Latest letter to the Post Star in response to Elise's mouthpiece.
I want to join Tom Flanagin in urging people to watch the
Plattsburgh town hall with Rep. Stefanik at Mountain Lake PBS' website. It’s a
good opportunity to see her between now and next year's campaign ads. Debates,
who knows? There are two additional reasons, though.
The first is it disproves the notion that her constituents
are going to go on a rampage if she holds one. I was a lucky attendee and can
attest that there may have been a few groans but definitely no pitchforks.
Understandably, health care is an emotional issue. So watch for the
audio/visual evidence disproving that old saw.
The second reason is to see the gentleman questioning her at
a little over an hour and eight minutes in. He points out that she had seven
opportunities to sign onto a bill forcing President Trump to release his taxes.
She responds she's "called on the president to release his taxes" and
other obfuscations. The questioner persists by asking whether she'd vote for
tax cuts without knowing how it would affect Trump. She stuck to the
"calls for the president to release his taxes." I don't think that's
going to work. No matter how many times she asks. Or, for that matter, how many
times she's asked why she wouldn't vote to force the release of them. Are
checks and balances about giving aid and comfort to the White House? I don't
think she'll answer that either.
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