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Why can't we get rid of her? Can we start an impeachment against her? Or maybe just plain fire her. I am so sick of her ignorant sucking up to trump! When he is finally convicted, he will kick her to the curb, and I seriously doubt that she will get it through her stupid head that he is just using her. I wonder, again, if her husband knows about her strange obsession with trump.

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I supposed when the voters decide that the most important issue is “right vs. wrong” and not “GOP vs. Dem,” then there is a chance she could be voted out of office. It is up to the voters.

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The problem is the politically incorrect fact that Elise represents the desires of the majority of NY21 voters. Not the interests of NY21ers, mind you, but their desires. This is pretty clear by her election results.

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So let’s see-trump did nothing wrong but has been indicted 4 times for over 100 reasons. This of course is only a minute portion of the horrendous things he has done during his presidency and Lord only knows what he has done his entire life. Then, Elise and her friends along with Trump accuse Biden of doing the things Trump actually did, because everyone “wishes” that were the case and if you say often enough they will believe it. This is course doesn’t take into account Trumps children and their sleazy dealings and they worked in the White House with full clearance to access any information they wanted. All said, I think Joe should bow out. Not that I don’t love him but we need someone young and fresh to motivate our young folks to vote. Get a primary going and take away Republican’s focal point. Everyone wins. Then send trump and his son- in - law to prison.

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A new book about Mitch Romney is out this week where he is quite candid about how fellow Republicans in Congress actually feel about Trump. Interesting stuff.

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I wish they were honest about how they really feel. Cowardly behavior .

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The Atlantic had a long excerpt from Romney’s book yesterday.

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Stefanik is a loyal Republican, but not a partisan zealot. She wants to get things done and says she has found the frequent fighting over budget appropriations, among other things, frustrating.

But it’s unfair to make a congressional race in upstate New York a referendum on Donald Trump, as Mike Derrick has tried to do. Each candidate for Congress must make their own case for election, and Stefanik has done that by working hard, and compromising when necessary, to represent her district.

The key role of a member of congress is to serve as a voice for the people he or she represents, and Elise Stefanik will do that best.

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Beg to differ. She will do what she thinks is best for her. She is NOT representing the interests of the people in this district, unless they just happen to serve her interests.

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Sorry, but I have not seen what benefits Rep. Stefanik has brought to the region, especially with GOP in majority in the House. My beef with her is she is not truthful, never has been. But she is good at raising money and winning. I don’t think this is a referendum on Trump but on Stefanik’s inability to tell the truth and actually address issues facing the North Country.

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NY State has benefited from Senator Schumer's leadership role in the Senate. Interestingly, even though Rep Stefanik was a NO vote on many of the recent spending and pandemic response bills, she is quick to take credit for any funding that flows to her district.

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This is true.

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Ken, the words in my post are not my own. They are yours and the rest of the Post Star editorial staff. I copied and pasted them right out of the Post Star archives. If she has never been honest, why did you and the Post Star endorse her twice? You came close to endorsing her back in 2018.

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The people that she represents, for the most part, don't lie. She is in someone's immortal words, "lying trash." Oh yeah, the people that she represents, for the most part, are not trash either.

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If Elise Stefanik isn’t a partisan zealot, I’d hate to see what one looks like. She’s to the right of Joe McCarthy.

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I can’t remember a time since ES joined team Trump that she has held a live (unscripted) q&a session with her constituents. She pretty much avoids Glens Falls completely rather than face the possibility of live questions. I have been on the phone for one of her “telephone town halls” listening to her shuffle papers at (what sounded like) her kitchen table looking for talking points to answer obvious planted questions (a common practice for politicians). Nothing that comes from this woman’s mouth is factual. Her blatant reach for power parallels that of Kevin McCarthy. She is a disgrace to the office she holds and an embarrassment to the folks she represents.

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She was handed one of the safest seats in Congress. No question in my mind that she is little more than a partisan hack who is very good at obeying orders. I'm not convinced she is capable of independent thought, regardless of her education...

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“...she had without exception the most stupid, vulgar, empty mind that he had ever encountered. She had not a thought in her head that was not a slogan, and there was no imbecility, absolutely none that she was not capable of swallowing if the Party handed it out to her. 'The human sound-track' he nicknamed her in his own mind.” - George Orwell, 1984

And Harvard educated to boot! 😳

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Elise Marie Stefanik born July 2, 1984 - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Instead of briefing Trump, she should be briefing her constituents. Oh wait, she'd only lie. Never mind.

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This is my nightmare: The ticket of Trump and Stefanik prevails because of disinformation and innuendos about Biden's age and competency. Trump is sent off to jail after conviction of some, all or any of the 91 charges he's currently facing. And then it's Hail, President Stefanik.

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I’m sure that is her dream!

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OMG, that is quite a nightmare.

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M hope is that Stefanik will keep up this silliness and eventually turn off the moderates and independents in the North Country. The level of republican ignorance in this area is astounding, however, if independents move away from her after all this silliness, she could lose...of course, the dems have to field a viable candidate...UGH!!!

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This district, unfortunately, can in no way be considered competitive. Stefanik's predecessor Bill Owens (Plattsburgh), the last Democrat to hold the seat, only managed to get in because the local GOP was fractured into two feuding camps at the time. When Elise was first elected (the youngest female in Congress prior to AOC), I was encouraged that she desired to follow his model of being focused on bipartisanship and good constituent service. A few rides on Air Force One was all it took for her to get totally subsumed into the Trump cult. I was very unhappy seeing the way in which she questioned Col. Vindman during the hearings leading up to Trump's first impeachment; he and his brother, committed to honesty and truthfulness, both ended up having to retire early from the Army. A successful primary challenge to Elise would likely have to come from someone further to the right, for which most of us have no appetite. The Democrats really do need to find someone moderate and sensible like Owens; their past choices have been lacking. Tedra Cobb arguably had stronger roots in the district, but her positions were too far left to appeal broadly here. I liked Matt Castelli but thought he had a little tinge of arrogance that turned me off; I think he should have considered shaving off his beard to appear more down-to-earth.

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I totally agree with you Dana...and Matt Castelli was an extreme disappointment...ugh!

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Another column filled with excellent observations. I don't think the occasion will ever arise when I actually defend Stefanik's actions, but I have to acknowledge that everything she does, from posing by billboards with obscene gestures aimed at our President, to shamelessly defending the corrupt acts of our former president, is supported by the lion's share of the voters in her district. So I guess you could say that she is representing her district. That, to me, is the most disturbing aspect of her reign.

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She wants to be Trump's VP candidate so bad.

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I’m surprised Stefanik isn’t taking part in the fight between Marge and Bevis Gaetz over who gets credit for the impeachment.

Also, Ken Buck’s moment of reasonableness has passed. This is a tweet from Sahil Kapur:

GOP Rep. Ken Buck, who has been speaking out against an impeachment inquiry, now tells me it’s “a good idea” for McCarthy to launch this inquiry, saying it removes a “distraction” and lets the House “focus on spending.”

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<b>”Well, we’ve never claimed that we have direct money going to the president, but many members of his family have received money from foreign governments,” Langworthy said.

Turner interrupted to correct him: “That is precisely the claim that the chairman of your committee, James Comer, and also Jim Jordan have made many times,” she said, referring to House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan, who alongside Comer has spearheaded the charge against Biden.</b>

That’s from a New Republic interview with Rep. Langworthy from downstate. He’s one of 18 Republicans in Biden districts.

The impeachment probably isn’t going to help Trump. Any House members who don’t vote for are threatened with primary opponents by Dear Leader. So, the Republican House majority likely is going to be short lived. I don’t expect to hear Elise braying about a red tsunami next year.

Hopefully, she does get the Veep spot and we get rid of her. The downside is I’ll probably end up in a gulag if President Retribution gets elected.

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Stefanik is a menace. But Lauren Boebert is an idiot.

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The more I hear and read from Stefanik, the more I am disappointed. Bombastic and clearly a pawn for a rich man with several criminal indictments, I feel she is wasting our tax $ by ignoring the concerns about the environment, healthcare, and education.

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Elise and her fellow MAGAs claim that the "migrant crisis" is a major problem and that (of course) it's all Biden's fault. So what does McCarthy make the House do, with her support? Pass some kind of immigration reform? Nope. Open a Benghazi-style fishing expedition against the president and his family. Not one iota of anything for those of us who (unlike them) actually work for a living.

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