NYS Republican gubernatorial candidate Lee Zeldin has made surging crime his high precedence.
Robert Miller
The New York Occasions simply hates that the information retains proving Rep. Lee Zeldin proper to deal with the state’s crime disaster — so it bashes him for highlighting it.
“Zeldin Seizes on Security After Taking pictures at Residence,” reads Wednesday’s snarky print-edition headline atop the paper’s newest Zeldin hit job. Observe the wording: He “seizes” (a favourite media slur of Republicans) on the difficulty, as if he in some way acted immorally for being outraged by a capturing that happened proper exterior his dwelling whereas his daughters had been inside doing homework.
The paper rips him for “rapidly” assembling a information convention, doing a Fox Information interview and utilizing “an look on the Columbus Day Parade to imbue his political messaging with a brand new private, if scary, outlook.”
Gee, what gall.
By no means thoughts that this was the second time violence has personally affected the Zeldins simply this yr: In July, a man bodily attacked Zeldin with a sharp weapon and needed to be wrestled to the bottom. The Occasions then disgustingly prompt, with zero proof, that the attacker had been freed on no bail as a part of a conspiracy to spice up Zeldin’s drive to repair state bail legal guidelines.
By no means thoughts, too, that violence occurs to be Zeldin’s high precedence and the assaults present vividly why he’s chosen to deal with it, so it’d be political malpractice not to spotlight them.
In fact, the Occasions resorted to no such snark — no “Hochul seizes” — when Gov. Kathy Hochul used a Might mass capturing in her hometown, Buffalo, to fundraise.
Zeldin is useless proper to make crime a high difficulty. And that it’s affected him so personally does illustrate how out-of-control Hochul and her fellow Democrats have let violence spiral.
Voters must be grateful somebody’s “seizing on security,” regardless of how inconvenient for his opponent. If solely she and the Occasions would “seize” on it, too.
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