Hochul Doesn't Get It on Nuclear Threat

The House math is 220 to 215 in favor of the Republicans. The margin is tenuous at best. It will only take three RINOs to throw their sabots into the new Republican cleaning machine.

Complicating matters, President-elect Donald Trump’s appointments skimmed three top conservative Republican members of Congress.

GOP Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis promised to call special elections in hopes voters will replace those reliable conservatives with people that neither Trump nor House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., will have to worry about when the heat is turned up for the mid-terms, or sooner. Regrettably, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, has made no such commitment.

One of those three key congressional seats belongs to the deeply red New York 21st District, home of the most deployed division in the Army, 10th Mountain at Fort Drum. Trump named New York’s 21st District Representative, Congresswoman Elise Stefanik, as the new United States Ambassador to the United Nations. She has accepted and awaits confirmation.

If confirmed, her resignation from Congress could come as early as Trump’s inauguration, January 20 — though some suspect she will maintain her seat long enough to vote on a few key bills before resigning.

Given that Congresswoman Stefanik comfortably defeated her Democratic opponent by nearly 30 points, that seat should easily go to another Republican in a special election.

Therein lies the rub. Will New York’s activist Democratic Gov. Hochul take a play from her devious predecessor, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, ignoring the law that requires a special election be called within 10 days of a congressional vacancy?

Based on Hochul’s conspicuous silence on the issue coupled with her willingness to disdain and trample the rights of anyone who might disagree with her secular fundamentalistic ideology, it seems likely she will attempt to rob the nearly 800,000 citizens of New York’s 21st of representation in federal government for the benefit of the Democratic Party.

In 2015, when then-New York Gov. Cuomo refused to call a special election for New York’s 11th Congressional District, he was sued in Federal Court.

The U.S. District Court Judge sided with plaintiffs saying, “The right to representation in government is the central pillar of democracy in this country. Unjustified delay in filling this vacancy cannot be countenanced.”

The judge issued an ultimatum for Cuomo to announce the election or the court would do it for him.

Does this mean the case is closed before it starts — Hochul by law must call a special election? Not exactly. While it is unjust for Hochul to leave the conservative people of the North Country unrepresented and, according to the jurisprudence, failure to announce the special election is a violation of the U.S. Constitution and the rights of the people to representation, she may try to circumvent these “inconveniences.”

Enter New York Attorney General Letitia James.

Mending her tenuous relationship with AG James, Hochul launched a task force with the AG’s department to enforce an unprecedented New York Constitutional Amendment — ballot Proposal No. 1 — designed to enshrine sex change, abortion, and potentially voting rights for undocumented immigrants at the expense of parents, small businesses, pro-life Christians, and churches.

While the proposal was set to pass with a clean 80/20 split, conservative voices convinced even Harris voters to vote no to the insanity — passing with a less than glamorous 60/40 split. Nothing mends a political union like a shared enemy — many of whom live in New York’s 21st District.

With the assistance of James, if a favorable judge is found — such as the judge who ridiculously found Trump guilty of over 30 felonies — Hochul may be able to “stick it” to the North Country, the GOP, and the Trump administration by elongating the timeframe for the reduced House Majority.

Here’s why you, dear reader, in Orlando, Grand Rapids, Atlanta, or Lake Placid should pay close attention to Hochul’s antics. Is it a coincidence that Hochul (allegedly) allowed a communist Chinese spy to climb to the highest levels of her administration? Is it any coincidence that our communist enemies and the Biden administration have been playing fast-and-loose with global conflicts?

Unnerving as it may be, leaving the home of Fort Drum unrepresented with the threat of nuclear war bandied about by international foes, Hochul’s refusal to call the election could hold national security hostage to Democratic political extremism. The northeastern United States needs a congressman advocating for the development of a missile defense system at Fort Drum to mitigate foreign threats.

Will Hochul throw Fort Drum, the people of New York’s 21st Congressional District, the Constitution of the United States, and the security of the nation under the bus of her Democratic ideology? If past performance is a predictor of future behavior, we should brace ourselves for a battle.

The Rev. Jim Harden is CEO of CompassCare, an anti-abortion medical network based in Buffalo, New York. He is married with 10 children. Recently his medical center was firebombed by anti-abortion activists. Read more of his reports — Here.