I sometimes think that the playbook used by Trump, Stefanik, DeSantis, Abbot, and so forth, is to produce SO MUCH SCANDAL that people get tired of hearing about it and want to "move on."
In this case, "move on" means let those people continue to act badly without repercussions. Almost without notice because it's no longer "news."
It is one of the reasons why I wrote this column. Was it me that was bothered by these actions? Honestly, I don’t want to write about her two or three times a month, but her actions warrant it. And when you put them all together, you really get a sense of how bad they are. I don’t think it’s me, it’s her.
Voted for this young woman twice in her earlier “form “ however, Elise earned my ire when she began to mimic Trump’s playbook. It was disheartening to see her once sterling reputation morph into a caricature of a soulless ,lying, despotic and desperate man who endangered our country. Is this the kind of leadership role model our children need? Elise betrayed all of her constituents with her actions and words and violated her oath of office, yet still received adulation from diehard supporters. Her refusal to certify President Biden’s election even though she was elected by a landslide in the same election and to question the results in other states added much fuel to the raging GOP fires. She must be held accountable for her actions. Please continue to keep the public informed. Thank you.
It is clear the image was good from the start, but even then if you looked close her reputation was more tinfoil than sterling -- bending facts and words to imply something she has never been....
More than 50 Warren County elected GOP leaders endorsed Stefanik in the last election. These are some of the folks who brought us David Decker, who supervised tourism director Snow, who just voted to raise your taxes in Warren County and Queensbury. Every county in the district had a long list of her supporters, Todd Kusnierz of Moreau among them. Is it a surprise he is fighting to bring sewer sludge to his town?
One wonders where their limit is? What will they not accept? We know that J6 was an act of sedition. Many people have been convicted of it and Elise Stefanik was in the thick of it in support of the side the seditionists fought for.
THe silence from local leaders about Rep. Stefanik is striking. Every local person should reach out to their Town Board member and supervisor and ask their opinion of her actions.
I would also add the media. The watertown daily times, has endorsed #POS_tefanik each election.. and to do this they ignore their own reporting that reports on her lying (and crimes).
One can not say this about who is best, or the least evil, because in many of those elections stiffy was the ONLY evil
Post-Star endorsed her once in three elections - It was a 3-2 vote by the editorial board. Newspaper endorsed Dems one time and Green Party another. So much for liberal bias.
AND you have mentioned this before, I will ask you, in hindsight, do you think those endorsements look a little weak, now that we know what we know about stefanik?
I think there is a credible case to made for those early endorsements so I don’t think there was anything egregious there. I think there needs to be a transparency to how endorsements are made by newspapers. We always had that. We reported what the vote was in the editorial board and why it went that way. I don’t know if Watertown or other newspapers do that. Publishers can often have a major influence on an endorsement. Not always, but sometimes.
Ken, do we get the impression that you just don't like Stefanik? How can you feel any other way in the face of her hypocracy, her lies and despicable behavior? She represents the worst of bullying political hacks, dressed as a preppy schoolgirl. "Putting lipstick on a pig. . . " comes to mind.
Well done, Ken. Stefanik has done a real disservice to the North Country that she supposedly represents. She doe NOT represent me and I am embarrassed by her lying and deceptions.
We can only hope the die-hard supporters would at least read your fact-based column as well as others who have written about her and realize they've been duped. She really has become a nasty, arrogant, uncaring politician.
The scary thing is that she appears to be saying what the majority of her constituents want to hear. They are not interested in the truth because it does not match their belief in the "evil liberals".
However to say the constant lying of eLIEs is not evil.. is to ignore she knows she is lying
To see the gop create a weaponizing of government committee that is in place to weaponize government is evil
To watch the gop pass laws that will suppress voting, in the name of stopping the illegal voting (which there is little and often done by republicans) and not point out that is evil would be a mistake
The Jim Crow laws of the south or the erecting monuments to racist southern soldiers is evil-- and the party that supported that, also evil.
Leaving confederate flag in state flags is evil.
Sometimes the opposition is evil. Hitler wasn't just 'opposition' he was an evil menace..
Fear and desperation - the watchwords of the right's political strategy for decades. Elies has tapped into this and layered within it outright lies, including her residence, her false victimization during a congressional hearing, "delivering results" through executive branch grants whose funding she voted against, conspiring in the "Green Bay Sweep" (a felony - 18 USC 371), encouraging contributions to a fraudulent campaign/defense fund and most recently, propping up then abandoning George Santos. She has embraced the devolution of the former GOP into a personality cult and depends on Kens and Karens who think masks are bad and chocolate milk is good. It isn't encouraging knowing a majority in this district as so easily duped. P.S. Has she reintroduced the Canadian Snowbird Act?
Thank you for writing this. I wish there were a way for her followers to read it, but they would rather be boiled in oil than read anything against her. Twain: "The truth has no defense against a fool determined to believe a lie."
I guess that is $6 million question: What are they afraid of. Is she really bringing that much pork to the district. I think it is clear she is not.
Nice concise review of Stefanik's behavior. Appears pretty clear to me who she is.
Also-Nice Job Ralph. Always loved that guy!
I sometimes think that the playbook used by Trump, Stefanik, DeSantis, Abbot, and so forth, is to produce SO MUCH SCANDAL that people get tired of hearing about it and want to "move on."
In this case, "move on" means let those people continue to act badly without repercussions. Almost without notice because it's no longer "news."
It is one of the reasons why I wrote this column. Was it me that was bothered by these actions? Honestly, I don’t want to write about her two or three times a month, but her actions warrant it. And when you put them all together, you really get a sense of how bad they are. I don’t think it’s me, it’s her.
Awesome article Ken, and unlike E'lies', truthful and factual. I agree 1,000%!
Voted for this young woman twice in her earlier “form “ however, Elise earned my ire when she began to mimic Trump’s playbook. It was disheartening to see her once sterling reputation morph into a caricature of a soulless ,lying, despotic and desperate man who endangered our country. Is this the kind of leadership role model our children need? Elise betrayed all of her constituents with her actions and words and violated her oath of office, yet still received adulation from diehard supporters. Her refusal to certify President Biden’s election even though she was elected by a landslide in the same election and to question the results in other states added much fuel to the raging GOP fires. She must be held accountable for her actions. Please continue to keep the public informed. Thank you.
Good point about how the votes for her were legitimate, but the votes for Biden were not.
"Fool me once -- shame on you"
It is clear the image was good from the start, but even then if you looked close her reputation was more tinfoil than sterling -- bending facts and words to imply something she has never been....
Honest
More than 50 Warren County elected GOP leaders endorsed Stefanik in the last election. These are some of the folks who brought us David Decker, who supervised tourism director Snow, who just voted to raise your taxes in Warren County and Queensbury. Every county in the district had a long list of her supporters, Todd Kusnierz of Moreau among them. Is it a surprise he is fighting to bring sewer sludge to his town?
One wonders where their limit is? What will they not accept? We know that J6 was an act of sedition. Many people have been convicted of it and Elise Stefanik was in the thick of it in support of the side the seditionists fought for.
THe silence from local leaders about Rep. Stefanik is striking. Every local person should reach out to their Town Board member and supervisor and ask their opinion of her actions.
I would also add the media. The watertown daily times, has endorsed #POS_tefanik each election.. and to do this they ignore their own reporting that reports on her lying (and crimes).
One can not say this about who is best, or the least evil, because in many of those elections stiffy was the ONLY evil
Post-Star endorsed her once in three elections - It was a 3-2 vote by the editorial board. Newspaper endorsed Dems one time and Green Party another. So much for liberal bias.
I pointed out the watertown daily times
AND you have mentioned this before, I will ask you, in hindsight, do you think those endorsements look a little weak, now that we know what we know about stefanik?
I think there is a credible case to made for those early endorsements so I don’t think there was anything egregious there. I think there needs to be a transparency to how endorsements are made by newspapers. We always had that. We reported what the vote was in the editorial board and why it went that way. I don’t know if Watertown or other newspapers do that. Publishers can often have a major influence on an endorsement. Not always, but sometimes.
Ken, do we get the impression that you just don't like Stefanik? How can you feel any other way in the face of her hypocracy, her lies and despicable behavior? She represents the worst of bullying political hacks, dressed as a preppy schoolgirl. "Putting lipstick on a pig. . . " comes to mind.
Well done, Ken. Stefanik has done a real disservice to the North Country that she supposedly represents. She doe NOT represent me and I am embarrassed by her lying and deceptions.
We can only hope the die-hard supporters would at least read your fact-based column as well as others who have written about her and realize they've been duped. She really has become a nasty, arrogant, uncaring politician.
The scary thing is that she appears to be saying what the majority of her constituents want to hear. They are not interested in the truth because it does not match their belief in the "evil liberals".
It is disturbing when one political party is portrayed as “evil” rather than just the opposition.
true, if true.
However to say the constant lying of eLIEs is not evil.. is to ignore she knows she is lying
To see the gop create a weaponizing of government committee that is in place to weaponize government is evil
To watch the gop pass laws that will suppress voting, in the name of stopping the illegal voting (which there is little and often done by republicans) and not point out that is evil would be a mistake
The Jim Crow laws of the south or the erecting monuments to racist southern soldiers is evil-- and the party that supported that, also evil.
Leaving confederate flag in state flags is evil.
Sometimes the opposition is evil. Hitler wasn't just 'opposition' he was an evil menace..
Right on, brother!
Excellent.
Fear and desperation - the watchwords of the right's political strategy for decades. Elies has tapped into this and layered within it outright lies, including her residence, her false victimization during a congressional hearing, "delivering results" through executive branch grants whose funding she voted against, conspiring in the "Green Bay Sweep" (a felony - 18 USC 371), encouraging contributions to a fraudulent campaign/defense fund and most recently, propping up then abandoning George Santos. She has embraced the devolution of the former GOP into a personality cult and depends on Kens and Karens who think masks are bad and chocolate milk is good. It isn't encouraging knowing a majority in this district as so easily duped. P.S. Has she reintroduced the Canadian Snowbird Act?
Unfortunately, as you point out, my summary is just the tip of the iceberg.
It's difficult to summarize a constant flood of fraud and deceit.
It definitely is.
Thank you.
Don't let up.
We need to be reminded about her hypocrisy, and you're the one to do it.
Thank you for writing this. I wish there were a way for her followers to read it, but they would rather be boiled in oil than read anything against her. Twain: "The truth has no defense against a fool determined to believe a lie."
Great quote!
Thank you for taking the time and reporting on the hypocrisy of Rep Stefanik.
Her rise on the national stage embarrasses all New Yorker’s. Please continue to call out her spread of misinformation.
Ironically, her actions are transparently political and nothing more. There is no soul here.