Monroe County district attorney Sandra Doorley will reportedly recuse herself from the case involving a man who allegedly tried to stab Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY), New York’s GOP gubernatorial nominee, during a campaign event last week.
And I’m FRI!!ST. Seriously folks this is a non-story unless there’s a bunch of people who actually care about the goings on with insignificant pols and the people who deal them.
Well, looks like simple assault. He wasn’t holding a knife and didn’t appear to be trying to stab the republican.
But since the ‘victim’ is a republican, the guy will probably be charged with felony attempted murder and whatever other bullshit they can dream up.
Justice is blind except when it peeks from under the blindfold, like whenever it wants to.
Now, look into the any relationship between Zeldin and the “stabber.”
It’s sad that I would suspect him of staging this, but Republicans lie about EVERYTHING.
Yeah…“I’ll charge him & then release him without bail & then you go out & bitch about how Hochul’s anti-bail laws are ruining the country.”
It just screams Republican dirty tricks campaign tactics.
They’re making a circus out of it. It’s the Republican way. Meanwhile, they’re dragging a vet (who is possibly an Iraq War vet, the cap he was wearing seems to indicate that) through the dirt, with Zeldin whining about the cashless bail and a hapless drunken vet’s release. Whine whine whine. That’s all they do.
If Zeldin really wanted to be governor of New York then he would of voted to certify the electoral vote after the congress was attacked. He has almost zero chance of being elected Governor of New York State.
And a good thing too. I’d want to blow my brains out if he did.
Yes, we don’t want that.
I’m really liking Hochul. And I like DelGado very much too. I think he has a very bright future ahead of him, have thought so since he was first elected in the 19th.
I wish I could find the article where someone actually talked to the “attacker”. He said he went up to take the microphone so he could say something, telling Zeldin “you’re done” meaning done talking, nothing more. He talked about his PTSD and struggles with addiction.
Found one that covers part of it.
https://kfor.com/news/national/ap-us-news/investigators-attacker-did-not-know-who-zeldin-was/
Erm, the “attack” was very far from a plausible attempt to murder anyone. Evidently he was under some sort of vague misimpression Zeldin was “disrespecting veterans.” Seems like he was just trying to get him to leave the stage, and the “attack” was over once Zeldin grabbed his wrist. I think there’s a very minor assault charge in his future and probation and counseling.
And then there was the little problem with the signatures for a third party. Zeldin sure seems to have bad, um, luck.
Oh, I am so not surprised the so-called tolerant Left has no problems with this 9/11-style attack, so long as it’s on a Republican!
“Worse than Hitler!”
Like the Republican nominee for Governor of NY, a sitting Congressman who’ll have support from all of the western/upstate red counties and both counties on Long Island? George Pataki wasn’t so long ago. This state does elect Republican Governors.
I’m more surprised at this continuing being a story because of just how… bullshit… that ‘attack’ looked.
My guess is that it’ll drop out of the headlines soon, and just be used as a ‘see how brave Lee Zeldin is for standing up to attackers?’ fundraiser, so nobody has to find out the dude was a Zeldin staffer from downstate.
He carried his district by double-digits after being a Trumpist waterboy throughout the Pandemic, in a state that looked like this for POTUS:
It’s an off-year election, with the Democratic ticket still a bit shaded by Cuomo (mind you, I voted for Hochul in the primaries. She’s from Eerie County, so she’s got a better chance of pulling votes upstate than we would if the race was between two Long Island Congressmen).
Don’t downplay his chances. That way lies complacency and defeat.
This isn’t 1994 when NY also had a Republican senator named Al D’Amato. Roe V Wade decision but Zeldin is a big Trump guy. I still feel this race won’t be close.
In the very big picture most pols are insignificant. We have lives and with exceptions we carry on those lives without a thought to politicians of any stripe. They don’t know us, they don’t contribute to the well being of our lives, our families, etc. Something like 20% of Americans are paying no attention at all the 1/6 hearings.
At some point I know that I personally have to tune out. The great state of California provides enough grist for the political mill which I try to keep on top of and it’s often wearing.
That’s exactly my worry. Republican voters are far more likely to just go with a party line vote because of decades of the echo chamber insisting ‘ALL DEMS ARE SATAN!!!’
I’m sure the crowd in D.C. roared when the orange grifter told them he’d rule like a dictator when he wins in 2024, executing drug dealers, firing Federal workers and installing MAGAts who’d be loyal, and sending in the National Guard to “restore order … without having to wait for the approval of some governor that thinks it’s politically incorrect to call them in.” Strange he didn’t think of calling in the National Guard on 1/6.
It’s not that we don’t have to worry about him for 2024 but at this point his voters have soured on him. However, massive voter fraud may prevail and all will be well in his world.