Jones’ Attacks on Lawler’s Record Are Clearly Off-Base
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When Rep. Mike Lawler appeared with law enforcement leaders in Rockland County last month, his opponent, Mondaire Jones, immediately took to Twitter to criticize Lawler’s work.
Jones claimed that Lawler voted three times to defund the police and touted his own support for Kamala Harris, a former prosecutor, as evidence that he is the real law and order candidate. I dug into this claim and found a few things of note that make Mondaire’s claims disingenuous at best.
It’s worth asking Mondaire what he would have done in Lawler’s shoes.
While Mondaire was in Congress, he had a unified government under COVID-19.
He rubberstamped some of the most oversized spending packages in history, throwing around money with little concern for the deficit. He voted with his party leadership 100 percent of the time. Jones is unlikely to have voted against Senate Majority Leader Schumer or President Biden if faced with the same spending packages that Lawler had to vote on; after all, he’d never done so before.
It’s also worth adding that the government would shut down if a spending agreement were not reached. These spending agreements, which dramatically reduced the growing deficit, were compromises that also protected Social Security and Medicaid. In return, modest cuts were made to a handful of federal agencies, not to the local police in our community.
Let’s be honest, if Mondaire had to choose between shutting down the federal government, reducing spending by federal agencies, cutting Social Security and Medicaid or letting our $35 trillion debt continue to spiral out of control, what would he have done? He would probably spend more money and let taxpayers suffer the consequences.
Most laughable of all is that Mondaire’s statements are unrecognizable from his record. He was a persistent advocate for defunding the police, he voted to let convicted felons vote from prison with no exceptions and he calls border security “white supremacy.”
The turnout at last month’s event confirms that only one candidate truly stands with law enforcement: Congressman Mike Lawler.
Lisa Galiardo
Somers
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