Protest outside of Westchester County Office Building including Yonkers City Councilwoman Corazon Pineda-Isaac
By Dan Murphy
In the Broadway Hit Musical Hamilton, creator Manuel Lin-Miranda writes about the first sex scandal in US History. Then Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamiton got caught in an affair with Maria Reynolds, which caught the attention of Hamilton’s political enemies, James Monroe and Thomas Jefferson. Hamiton admitted to the affair and wrote about it, which became known as the Reynolds Pamphlet.
Lin-Miranda crafted a song in the play titled The Reynolds Pamphlet, in which a gleeful Jefferson proclaims that Hamilton will never become President after news of the affair comes out in newspapers across the eastern united states.
Some New York Democrats are now proclaiming that Congressman Mike Lawler, will never gonna be Governor, after news last week that Lawler challenged the citizenship of Westchester County Legislator Jose Alvarado.
A sound shore democrat sent us the following letter op-ed titled Why Mike Lawler will NEVER be Governor
Note to Mike Lawler:
Go on line for Trulia. And Zillow. Or scour the real estate classifieds in the Washington Post, if they still exist.
Investigate buying a home in the Washington suburbs, preferably in Virginia, because Republicans feel more comfortable there than in solid-blue Maryland.
Check out the quality of pre-K programs; your two daughters will need them before you know it.
Because you will NEVER be moving into that big drafty mansion on Eagle Street in Albany.
It’s no secret that Mike Lawler wants to be Governor, even more than a high school boy wants to lose his virginity.
But while the latter will usually occur eventually, the former will never happen.
Because Lawler’s carefully-crafted appearance of being a bipartisan centrist is easily disproven.
One example was something he did which was baffling, because it was so unnecessary.
When Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene proposed crackpot legislation to change the name of The Gulf of Mexico to The Gulf of America, Lawler was one of only 14 of 218 Republican members to sign on to the bill.
Why, Mike?
It would be one thing if this were a bay or an inlet off the coast of Ireland, Italy, or Israel, and supporting a name change would be an understandable act of gratuitous pandering to an ethnic group with many members in your district.
Besides, Lawler must know that the President and Congress can only change the names of bodies of water wholly within American boundaries.
So it was obviously a stunt to gain points with Donald Trump and his most fervent supporters. A stunt he hoped no one would notice.
Then there is the issue of Dr Margaret Carpenter, who prescribed an abortion medication that was mailed to a patient in Louisiana. The Governor of Louisiana has asked Governor Kathy Hochul to extradite Dr Carpenter to Louisiana for trial, and Govenror Hochul has refused.
Which raises a question: Would Governor Lawler extradite Dr Carpenter to Louisiana?
There is no satisfactory answer. If he says yes, he will forfeit the votes of centrist Democrats and many independents that a Republican needs to win statewide election in New York.
If he says no, he will provoke outrage among conservative Republicans, and either lose the nomination, or see many of these voters stay home in November, assuring a Democratic victory.
And if he gives the typical political answer, that he “will have to closely scrutinize the issue”, he will be branded by both sides as a coward.
Which is why Mike Lawler will never be Governor.
But don’t fret, Mike: Your strong record on supporting Israel will keep you a favorite in Rockland County, and your efforts to hold down taxes and control costs will be beloved in the traditionally conservative parts of the district.
So your Congressional seat is probably assured, even for decades. And you might even be Speaker of the House someday.
But Governor of New York? No way.
Which may turn out to be a blessing.
You’ve been to Albany in January.
Wouldn’t your daughters be happier growing up in Alexandria or Arlington?
