Category Archives: Zeldin

Zeldin features Estonian lighthouse in Ad about Long Island

Posted on September 21, 2018 by David Posnett

  The Montauk Lighthouse as seen in 2015 next to an image of the Pakri Lighthouse in Estonia shown in Lee Zeldin’s online ad for re-election. Photo Credit: Gordon M. Grant; Zeldin for Congress via YouTube.   “Zeldin features Estonian … Continue reading →

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“Roundtable” on Gangs and Immigration

Posted on September 18, 2018 by David Posnett

Lee Zeldin and Bob Goodlatte held a “roundtable” on the topic of gangs and immigration at Suffolk County College of Riverhead.  With little notice and no invites to relevant local leaders or concerned citizen’s groups, those that did show up … Continue reading →

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Trump Mouths off About “Windmills”

Posted on September 15, 2018 by David Posnett

Submitted by Judith Hope: In an Aug. 30 rally in Evansville, Indiana, President Donald Trump made three unsubstantiated claims about wind turbines, which he calls “windmills”: Trump suggested that a single turbine can be responsible for “thousands” of bird deaths. … Continue reading →

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Don’t Make Me Laugh

Posted on September 13, 2018 by David Posnett

  By Perry Gershon: Lee Zeldin wants you to think he’s an environmentalist. He’s spending big bucks blasting that absurd idea across Long Island television. Don’t make me laugh. In his four years in Congress, Lee has voted against the … Continue reading →

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New York’s Suffolk County Economy: Not so Hot?

Posted on September 8, 2018 by David Posnett

Representative Lee Zeldin likes to claim that he has contributed to a “booming” economy resulting in jobs in his district (the eastern part of Suffolk county). Lets examine this for a minute. First, jobs This is the graph of unemployment since … Continue reading →

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Dangerous Men

Posted on September 8, 2018 by David Posnett

Bleached Staghorn Coral By James Ewing (Watermill, NY) “The GOP Republican party is the most dangerous organization in human history…dedicated, with such commitment, to the destruction of organized human life on earth.”—Noam Chomsky, scholar, MIT. What are these most dangerous … Continue reading →

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Zeldin’s Environmental Voting Record Goes from Bad to Worse

Posted on August 28, 2018 by David Posnett

Lee Zeldin wants to Drill in the Ironwood Forest National Monument By Marc Rauch: Latest update: Zeldin’s Environmental Voting Record Goes from Bad to Worse in 2018 In the first 3 years of Lee Zeldin’s congressional term (2015-2017), he earned … Continue reading →

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Go National or Local?

Posted on August 27, 2018 by David Posnett

LTE published August 23rd in the East Hampton Star: To the Editor: The East Hampton Star editorial about a “First District Dilemma for Democratic Voters” (July 5, 2018) asks whether one should give money and work for political causes nationally … Continue reading →

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#StopKavanaugh

Posted on August 27, 2018 by David Posnett

Sunday Aug. 26th there were rallies across the country including 2 in NY City: https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=kavanaugh%20protests%20new%20york Cory Booker summarizes this mess eloquently: Donald Trump’s personal lawyer has sworn under oath that Trump directed him to commit federal crimes.1 The Judiciary Committee … Continue reading →

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Zeldin’s War on the Environment

Posted on August 20, 2018 by David Posnett

By Perry Gershon:  (Source: https://www.facebook.com/pg/perry4congress/posts/?ref=page_internal) Lee Zeldin continues to support the Trump Administration’s destruction of our environmental protections. The new “plan” for coal represents one more example of the total disregard for the serious health effects of air pollution. The … Continue reading →

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