{"id":69873,"date":"2016-06-15T13:59:36","date_gmt":"2016-06-15T17:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=69873"},"modified":"2016-06-15T13:59:36","modified_gmt":"2016-06-15T17:59:36","slug":"opinion-claudia-tenney-wants-an-undeserved-job-promotion-at-your-expense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=69873","title":{"rendered":"OPINION: Claudia Tenney Wants an Undeserved Job Promotion at Your Expense"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"lettertotheeditor_logo\"<\/a>To the Editor:<\/p>\n

As a concerned voter in District 22, it deeply saddens me to see a candidate so focused on\u00a0attacking the values of her colleagues and neighbors. Assemblywoman Claudia Tenney\u00a0continues to stoop ever lower in her attacks on her opponents and the people of District 22.<\/p>\n

Needlessly taking the elderly to court, using veterans, including her own son, to further\u00a0her political career, and taking more than her fair share of days off when she should be present in\u00a0Albany to represent us in the New York State Assembly sum up to the fact that she simply is not\u00a0competent enough to serve in Congress.<\/p>\n

The last time I checked, missing votes was not a conservative principle. Yet Tenney\u00a0missed 480 votes in 2014 alone. Of course Tenney cites extenuating circumstances for each and\u00a0every vote she missed, but all of those excuses do little for the families that are affected by laws put into place by her lack of voting.<\/p>\n

This is reason enough for certain groups to try to expose the terrible record she has, but\u00a0Tenney plays the blame game once again. Claiming that her opponents are illegally coordinating\u00a0with a PAC, a very serious accusation, is her only way to explain why she has so much negative press surrounding her. Unfortunately for Tenney, just because she keeps repeating herself does\u00a0not make this statement true.<\/p>\n

With a history of fighting with a broad swath of people, from minority groups to fellow\u00a0political candidates, voters simply cannot continue to listen when Tenney cries wolf. There is\u00a0enough division in the Republican party after the recent presidential primaries, and New Yorkers can\u2019t afford to have the chasm widened by an emotional candidate who reacts without any\u00a0semblance of stability.<\/p>\n

I can\u2019t remember the last time that Tenney secured a victory for our area in the state\u00a0assembly, but I seem to keep hearing just how conservative she is. We need Upstate New York\u00a0to begin a long-awaited economic recovery, not win the award for name-calling in Washington.<\/p>\n

Tenney has made enemies for all the wrong reasons, rendering her incapable of working\u00a0both with her own party and the other side of the aisle. This is Washington politics as usual.<\/p>\n

True conservatives stick to their principles, and right now it is clear that Tenney is\u00a0pandering for votes. Our district deserves better, and our nation deserves better.<\/p>\n

Logan Weiler,\u00a0Binghamton<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To the Editor: As a concerned voter in District 22, it deeply saddens me to see a candidate so focused on\u00a0attacking the values of her colleagues and neighbors. Assemblywoman Claudia Tenney\u00a0continues to stoop ever lower in her attacks on her opponents and the people of District 22. Needlessly taking the elderly to court, using veterans, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23678,23808,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-letterstotheeditor","category-opinion","category-top-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-iaZ","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/lettertotheeditor_logo.gif?fit=873%2C369&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/69874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}