Dear MoveOn member,
If you watched any of the first few days of the impeachment hearings against Donald Trump, you may have noticed a new "star" featured in the Republicans' reality TV-style scheme to interrupt the hearings: Representative Elise Stefanik of New York.
Rep. Stefanik has taken center stage in the hearings, using every opportunity to attempt to undermine the rules, enter false and pointless content into the official record, and malign Democrats and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff—she even used the entirety of one of her question periods to read out the titles of news articles smearing Chairman Schiff. Trump called her "a new Republican star" because of her performance.1
Rep. Stefanik has made it clear that instead of advocating for our democracy and her constituents in New York's 21st Congressional District, one of the most critical swing districts in the country, she will blindly support Trump's criminality and corruption. We need to hold her accountable, Eddie.
The good news is that Rep. Stefanik's Democratic opponent, Tedra Cobb, is a dedicated public servant who is ready to serve the people of her district in northern New York and stand up to wannabe-tyrants like Trump. MoveOn members endorsed Cobb when she ran in 2018, and since the district now only leans Republican by four points, we CAN win this seat in 2020.
Here's where it gets even more exciting: In the first couple days after Rep. Stefanik's shameless display during the impeachment proceedings, Cobb's campaign raised more than $1 dollars from tens of thousands of grassroots donors. But let's not stop there.
With your help, we will send a clear message to Rep. Stefanik that her time in Washington is up—and show other Republicans that blind loyalty to Trump in spite of his crimes and corruption will carry political consequences next November.
Rep. Stefanik may have only received national attention recently with her performance in the impeachment hearings, but her career in Congress has long been one of claiming moderation while blindly supporting far-right policies and efforts to take rights away from her constituents.
- She voted against bipartisan background check legislation to curb gun violence.2
- She voted against the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act.3
- She voted against legislation to protect our elections from foreign interference.4
- She voted against raising the minimum wage.5
- She voted against the Paycheck Fairness Act, a bill that would make sure women receive equal pay for equal work.6
- And she voted to rip health care away from millions of Americans, again, and again, and again.7
In contrast, Cobb has spent her career advocating for the expansion of health care. She started a health clinic to provide care to rural communities and has served on HIV/AIDS outreach committees providing testing and education.
Cobb is dedicated to protecting health care for all Americans, addressing the gun violence epidemic, fighting climate change, and reforming the criminal justice system.
Unlike Rep. Elise Stefanik, Tedra Cobb will help push our country forward.
Will you chip in $3 to help her campaign raise over $2 million this week?
The first few days of the impeachment inquiry have shown just how far some Republicans are willing to go to deny reality in an effort to protect Trump.
In the face of damning testimony, Rep. Stefanik and others would do nothing else but deflect, lie, and attempt to turn the hearings into a circus.
Antics like that do not belong in Washington, and anyone so willing to continue to defend Trump's actions while hearing these facts should lose their job as a result. By supporting Cobb now, we not only can bring critical resources to a key district, but also send a message to Republicans across the country that there will be political consequences for enabling Trump's crimes.
Thanks for all you do.
–Dan, David, Kelly, Allison, and the rest of the team
Sources:
1. "Trump labels Stefanik a 'new Republican Star,'" The Hill, November 17, 2019
https://act.moveon.org/go/113190?t=5&akid=250830%2E10220574%2EhdfkD1
2. "Elise Stefanik's Voting Record," Vote Smart, accessed November 18, 2019
https://act.moveon.org/go/113189?t=7&akid=250830%2E10220574%2EhdfkD1
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid.
5. Ibid.
6. Ibid.
7. Ibid.
Want to support our work? The MoveOn community will work every moment, day by day and year by year, to resist Trump's agenda, contain the damage, defeat hate with love, and begin the process of swinging the nation's pendulum back toward sanity, decency, and the kind of future that we must never give up on. And to do it we need your support, now more than ever. Will you stand with us?
Click here to chip in $3, or whatever you can afford.
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