comes to shove, he falls in line with the very MAGA fac­tion he once crit­i­cized.
  • Lawler con­sis­tently pri­or­i­tizes po­lit­i­cal cal­cu­la­tion over com­pas­sion or fair­ness. That’s not benef­i­cence, it’s malef­i­cence.
  • He falls back on buzz­words that dis­guise poli­cies fa­vor­ing the wealthy, en­abling dis­crim­i­na­tion, and erod­ing de­mo­c­ra­tic norms.
  • Vot­ers in the Hud­son Val­ley should look past his pol­ished slo­gans and ask: who re­ally ben­e­fits from his ver­sion of “prin­ci­pled” pol­i­tics?

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