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I have only one comment concerning the
articles I agreed with about Rep Lee Zeldin... REMEMBER... BIRDS OF
A FEATHER FLY TOGETHER...
John D. Langfeldt
Palm
Beach Gardens, FL
Congressmen Zeldin,
I have read
your letter. I humbly submit that your thoughts are rubbish. For
four years, you and certainly many others, have enabled President
Trump to saturate the body politic with lies. On January 6, 2021 you
along with 120 House members and 6 senators were determined to
contest certified Electoral Votes. Your action and that of those who
joined you are inextricably linked to the violence that occurred at
our nation’s Capital. I say this because all 50 states had certified
their Electoral Votes. Moreover, there have been over 50 lawsuits
and 2 Supreme Courts that concluded that there was no fraud.
Additionally, former cyber security chief Krebs has gone on record
that the 2020 election was the most secure and fair in our history.
Yet, you and 126 other members of Congress decided not to accept the
overwhelming evidence cited ( briefly here ). Instead, your decision
to proceed with a totally political charade links you to the
insurrection on the 6th.
Your letter is inadequate. It
informs myself and many of my neighbors that your relationship to
the President has absolutely influenced your judgment. Like many you
have heard from I strongly urge you to resign.
Farrell Decker
Giovanna LaFace
Brookhaven Hamlet, NY
Last Wednesday was a shocking and tragic
day for all of us, as we saw mobs attack our beloved US Capitol and
threaten our legislators and our election. As if that weren’t
horrific enough, we then witnessed a minority of elected officials
side with the insurrectionists and persist in trying to overturn the
Electoral College vote.
Sadly, our own Rep. Lee Zeldin was
one of the naysayers who has sought, since the Election, to nullify
the results of our free and fair vote. He is complicit in
misinforming constituents, stirring division and hatred in our
community, and instilling unreasoning fear among his followers.
On the morning of the Electoral College vote, Senate Majority
Leader Mitch McConnell, one of the leaders of Mr. Zeldin’s own
party, made an impassioned plea saying, "If this election were
overturned by mere allegations from the losing side, our democracy
would enter a death spiral. We’d never see the whole nation accept
an election again."
But that didn’t stop the renegades. Even
after the mob violence and destruction of the US Capitol that
afternoon, Mr. Zeldin persisted in going on the floor to try and
subvert the Electoral College vote and defend Trump's repeatedly
discredited claims of fraud that have been repeatedly debunked by
the courts and state election officials of both parties.
Mr.
Zeldin must be held accountable. For the sake of unity that he now
professes to care about, he must declare Biden the choice of the
American people. He must urge his radical supporters to stand down
and tell them he was wrong. He must ask them to fully cooperate with
the FBI and law enforcement.
Sue Hornik
Bellport
Village, NY
Dear Congressman Zeldin,
Ever
since pledging your allegiance to Trump, you have clearly lost your
way and do not deserve to represent the constituents of
Congressional District One (or any constituents of a 21st century
democracy.)
You lost your way by voting to roll back
environmental protections that would improve the air quality in our
district, the worst in the state. You lost your way by voting
against the environment 86% of the time. ( League of Conservation
Voters.)
You lost your way by voting against universal
background checks for gun sales and by championing legislation that
would allow out of staters to pack their guns when visiting New
York.
You lost your way by voting to keep dark money in the
election process and voting against election reform. You voted
against equal pay for equal work, and against protecting seniors
from age discrimination.
You lost your way by voting against
lowering drug prices, against funding to combat the opioid epidemic,
against research and development to better respond to pandemics and
biological warfare, against promoting vaccinations and combating
anti vaxx misinformation.
You lost your way by voting for
draconian cuts to health and human services, education and labor and
against reducing methane emissions by oil and gas companies and
against investing in America’s infrastructure. I could go on and on.
But most egregious of all: You lost whatever moral agency
you could cling to on January 6, 2021 when, due to your absolute
fealty to Trump, domestic terrorists felt emboldened to storm our
country’s most hallowed halls. Many of the thugs who broke into the
capital were homegrown terrorists from our congressional district,
avid consumers of Trump’s authoritarian rhetoric and deliberate
disinformation that you parroted on your social channels and during
your FOX News appearances. Five have died.
Even more
remarkable, within a few hours of this attack on our democracy, you
joined fellow Trump zealots in the House and Senate and voted
against certifying the election results in Pennsylvania and Arizona.
A stunt that reveals who you now truly are : A hack partisan who
will do anything to protect his political power and political
future. Ironically, an official member of the “swamp,” Trump vowed
to drain.
Mr. Zeldin, you have lost your way. But be assured
that we, your constituents, will help you find your way back — out
of Congress and back full time to Shirley after your next campaign
in 2022.
Betsy Craz
East Patchogue, NY
Regrettably, Congressman Lee Zeldin
signed on to an amicus brief filed with the Supreme Court that tried
to invalidate the election results won by Joseph Biden. I’m appalled
that Zeldin would support a frivolous lawsuit that asked the Supreme
Court to throw out the certified voting results of Michigan,
Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Georgia (battleground states) to keep
Donald Trump in office.
The suit contained many false and
ridiculous claims, and didn’t present any credible evidence of voter
fraud in an election Joe Biden won by wide margins in both the
popular vote and Electoral College.
The Supreme Court
dismissed the suit, just as many lower courts rejected dozens of
other Trump court challenges based on crazy conspiracy theories.
Enough with the nonsense. It’s time for Zeldin to stop undermining
our democratic process and get to work responding to the needs of
his constituents.
Larry Tierney
Brookhaven Hamlet
Representative Lee Zeldin has recently
emailed a survey to at least some of his constituents asking them
whether they believe that Members of Congress should object to the
Electoral College results on January 6. This despite the recent
Supreme Court dismissal of a lawsuit that would have given one state
the right to object to the election process in another state and
numerous court decisions rejecting false claims of voter fraud.
Asking his constituents whether Members of Congress should
decide the election rather than the American people helps fan the
flames of delusion rather than the ideals of our democratic
republic. Not only does this offense to the Constitution border on a
violation of Mr. Zeldin’s oath of office, it tears at the social
fabric that has enabled our CD-1 community to exist, prosper, and
care for each other.
Phyllis Hartmann
Bellport, NY