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Statement from NYSYR Chairman Peter Giunta on NY Democrats latest attack on democracy

By February 8, 2025Statements

“It is appalling but certainly not surprising that New York Democrats are trying to move the goalpost in yet another eleventh-hour attempt to cling onto waning power. In doing so, they will effectively deny federal representation for as long as nine months to approximately 750,000 constituents – people of all political affiliations and backgrounds – who reside in the 21st Congressional District in New York’s rural North Country.

Like Andrew Cuomo before her, Kathy Hochul and New York Democrats are making a huge mistake by conspiring with Hakeem Jeffries to disenfranchise voters and bring Congress to a grinding halt. Jeffries and his Democrats were decisively denied a majority by the American people last November – and now they intend to punish us all for it.

These are the desperate and cowardly acts of a party in decline – but it is business as usual for the failing New York Democrats. History repeats itself, indeed, and history tells us that Democrats will not get away with this.”