Elise Stefanik (Republican) House of Representatives, NY-21, candidate profile
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Elise Stefanik
Position: I am running for re-election to represent New York’s 21st Congressional District which includes all of Clinton, Essex, Franklin, Fulton, Hamilton, Herkimer, Lewis, Schoharie, St. Lawrence, Warren and Washington counties, and parts of Jefferson, Montgomery, Oneida and Saratoga counties.
Why are you running?
I am proud to work tirelessly every day to deliver results for hardworking families, small businesses, farms, students, seniors, service members, military families, law enforcement officers, and veterans in Upstate NY and the North Country. As House GOP Conference Chair, I am unapologetic about fighting each day to give my constituents a seat at the absolute highest levels of government. I am proud to be recognized as one of the most effective and bipartisan Members of Congress. I am focused on lowering inflation, securing the border including increasing resources for our Northern border, supporting local small businesses and agriculture, standing with law enforcement, and as the chief advocate for Fort Drum soldiers and military families as well as our local veterans.
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Paula Collins (Democrat) House of Representatives, NY-21, candidate profile
Paula Collins (Democrat) House of Representatives, NY-21, candidate profile
What in your background makes you qualified for this position?
I have a proven record as one of the most effective Members of Congress and have successfully solved tens of thousands of constituent casework like claiming millions in Social Security and Medicare benefits for seniors, millions of VA benefits, and significant local grants. I have delivered over $800 million directly to our district and have proudly participated in thousands of local events with constituents. I am the only candidate who was born, raised, and actually lives and votes in Upstate New York and I grew up in a small business family. I am proud to be recognized as one of the most effective advocates for small businesses in Congress. I ran on and have delivered a new generation of leadership to our district and have consistently delivered real results.
What major issues do you see in your district that you hope to address?
I will work to reverse inflation by cutting wasteful spending, reducing regulations, and cutting taxes. I will also work to expand American energy independence to lower energy, utility, and home heating costs. Defending our 2nd Amendment Rights is always a top priority for our district, and I am proud to have earned the highest rating (A+) for standing up for the Constitution. Our district is home to the highest number of veterans in NY, and I will continue to deliver VA benefits and improve veterans’ services. I will also work to help strengthen Social Security and Medicare. I will continue to support law enforcement by protecting qualified immunity, opposing New York’s pro-crime Bail Reform, and holding Far Left politicians accountable for dangerous policies that endanger our police. Both our open borders are having a devastating impact on our district. I will work to secure both the northern and southern border.
If elected, what will be your top three priorities that you would hope to address in your first term?
1: I will fight to reverse inflation and grow the economy by supporting local small businesses and manufacturers and increasing broadband and workforce development in the North Country.
2: As Co-Chair of the Northern Border Caucus, I will work to secure our border by building the wall at our Southern Border, ending catch and release, restoring remain in Mexico, and increasing border patrol officers at the Northern Border.
3: I will continue to advocate for our veterans and military families by improving VA services and casework as I have done for the past decade. I will also continue to serve on the House Armed Services Committee to represent Fort Drum and the 10th Mountain Division.
Every week I receive an email from Ms. Stefanik detailing all (!) her wonderful work for NY-21. I tire of reading how she "delivers" when she takes credit for a bill that she voted against! When I try to respond, my response is returned as "a suspicious site!" Has anyone else had this experience?
When all is said and done, the problem our country faces is not Elise Stefanik, or even Donald Trump. It's ourselves.
No matter who wins the 2024 presidential election, we'll still be a divided country when it comes to certain American values. Values like resolving political differences through voting, rather than through threats of force and violence. Values like accepting the results of an election. Values like the peaceful transfer of government power.
If we as a country maintained these values in principle and practice, people like Donald Trump and Elise Stefanik could never be tolerated as candidates for office. But they're not only tolerated, they're revered.
This division is strange to me, because even as individuals with different political beliefs, we have much more in common than what divides us. But here we are.
So yes, we're on the precipice of possibly electing a man who does not recognize our basic American values of democracy, free elections, and civil politics. But it's more concerning that such a man has the support of half of our country. Our country facilitated Trump's political rise.
What does that say about our country? What does that say about us?
Some good points. The reality is that only about 50 percent of people vote regularly. There is an uptick during presidential elections - which in many ways affect us less, but not this year - and school elections are usually under 10 percent. Politicians realized there is not only voter malaise but they don't pay attention to what they do anyway.
While it’s depressing that we could elect an unfit man as president again, it’s equally true that we could elect an ethical, moral, and competent woman as president. So I do have hope.
Polls show a fairly even chance of either candidate being elected. My hope springs from the possibility that the polls are undercounting the actual turnout of voters. In such a close election, newly-registered voters and unlikely voters — both of whom may not show up in the polling data — can have a significant impact on who’s elected.
Yes she is. She can help lead us out of the mess Trump has produced.
I do believe that an ethical, stable, and competent president, as Kamala Harris will be, can effectively counter the selfishness and chaos that the corrupt and incompetent Trump produces.
One person who’s not going to improve anything economically or in any other way is the rambling, incoherent, boorish ass who proved at the Chicago Economic Club yesterday that he couldn’t successfully run a lemonade stand if he didn’t have his daddy or ignorant bankers or the Russian mob or Mark Burnett there to save him.
That appearance came a day after he shuffled and swayed for 39 minutes to one of the most godawfully unhinged playlists ever rather than answer questions at a town hall while a puppy murderer stood next to him grinning. Elise must be so sad she couldn’t have taken part.
I don't have any faith in any of the polls. In a cell phone world where people can screen spam and unwanted calls, who is taking part in these polls is the real question. I don't think the pollsters have an accurate reading on any of it. Just one person's opinion.
Ordinarily I would not respond to a supercilious and offensive response like this one, but frankly it is worth considering the comparison.
The Taliban are an authoritarian fundamentalist movement intent on building a government based on a religious ideology that denies equal rights to virtually any group that is not Aryan and male. I use the word Aryan because the Taliban is a largely Pashtun group descended from the Indo/Aryan/Iranic steppe peoples that founded many great ancient civilizations and were deeply entwined with religious movements such as Hinduism, Buddhism, and Zoroastrianism - from which much of the Old Testament borrows.
Historically Buddhism and particularly Zoroastrianism (Zoroaster himself likely came from the great city of Balk which lies in northern Afghanistan) were religiously tolerant and multi-ethnic. The cultural practice of Pakhtunwali is an ancient system of laws based in custom and in effect representative democracy.
In my youth Afghanistan was poor, but largely peaceful and tolerant. That began to change with intervention of the Soviet Union and the countering by the US in effect using Afghanistan and its people in a Cold War proxy fight. The US and fundamentalist Saudis developed a network of the most ruthless and fundamentalist warlords bent on instituting a religious form of fascism. In the end that was successful and today there are rules that prohibit women from being seen or even heard in public.
So, if I were to make a comparison between Trump and the Taliban I feel like we in the US are at about a similar point to Afghanistan of the early 1990’s when having driven out the Soviet Union the mujaheddin fell to fighting among themselves, bureaucrats were targeted for assassination, and the Taliban movement grew out of the chaos through instilling fear among their neighbors with night letters threatening whole families if they did not conform to fundamentalist ideology. Whole towns were cowed to silence through public beatings and even night hangings in public squares of people who stood against their intolerant beliefs.
In this country Trump is proud to have seated Justices on the Supreme Court who insisted Roe v Wade was settled law during their confirmation hearings then turned around and eliminated it. He feels good about returning women’s basic rights to the states and we have states in this country that are Taliban level barbaric, for example forcing a 10 year old victim of incestuous rape to see her pregnancy through to whatever conclusion biology dictates, potentially death.
So, hahaha! Lolololol!!!! Yes, I am comparing Trump to the Taliban.
If you drive around and read the slogans on Trump supporter’s signs and flags you will see a form of the threats of night letters - the difference here is that they are in the people’s lawns so you have a clue who might show up to drag you out of your home and beat you or mutilate and kill you if you are someone they deem to be pedophiles or groomers, etc.
And having been called a pedophile, a groomer, and all sorts of other stuff by my fellow Americans, having had people step into my yard and trash my lawn signs because people don’t agree with the political philosophies I support I see a lot of parallels with Trumpism and the Taliban.
Trump is dead serious. And one more thing about the hellscape Project 2025 offers is a chapter on altering and/or abolishing the Federal Reserve and reinstating the gold standard to control inflation. I wrote a Substack titled "Project 2025: Scrap the Fed." Every historic instance shows that the gold standard is a tragic failure the hits the poor and the middle class the hardest. The "gold bugs" who have been hammering away for decades to reinstall the gold standard would reap the most incredible windfall because the entirety of all the gold mined in human history if melted down would result in a cube that measures 73 feet on each side. While gold continues to be mined, the rate at which it is mined and refined considerably lags the need to print dollars. What this means is that the gold standard hogties the hands of those responsible for monetary policy. Inflation is not caused by the elasticity that the Fed enjoys. It is caused by emergent events like wars, COVID, recessions and depressions. What it provides to those who champion it is complete control without accountability and all the opportunities imaginable for mischief. Those appointed would control all the money, and they would be answerable to Donald J. Trump, the most corrupt occupier of the White House in our history.
There are many Trump supporters who themselves say they are white supremacists, neo-Nazis, white nationalists, and Christian nationalists. Liberals don’t need to label them - they label themselves.
How dare Democrats label Trump supporters with the labels they themselves adopt? The guy at the Capitol insurrection in the Camp Auschwitz shirt would be so hurt.
When Trump is out talking about the enemy within he’s pretty much quoting Nazis. It doesn’t sound any better in English.
The Atlantic magazine in it's November 2024 issue has endorsed Kamala Harris for president. What's important is that the magazine has only endorsed 4 presidential candidates since it's inception in 1857. The reasoning for the endorsement does not lie with Harris' policies or partisanship, it's this: "Electing her and defeating him is the only way to release us from the political nightmare in which we are trapped and bring us to the next phase of the American experiment". It is unfortunate though that those who need to hear the message will not, I am very fearful of the very possible outcome.
TY for the definition of fascism. It is scary, all the dictatorships around the world and now a clear threat is looming here. Oaths of office seem like empty words when we see the actions of those elected.
I dream of a Yankee's World Series Win and a full Democratic Sweep of the Presidency, House & Senate. I have written postcards, sent money and engage with as many people as I can (except for those I know are truly gone to the other side). Many or most who blindly follow him never see or read what the rest of us do. His "interviews" of late and rallies are downright frightening.
I am totally mystified by the failure of our local Magas to appreciate the diabolical intentions revealed in the Project 2025 document. From concentration camps for pre-deportee brown people to the extreme politicization of SCOTUS to the use of our military to effect retaliation on their American "enemies," the Trump supporters seem to deny their morph to Fascism. A President Trump would join Congresswoman Stefanik in doing nothing for upstate New York and its needy population. A President Trump would continue to pervert the truth. We MUST vote a Democratic ticket if we are to save a democratic nation.
“Early voting began today in Georgia, where more than 328,000 voters smashed the previous record of 136,000 set in 2020, during the worst of the pandemic.”
That’s from Heather Cox Richardson’s substack. It’s hard for me to believe that people are turning out enthusiastically to vote for Donald Trump. Polls are ridiculous. They could be right. They could be wrong.
Add this piece to Doolittle's piece on Oct. 13, and what are WE going to do about it? Anyone? I'm listening. How about a peaceful march on Stefanik's Glens Falls office, demanding that she take her facism elsewhere. Bring your own bricks.
Herkimer only gets a phone number. She also condensed her comment section to the size of these boxes. She's obviously soooo interested in her constituents. /s
Further insights into where the Trump/Stefanik supporters are coming from resulted from my planting a Harris/Walz sign in my front yard. It generated several direct and indirect responses from those in the neighborhood community. A couple ran along the lines of "I'd never vote for a Democrat one even going so far as observing "I'd never vote for a G-D donkey candidate!" Not much room for civil discourse there!
Others claiming "we're not yet ready for a woman President" We need to demonstrate strength in the White House! Another chimed in that she didn't vote for Obama and she wasn't about to vote for Harris. Guess we know how that translates! Oh my...talk about moving backward not forward.
KEN, you are not a ridiculously ranting old man. You are right on. We face an existential threat and need to be serious about getting out the vote to defeat Trump and Stefanic. How any rational, educated person could see otherwise is beyond my understanding.
One of my biggest concerns at the moment is that some Trump diehards have formed militia groups in various states. We just saw militia in N. C. angered at FEMA due to Trump's lies about FEMA. Perhaps best that Democrats do early voting in order to avoid polling sites on Election Day.
I plan to do so.
What are your thoughts on this Ken Tingley and others?
Speaking of liars, did you all read this statement from Stefanik?
https://poststar.com/news/local/government-politics/elections/elise-stefanik-candidate-congress-ny-21/article_03f596ea-87da-11ef-a180-7b641c14a056.html
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Elise Stefanik (Republican) House of Representatives, NY-21, candidate profile
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Congresswoman Elise Stefanik
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Editor’s note: The candidates answered a Post-Star questionnaire that asked about their qualifications for the office they seek, the reasons they are running and what their priorities are. This is the candidate’s statement. We did not edit, fact-check or otherwise change the answers, except to truncate for space if needed.
Elise Stefanik
Position: I am running for re-election to represent New York’s 21st Congressional District which includes all of Clinton, Essex, Franklin, Fulton, Hamilton, Herkimer, Lewis, Schoharie, St. Lawrence, Warren and Washington counties, and parts of Jefferson, Montgomery, Oneida and Saratoga counties.
Why are you running?
I am proud to work tirelessly every day to deliver results for hardworking families, small businesses, farms, students, seniors, service members, military families, law enforcement officers, and veterans in Upstate NY and the North Country. As House GOP Conference Chair, I am unapologetic about fighting each day to give my constituents a seat at the absolute highest levels of government. I am proud to be recognized as one of the most effective and bipartisan Members of Congress. I am focused on lowering inflation, securing the border including increasing resources for our Northern border, supporting local small businesses and agriculture, standing with law enforcement, and as the chief advocate for Fort Drum soldiers and military families as well as our local veterans.
People are also reading…
New bookstore is a best seller
Jacqueline "Jackie" Marie (Sumner) Trackey
Glens Falls football game ends early; Schuylerville's Bowen reaches milestone; and more
Outdoor pizza oven on Dix Avenue goes back to Planning
Editor’s Note: Stefanik is facing Paula Collins in November...
Paula Collins (Democrat) House of Representatives, NY-21, candidate profile
Paula Collins (Democrat) House of Representatives, NY-21, candidate profile
What in your background makes you qualified for this position?
I have a proven record as one of the most effective Members of Congress and have successfully solved tens of thousands of constituent casework like claiming millions in Social Security and Medicare benefits for seniors, millions of VA benefits, and significant local grants. I have delivered over $800 million directly to our district and have proudly participated in thousands of local events with constituents. I am the only candidate who was born, raised, and actually lives and votes in Upstate New York and I grew up in a small business family. I am proud to be recognized as one of the most effective advocates for small businesses in Congress. I ran on and have delivered a new generation of leadership to our district and have consistently delivered real results.
What major issues do you see in your district that you hope to address?
I will work to reverse inflation by cutting wasteful spending, reducing regulations, and cutting taxes. I will also work to expand American energy independence to lower energy, utility, and home heating costs. Defending our 2nd Amendment Rights is always a top priority for our district, and I am proud to have earned the highest rating (A+) for standing up for the Constitution. Our district is home to the highest number of veterans in NY, and I will continue to deliver VA benefits and improve veterans’ services. I will also work to help strengthen Social Security and Medicare. I will continue to support law enforcement by protecting qualified immunity, opposing New York’s pro-crime Bail Reform, and holding Far Left politicians accountable for dangerous policies that endanger our police. Both our open borders are having a devastating impact on our district. I will work to secure both the northern and southern border.
If elected, what will be your top three priorities that you would hope to address in your first term?
1: I will fight to reverse inflation and grow the economy by supporting local small businesses and manufacturers and increasing broadband and workforce development in the North Country.
2: As Co-Chair of the Northern Border Caucus, I will work to secure our border by building the wall at our Southern Border, ending catch and release, restoring remain in Mexico, and increasing border patrol officers at the Northern Border.
3: I will continue to advocate for our veterans and military families by improving VA services and casework as I have done for the past decade. I will also continue to serve on the House Armed Services Committee to represent Fort Drum and the 10th Mountain Division.
I couldn't get past the first sentence. Even the photo slapped onto the page is a lie - it's her original photo from 10 years ago.
I hope you will also read the candidate profile the Post Star did on me.
I did, Paula. Thank you for running. You have my support.
Every week I receive an email from Ms. Stefanik detailing all (!) her wonderful work for NY-21. I tire of reading how she "delivers" when she takes credit for a bill that she voted against! When I try to respond, my response is returned as "a suspicious site!" Has anyone else had this experience?
When all is said and done, the problem our country faces is not Elise Stefanik, or even Donald Trump. It's ourselves.
No matter who wins the 2024 presidential election, we'll still be a divided country when it comes to certain American values. Values like resolving political differences through voting, rather than through threats of force and violence. Values like accepting the results of an election. Values like the peaceful transfer of government power.
If we as a country maintained these values in principle and practice, people like Donald Trump and Elise Stefanik could never be tolerated as candidates for office. But they're not only tolerated, they're revered.
This division is strange to me, because even as individuals with different political beliefs, we have much more in common than what divides us. But here we are.
So yes, we're on the precipice of possibly electing a man who does not recognize our basic American values of democracy, free elections, and civil politics. But it's more concerning that such a man has the support of half of our country. Our country facilitated Trump's political rise.
What does that say about our country? What does that say about us?
Some good points. The reality is that only about 50 percent of people vote regularly. There is an uptick during presidential elections - which in many ways affect us less, but not this year - and school elections are usually under 10 percent. Politicians realized there is not only voter malaise but they don't pay attention to what they do anyway.
While it’s depressing that we could elect an unfit man as president again, it’s equally true that we could elect an ethical, moral, and competent woman as president. So I do have hope.
Polls show a fairly even chance of either candidate being elected. My hope springs from the possibility that the polls are undercounting the actual turnout of voters. In such a close election, newly-registered voters and unlikely voters — both of whom may not show up in the polling data — can have a significant impact on who’s elected.
Yes she is. She can help lead us out of the mess Trump has produced.
I do believe that an ethical, stable, and competent president, as Kamala Harris will be, can effectively counter the selfishness and chaos that the corrupt and incompetent Trump produces.
One person who’s not going to improve anything economically or in any other way is the rambling, incoherent, boorish ass who proved at the Chicago Economic Club yesterday that he couldn’t successfully run a lemonade stand if he didn’t have his daddy or ignorant bankers or the Russian mob or Mark Burnett there to save him.
That appearance came a day after he shuffled and swayed for 39 minutes to one of the most godawfully unhinged playlists ever rather than answer questions at a town hall while a puppy murderer stood next to him grinning. Elise must be so sad she couldn’t have taken part.
https://youtu.be/HE_IjWHHHHg?si=RaEjVyI89RxQVvxz
I don't have any faith in any of the polls. In a cell phone world where people can screen spam and unwanted calls, who is taking part in these polls is the real question. I don't think the pollsters have an accurate reading on any of it. Just one person's opinion.
As Yogi Berra supposedly said once, "It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future."
As a dual US-Afghan citizen I would appreciate all of you to doing me a favor and voting for Kamala Harris.
Ordinarily I would not respond to a supercilious and offensive response like this one, but frankly it is worth considering the comparison.
The Taliban are an authoritarian fundamentalist movement intent on building a government based on a religious ideology that denies equal rights to virtually any group that is not Aryan and male. I use the word Aryan because the Taliban is a largely Pashtun group descended from the Indo/Aryan/Iranic steppe peoples that founded many great ancient civilizations and were deeply entwined with religious movements such as Hinduism, Buddhism, and Zoroastrianism - from which much of the Old Testament borrows.
Historically Buddhism and particularly Zoroastrianism (Zoroaster himself likely came from the great city of Balk which lies in northern Afghanistan) were religiously tolerant and multi-ethnic. The cultural practice of Pakhtunwali is an ancient system of laws based in custom and in effect representative democracy.
In my youth Afghanistan was poor, but largely peaceful and tolerant. That began to change with intervention of the Soviet Union and the countering by the US in effect using Afghanistan and its people in a Cold War proxy fight. The US and fundamentalist Saudis developed a network of the most ruthless and fundamentalist warlords bent on instituting a religious form of fascism. In the end that was successful and today there are rules that prohibit women from being seen or even heard in public.
So, if I were to make a comparison between Trump and the Taliban I feel like we in the US are at about a similar point to Afghanistan of the early 1990’s when having driven out the Soviet Union the mujaheddin fell to fighting among themselves, bureaucrats were targeted for assassination, and the Taliban movement grew out of the chaos through instilling fear among their neighbors with night letters threatening whole families if they did not conform to fundamentalist ideology. Whole towns were cowed to silence through public beatings and even night hangings in public squares of people who stood against their intolerant beliefs.
In this country Trump is proud to have seated Justices on the Supreme Court who insisted Roe v Wade was settled law during their confirmation hearings then turned around and eliminated it. He feels good about returning women’s basic rights to the states and we have states in this country that are Taliban level barbaric, for example forcing a 10 year old victim of incestuous rape to see her pregnancy through to whatever conclusion biology dictates, potentially death.
So, hahaha! Lolololol!!!! Yes, I am comparing Trump to the Taliban.
If you drive around and read the slogans on Trump supporter’s signs and flags you will see a form of the threats of night letters - the difference here is that they are in the people’s lawns so you have a clue who might show up to drag you out of your home and beat you or mutilate and kill you if you are someone they deem to be pedophiles or groomers, etc.
And having been called a pedophile, a groomer, and all sorts of other stuff by my fellow Americans, having had people step into my yard and trash my lawn signs because people don’t agree with the political philosophies I support I see a lot of parallels with Trumpism and the Taliban.
Yes. And so has the whole GOP.
Trump is dead serious. And one more thing about the hellscape Project 2025 offers is a chapter on altering and/or abolishing the Federal Reserve and reinstating the gold standard to control inflation. I wrote a Substack titled "Project 2025: Scrap the Fed." Every historic instance shows that the gold standard is a tragic failure the hits the poor and the middle class the hardest. The "gold bugs" who have been hammering away for decades to reinstall the gold standard would reap the most incredible windfall because the entirety of all the gold mined in human history if melted down would result in a cube that measures 73 feet on each side. While gold continues to be mined, the rate at which it is mined and refined considerably lags the need to print dollars. What this means is that the gold standard hogties the hands of those responsible for monetary policy. Inflation is not caused by the elasticity that the Fed enjoys. It is caused by emergent events like wars, COVID, recessions and depressions. What it provides to those who champion it is complete control without accountability and all the opportunities imaginable for mischief. Those appointed would control all the money, and they would be answerable to Donald J. Trump, the most corrupt occupier of the White House in our history.
Don't forget about the Mets!!!! Ya Gotta Believe!!!
Or the Yankees....
Thanks for your timely commentary. History teaches us that when someone with authoritarian leanings says something, believe them.
There are many Trump supporters who themselves say they are white supremacists, neo-Nazis, white nationalists, and Christian nationalists. Liberals don’t need to label them - they label themselves.
How dare Democrats label Trump supporters with the labels they themselves adopt? The guy at the Capitol insurrection in the Camp Auschwitz shirt would be so hurt.
When Trump is out talking about the enemy within he’s pretty much quoting Nazis. It doesn’t sound any better in English.
The Atlantic magazine in it's November 2024 issue has endorsed Kamala Harris for president. What's important is that the magazine has only endorsed 4 presidential candidates since it's inception in 1857. The reasoning for the endorsement does not lie with Harris' policies or partisanship, it's this: "Electing her and defeating him is the only way to release us from the political nightmare in which we are trapped and bring us to the next phase of the American experiment". It is unfortunate though that those who need to hear the message will not, I am very fearful of the very possible outcome.
TY for the definition of fascism. It is scary, all the dictatorships around the world and now a clear threat is looming here. Oaths of office seem like empty words when we see the actions of those elected.
I dream of a Yankee's World Series Win and a full Democratic Sweep of the Presidency, House & Senate. I have written postcards, sent money and engage with as many people as I can (except for those I know are truly gone to the other side). Many or most who blindly follow him never see or read what the rest of us do. His "interviews" of late and rallies are downright frightening.
Lambs to a slaughter.
this scares the *hit out of me. We have guests visiting from Chicago and they haven’t heard of Elise. Weird to think she is not a national story.
I am totally mystified by the failure of our local Magas to appreciate the diabolical intentions revealed in the Project 2025 document. From concentration camps for pre-deportee brown people to the extreme politicization of SCOTUS to the use of our military to effect retaliation on their American "enemies," the Trump supporters seem to deny their morph to Fascism. A President Trump would join Congresswoman Stefanik in doing nothing for upstate New York and its needy population. A President Trump would continue to pervert the truth. We MUST vote a Democratic ticket if we are to save a democratic nation.
“Early voting began today in Georgia, where more than 328,000 voters smashed the previous record of 136,000 set in 2020, during the worst of the pandemic.”
That’s from Heather Cox Richardson’s substack. It’s hard for me to believe that people are turning out enthusiastically to vote for Donald Trump. Polls are ridiculous. They could be right. They could be wrong.
Add this piece to Doolittle's piece on Oct. 13, and what are WE going to do about it? Anyone? I'm listening. How about a peaceful march on Stefanik's Glens Falls office, demanding that she take her facism elsewhere. Bring your own bricks.
If you go on her email contact sheet, you will see that she no longer has an office in Glens Falls.
Seehttps://stefanik.house.gov/offices
Amazing.
Herkimer only gets a phone number. She also condensed her comment section to the size of these boxes. She's obviously soooo interested in her constituents. /s
Further insights into where the Trump/Stefanik supporters are coming from resulted from my planting a Harris/Walz sign in my front yard. It generated several direct and indirect responses from those in the neighborhood community. A couple ran along the lines of "I'd never vote for a Democrat one even going so far as observing "I'd never vote for a G-D donkey candidate!" Not much room for civil discourse there!
Others claiming "we're not yet ready for a woman President" We need to demonstrate strength in the White House! Another chimed in that she didn't vote for Obama and she wasn't about to vote for Harris. Guess we know how that translates! Oh my...talk about moving backward not forward.
KEN, you are not a ridiculously ranting old man. You are right on. We face an existential threat and need to be serious about getting out the vote to defeat Trump and Stefanic. How any rational, educated person could see otherwise is beyond my understanding.
Thanks Ted.
One of my biggest concerns at the moment is that some Trump diehards have formed militia groups in various states. We just saw militia in N. C. angered at FEMA due to Trump's lies about FEMA. Perhaps best that Democrats do early voting in order to avoid polling sites on Election Day.
I plan to do so.
What are your thoughts on this Ken Tingley and others?