Letter to the Editor:
Cait Conley is running ads promising to end corruption in Washington. Before lecturing anyone on transparency, she might want to look at her own paperwork.
Every House candidate must file a financial disclosure showing who pays them. Ms. Conley’s was due May 15. Her campaign requested a 90-day extension that would have pushed the filing to August 13, seven weeks after the June 23 Democratic primary. She filed on May 19, the same day reporters started asking about the delay. The report showed $328,283 since January 2025 from two AI and drone surveillance contractors, Hidden Level and Primer.
When voters asked what she did to earn that money, her answer, in her own words, was “I literally signed NDAs.”
Confidentiality agreements are common in private business. A candidate for Congress is asking for something no private client ever gets: a vote on the laws that fund and regulate the companies paying her. Primer’s website says its AI platforms support Homeland Security missions. Hidden Level supplies data to the Pentagon through Palantir. Both live and die by decisions Congress makes.
Ms. Conley has called the questions about her work lies. The quickest way to prove that would be to describe her own work in plain terms and let voters judge it. She has had seven months to do that and has chosen not to.
Hudson Valley voters forgive a lot. Being asked for our trust by someone who will not tell us what she was paid to do is harder to forgive.
Louis Torrieri, Pleasantville