ICYMI: Zeldin’s Congressional Voting Record Vastly Out of Touch with New Yorkers
NEW YORK – New reporting by NY1 dives into Lee Zeldin’s recent record of voting against the best interests of New Yorkers, instead choosing to embrace the far-right fringes of his party. Zeldin’s voting record is a concrete example of his extreme views and his failure to support bipartisan legislation on issues widely supported by New Yorkers.
Rather than protecting abortion rights, keeping communities safe, and growing local economies, Zeldin chooses to put New Yorkers in harm’s way, and has a record to prove it.
Highlights from the story below.
NY1: A closer look at Zeldin’s voting record since becoming GOP nominee
By Kevin Frey, 8/9/22
Gov. Kathy Hochul is accusing her Republican opponent of voting against the best interest of New Yorkers, as Congress took up landmark legislation this summer tackling guns, abortion, and competition with China. […]
Zeldin, like most of his House Republican colleagues, voted “no” on legislation to:
- ban semi-automatic weapons
- guarantee access to contraception and abortion across the nation
- spend more than $200 billion to make the U.S. more competitive with China and boost the domestic manufacture of computer chips — bill that proponents say could be a boon for Upstate New York’s economy […]
One reason Democrats were eager to hold these votes was to force Republican candidates like Zeldin to choose between upsetting Republican base voters and more moderate swing voters.
In a statement, Hochul’s campaign accused Zeldin of “choosing the far-right fringes of his party.”
“From access to birth control to protecting New Yorkers from gun violence to creating more manufacturing jobs, Zeldin continues to vote against widely supported legislation, instead pushing his extremist agenda that puts New Yorkers in harm’s way,” said campaign spokeswoman Jen Goodman.
A recent poll from Siena College shows protections for abortion access and new restrictions on semi-automatic weapons to be highly popular in New York. […]