🧵: Republicans across New York and #NY21 had HISTORIC victories in last night’s local elections– handily DEFENDING Republican incumbents and WINNING upset victories in seats held by Democrats for decades and where Joe Biden previously won by over 30%.
Over the past decade, Team Elise has proudly helped build our grassroots infrastructure supporting local and county Republican candidates who WIN year after year. This election included many historic victories for Upstate NY Republicans. @NewYorkGOP
Republicans continue to show up in droves to VOTE against New York Democrats' Radical Leftist Policies, and we continue to hold @GOP control in ALL 15 Counties in #NY21. Thank you to Chairman Ed Cox and the @NewYorkGOP team for their strong support.
Republicans across #NY21 flipped many critical seats
🔵➡️🔴Congratulations to Constantine Orfan who FLIPPED Gloversville’s 1st Ward Supervisor seat. This had been a Democrat-held seat for over a decade!
🔵➡️🔴Congratulations to Kevin Bean who FLIPPED the Town of Johnsburg!
🔵➡️🔴Congratulations to Michael Putnam who FLIPPED the Mayor's seat in Alexandria Bay!
🔵➡️🔴Congratulations to a longtime friend of Team Elise, Brian Peck, who FLIPPED the Jefferson County Treasurer seat!
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Congratulations to City of Little Falls Mayor-Elect Deborah Kaufman on FLIPPING this critical city.
#NY21 voters proudly elected the first woman GOP Mayor in history!
Some MAJOR Republican victories in neighboring Upstate NY cities in longtime #TeamElise media markets, flipping seats that have been Democrat strongholds for years!
🔵➡️🔴 Mayor- Elect John Safford FLIPPED the City of Saratoga Springs for the first time in a decade in a city where Democrats heavily outnumber Republicans!
🔵➡️🔴 @CMantello FLIPPED the City of Troy and will be the first woman ever to serve as Mayor in a City Biden won by + 33%. #RedWave
🔵➡️🔴 @mikeforutica FLIPPED the City of Utica and will serve as the first Republican Mayor in 20 years in a City Biden won by +15% in 2020.
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I am publicly calling for an independent investigation into the serious allegations of pervasive workplace sexual harassment & verbal abuse by Governor Andrew Cuomo. The people of New York deserve a Governor who lives up to his own public statements on sexual harassment.👇THREAD
“The brave women who chose to come forward deserve swift and definitive justice in this matter.” - Cuomo (1/5)
“There can be no suggestion of any possibility of the reality or appearance of any conflict or anything less than a full, complete, and unbiased investigation.” - Cuomo (2/5)
Announced today: #EPAC's next round of endorsed Rising Star #GOPWomen candidates. More Republican women are running for Congress than ever before and we are in a STRONG position to take back the House with our endorsed candidates. elevate-pac.com/2020/06/10/new…
@JeanneIves running in #IL06 is a West Point graduate, US Army veteran, and former State House Rep. She has lived in #IL06 for 27 years, working on tax reform and government transparency -- while raising her 5 children. secure.winred.com/jeanneives/don…
@esther4congress is running in #IL17 and is an Army Reservist, small businesswoman, and attorney. She learned the value of serving her community through her parents who were missionaries along the US-Mexico border. secure.winred.com/estherforcongr…
Governor Cuomo continues to point fingers at the federal government.
But here are the FACTS regarding CDC guidance:
The Governor’s decisions to MANDATE that nursing homes accept COVID-19 patients completely disregards the case-by-case approach recommended by CDC.
CDC guidance was clear that decisions about discharging COVID-19 patients should be based on the ability of the accepting facility to meet the recommended infection control practices. This includes the ability to place residents in a designated COVID-19 care unit that is equipped
with the resources and PPE to safely prevent the spread of infections. Additionally, CDC guidance states that if nursing homes are unable to follow CDC guidance for COVID-19 patients under Transmission-Based Precautions, they must wait until these patients are no longer
THREAD: Today’s @poststar column by @kentingley ends with a dangerous allusion to gun violence and has no place on the pages of a serious community newspaper. This news editor is well aware of the impact of his words, and is completely unacceptable.
I unequivocally condemned violence of any kind, specifically violence against the press, at a public community event in Hudson Falls. The @poststar editor @KenTingley was in attendance but refused to publish my answer. WATCH 👇
Instead, he describes a typical campaign fundraising appeal describing Far-Left Democrat attacks on @realDonaldtrump supporters to “I wasn’t sure if she would be buying campaign ads or bullets.” @kentingley’s call to gun violence is shameful, untrue, outrageous, and dangerous.
Apparently the @gop@nrcc#EPAC success recruiting a historic number of women candidates for 2020 is triggering today’s @nytopinion page meltdown fueled by the #Resistance vortex. The NYT wishful thinking conveniently ignores the facts: (THREAD - this might be a long one)...
✔️Historic number of GOP women have filed to run for Congress in 2020 - 181 - more than ever before.
✔️Majority of @NRCC Young Guns (top tier candidates) are women. That’s never even been close before. Huge win for the cycle.
✔️GOP Women candidates are raising historic amounts of💰for their campaigns - in some cases outraising embattled Democrat incumbents. And outpolling them too.