Friday, November 07, 2025

A Stefanik In Every Pot!

Hate ages you. The 41 year old New York Republican Elise Stefanik wants the governor seat in Albany.

So instead of being the top Republican recruiter for House members, Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) decides to take a risky gamble to run for governor. In better times, had Stefanik returned to the rational Republican moderate she used to be, I would give her a strong shot of upsetting Kathy Hochul.

But I see it as competitive but likely Democrat. New York has not put a Republican in the governor seat since George Pataki. New York hasn't voted for a Republican president since George H.W. Bush. However President Donald J. Trump did pull in 41% of the vote in the 2024 presidential election. It was one of the strongest showings for a continuously failed president.

Gov. Hochul is a two term New York governor who came in after disgraced ex-governor Andrew Cuomo resigned from a sex scandal. Hochul is deeply unpopular due to her stances on Israel, the support for the elites on Wall Street, her refusal to embrace change to the status quo and being a career politician.

Hochul has a primary challenger.

Lieutenant Governor Antonio Delgado is challenging her.

Stefanik is a career politician who talks from boths sides. Her mouth and her ass. She is ineffective and just downright annoying. She looks a spoiled brat. She looks like Woody Woodpecker's foil Miss Meany. 

A spoiled brat who tattle tales on the group when she doesn't get her way.

On friendly networks, Fox, the controversial lawmaker is challenging Hochul and is guns ablazing on New York assemblyman Zohran Mandani, the New York City mayor-elect.

Stefanik's 2½-minute launch video focuses largely on affordability. And while she is a staunch ally of the president, her campaign video does not make any references to the president.

"There's no question: New York is facing an affordability crisis," a narrator says in Stefanik's launch video, which also features commentators calling Hochul the "worst governor in America."

If Kathy Hochul is the worst governor in New York, the I guess Elise Stefanik the worst U.S. Representative in New York?

She is a fucking U.S. lawmaker who can write bills that could make things affordable.

She and Republicans could raise the minimum wage to cost of living standards. Yet, she protects the billionaires, the elite and a sexual predator who is the current President of the United States.

People are going to remember how she is a big government nanny. She was at the forefront of deporting foreign students who participated in the pro Palestinian protests.

She was doing all that theater at prestigious college presidents about antisemitism. She was yelling about how Jewish students are not safe. What about the rest of us?

Gun violence. It killed white nationalist Charlie Kirk.

Sexual assault on college campuses is a real issue.

But let's focus on a few Zionists who are angry over professors and students using their freedom speech to protest a fucking genocide.

She dog whistles the great replacement theory when she wants to attack immigrants and women of color.

She also runs off to Israel to watch the regime kill Palestinians.

Miss Meany for governor.

The video also ties Hochul to Mamdani, a self-described democratic socialist who just had a decisive win earlier this week to become the next mayor of New York City. Hochul endorsed Mamdani in the race and appeared with him on the campaign trail.

"Kathy Hochul made New York the most unaffordable state in the nation, crushing families with sky-high taxes, unaffordable rent, soaring energy costs and record-high grocery bills, and cozied up to an anti-police, tax-hiking, antisemitic communist," a narrator says in the video. The launch video also features clips of Mamdani supporters chanting "tax the rich" as Hochul addressed a recent rally.

"With everything on the line, we need someone who will deliver results and make New York affordable and safe for families and small businesses," a narrator says in the video. "Elise Stefanik will clean up Kathy Hochul's catastrophe and restore New York's greatness."

Stefanik is the first high-profile Republican to launch a campaign and she's been weighing a run for governor for months. She said back in April that she would announce her decision after the 2025 elections, following GOP Rep. Mike Lawler's announcement that he would not run for governor. Trump helped convince Lawler, who represents a competitive district, to stay put in the House, effectively clearing the primary field for Stefanik.

Stefanik had been nominated to be Trump’s ambassador to the United Nations, but Trump withdrew her nomination amid concerns that a competitive special election to replace her in Congress could further shrink the narrow GOP majority.

First elected to Congress in 2014, then the youngest woman elected to the House, Stefanik has risen through the ranks of the GOP leadership, serving as conference chairwoman in the last Congress. She built a national profile as a vocal defender of Trump during his first impeachment in 2019 and has become a prolific fundraiser.

Still, Stefanik will face an uphill battle in the traditionally Democratic state. Trump made significant gains in New York in 2024, improving on his 2020 election margin by 11 points, the largest swing toward Trump of any state in the country. But he still lost New York by 13 points last year.

Hochul is running for her second full term after succeeding Andrew Cuomo in 2021 following his resignation amid sexual harassment allegations, which he has denied. Hochul won her first full term by about 6 points in 2022, defeating two primary challengers in the process.

Back when Stefanik was a rational Republican, folks saw her as a rising star. She hinted running for Senate but like all dreams, the big Republican donors told her to stay in her lane.

Stefanik would have left to be the United Nations Ambassador. Trump pulled her nomination because of some issue that they refuse to discuss.

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