Jacobs blasts GOP for same issues Democrats face

                                                                                   

Jay Jacobs (from News12 Long Island)

Pot, meet kettle.

State and Nassau Democratic Chairman Jay Jacobs today in emails to supporters and on Facebook demanded state Republicans answer five questions as the GOP convention begins in Garden City.

Oddly, Republicans could throw some of the same basic questions back to the Democrats.

For example, Jacobs wants to know if Republicans will recognize Joe Biden "as the duly elected President."

Republicans could ask when leading Democrats will recognize that Donald Trump was the "duly elected president" in 2016.

Democrats last week hosted Hillary Clinton as their keynote speaker at their party's state convention. Clinton is a former First Lady, New York State senator and U.S. Secretary of State who ran against Trump in 2016.

Since she lost, Clinton has declared Trump "an illegitimate president."

Jacobs also wants to know when Republicans will declare Jan. 6 "an insurrection" and "an assault against our democracy."

Jacobs' question comes after Russians invaded the Ukraine.

Now that is an assault against democracy.

Here is one of the unarmed yahoos who assaulted the Capitol on Jan. 6.

                                                                           

Source: Zerohedge.com

  Compare him to an alleged Russian invader of the Ukraine:

                                                                                  

Source: Reuters  
 

And talking about the Russian invasion, news reports say that members of the Ukrainian parliament picked up weapons to defend their country when invaders threatened.

When the riot occurred at the Capitol, members of Congress hid under their desks and donned plastic bag facemasks to protect them from tear gas -- an irritant often encountered by anti-war protestors in the past who were not known to put plastic bags over their heads as protection.

                                                                          


                                                                                   
Both photos from Jan. 6   





  

After Jan. 6, Democratic U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who was not in the Capitol building, says she was so traumatized that she suffers from PTSD. Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger cried when hearing about the riot from Capitol police.

Jacobs also wants to know when Republicans in New York, which has some of the strictest gun control laws in the nation, will agree with "common sense gun safety laws." 
 
As many news reports point out, young and old, male and female Ukrainians are toting guns to protect their country from an invading enemy. You might even call them a "militia, being necessary to the security of a free state" as defined by the Second Amendment in the  U.S. Bill of Rights.
 
Jacobs also complains that the Republican primary for governor  "is getting more chaotic."
 
As though the Democratic primary for governor isn't.
 
Right now, Gov. Kathy Hochul, U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi and New York City public advocate Jumaane Williams are declared candidates. Who knows who else may begin circulating nomination petitions at the start of the petition period tomorrow.
 
Besides chaotic, Jacobs said the Republican race "shows no signs of providing solutions to help the middle class."
 
Hmmm. Under Democrat President Biden, Democrat Gov. Hochul and the Democrat-controlled New York state senate and state assembly, more than nine out of ten New Yorkers told the Siena College Research Institute pollsters last week that inflation is having a very serious or somewhat serious effect on the economy; 78 percent say they are feeling it in their own personal finances.  
 
Jacobs also poses other questions, but read them for yourself.
 
Here is his email:  

 
 
From: Chairman, Jay S. Jacobs <chair@nassaucountydems.com>
Sent: Monday, February 28, 2022 9:01 AM

Subject: FIVE QUESTIONS REPUBLICANS NEED TO ANSWER AHEAD OF THE NEW YORK STATE GOP CONVENTION
 

FIVE QUESTIONS REPUBLICANS NEED TO ANSWER AHEAD OF
THE NEW YORK STATE GOP CONVENTION 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE


FIVE QUESTIONS REPUBLICANS NEED TO ANSWER AHEAD OF THE NEW YORK STATE GOP CONVENTION 

New York, February 28, 2022 - With the New York State GOP Convention commencing today, New Yorkers can expect Republicans to tout the far-right’s greatest hits and fringe conspiracy theories that have done nothing to move New York forward. In 2022, Republicans are still trying to win votes with the same repackaged version of Trumpism that incites the division New Yorkers have consistently rejected. 


Ahead of today’s convention, the Republican Party of New York needs to answer the following questions for voters: 
 
  1. Will they recognize Joe Biden as the duly elected president and condemn the January 6th insurrection as an assault against our democracy?
     
  2.  Will they commit to protecting reproductive rights in lieu of dangerous legislation passed by Republican held legislatures in Texas and Florida? 
     
  3. Do New York Republicans agree with common sense gun safety laws such as federal legislation mandating background checks and mental health screenings which, according to experts, would create safer communities?
     
  4. Do Republicans plan to resume their efforts to gut health care and strip away coverage from millions of New York’s most vulnerable? 
     
  5. Will New York Republicans condemn Donald Trump’s praise of Vladimir Putin and the 2016 RNC platform that omitted the tenet which supported supplying arms to Ukraine in order to deter Russia aggression? 

The New York GOP primary is getting more chaotic and shows no signs of providing solutions to help the middle class. Regardless of which candidate passes the Trump litmus test and emerges as the Republican nominee, it’s clear they’ll be carrying the banner for an agenda that does nothing to help working families and the middle class.
 

 





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