Cheating Dems to use shady special law to keep Stefanik’s House seat vacant

A New York Republican exposed the latest Democrat scheme meant to undermine President Donald Trump’s new administration.

Republican New York Assemblyman Matt Slater called out Democrats for their shady efforts to keep Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik’s House seat vacant if she is confirmed to move on to the role as the next U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.

Stefanik would be resigning from her House seat if she is confirmed by the Senate and New York Democrats are reportedly working on ways to keep that seat from being filled, planning to introduce legislation that would keep it vacant until primary elections in June.

“We still haven’t seen the final proposal from the Democrats in Albany, but there’s no doubt that Tammany Hall corruption is alive and well in the state capital,” Slater told Fox News Digital on Sunday.

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“It is just blatantly corrupt for the New York State Democrats to keep changing the rules of engagement simply out of self-interest. Meanwhile, New Yorkers are struggling in so many different ways. U-Haul just gave us our worst migration rating ever because there’s so many New Yorkers who are fleeing this state. So they can get things done, but they only do it when it benefits them,” added the GOP assemblyman who represents New York’s 94th district in Putnam and Westchester counties.

With Republicans holding a narrow majority with 218 members to the Democrats’ 215, Stefanik’s seat is key for the Trump administration. Once a seat is vacant, New York  Governor Kathy Hochul has 10 days to announce a special election with 80 to 90 days to hold the election, under current law in the Empire State.

Slater, the ranking Republican on the state’s Election Law Committee, noted that Democrats were called to an emergency conference last week purportedly to discuss legislation that would alter the state’s laws and allow the special election to be held back until the summer.

“Speaker Johnson has the hardest job in government right now, trying to keep the Republican conference, caucus together. This obviously would make that margin of Republican control that much more thin and that much more challenging for the speaker and, again, jeopardizing President Trump’s agenda to get through Congress,” Slater told Fox News Digital.

“That’s their entire mission and goal, the Albany Democrats, is to make sure that they’re combating President Trump each step of the way. And this is their latest way of doing it,” he said.

“If you look at the track record of the Democrats, who control every aspect of state government here in New York, they have changed the rules so many times just because it benefits them. Whether it’s redistricting, whether it’s stacking the Court of Appeals, whether it’s allowing the governor to remove her then-indicted lieutenant governor from the ballot. The list goes on and on,” he added.

“And in this case, it will deprive 800,000 New Yorkers of proper representation in Washington,” Slater continued. “And oh, by the way, there were two special elections last year. And the Democrats didn’t say anything about changing the rules because the fact of the matter is, these are Republican districts that will be impacted, and they are trying to disrupt the Trump administration and, frankly, Leader Johnson from being able to deliver on their agenda.”

The GOP lawmaker also called out Hochul for her claim that “it’s critical to increase voter turnout and reduce the cost of election administration, and she would support legislation that achieves that goal.”

“I can’t believe how hypocritical the governor and her office can be in this because let me remind the governor that she had two special elections for Congress last year,” he said.

“To sit here and say that this is going to save taxpayer money and increase voter turnout, but you didn’t think about that last year when your own party had special elections that you were favored to win?” he noted. “[It’s] so transparently political that New Yorkers need to wake up, and they need to understand that this isn’t the leadership that we’re asking for. President Trump has a great agenda moving forward, and this is all about disrupting that agenda to put America first.”

Frieda Powers

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