Lee Zeldin Is So Tough On Crime, He Didn't Bother To Vote On Crime Bills

By Susie Madrak — November 1, 2022

As NY GOP gubernatorial candidate Lee Zeldin is promising to swiftly restore law and order in New York, he's neglecting to actually, um, do anything about it. Because Trumpers, amirite? Via the Daily Beast:

“I want to do everything I possibly can in the first 100 minutes,” Zeldin has said. “I want to have a very active first day.”

But on a single day last month, Zeldin did not even vote on three important crime bills that came before the House of Representatives.

“NOT VOTING,” the Clerk of the U.S. The House of Representatives noted next to Zeldin’s name in the official roll call for each bill on Sept. 22.

Zeldin’s campaign and his congressional office did not respond to numerous inquiries about why he did not vote, whether he was on the House floor, or what he was doing instead.

You know what he was doing that day? Twitter.

The NYC subway is turning into Fight Club, but the victims are innocent NYers who want to get from point A to point B quickly and safely. Ironically enough, NY Dems have applied the number 1 rule of Fight Club to their failure to keep law-abiding NYers safe: Don't talk about it! https://t.co/mDJeKenpjt

— Lee Zeldin (@RepLeeZeldin) September 22, 2022

There should be no beating around the bush here. The Biden Admin needs to tackle head on the border crisis they created. For starters, finish the border wall, end catch and release, enforce Remain in Mexico, support CBP agents, and stop incentivizing and rewarding illegal entry. https://t.co/PZQagRoAIm

— Lee Zeldin (@RepLeeZeldin) September 22, 2022

Just held a press conference calling out @KathyHochul for her cowardly attempt to participate in just ONE debate at the end of October on cable that millions of NYers can’t access on their TVs. We must have multiple debates in multiple media markets across New York. pic.twitter.com/sYMs6dvRcp

— Lee Zeldin (@leezeldin) September 22, 2022

With absentee ballots starting to be mailed out tomorrow, debates should start immediately. I have already accepted two debates, from CBS2 New York and PIX11.

It’s time for Hochul to come out of hiding and face the music for her horrible, far-left, pro-crime, corrupt record.

— Lee Zeldin (@leezeldin) September 22, 2022

Val Demings wrote one of those three bills:

The bill in question was H.R. 5768, the Violent Incident Clearance and Technological Investigative Methods (VICTIM) Act of 2022. It seeks in part to make police departments better able to investigate unsolved gun homicides and non-fatal shootings—such as the one earlier this month that left two teens wounded outside Zeldin’s Long Island house while his twin 16-year-old daughters were alone at home doing their schoolwork.

The VICTIM Act was sponsored by Rep. Val Demings (D-FL), who served with the Orlando Police Department for 27 years, working her way up from patrol officer to chief before she retired to run for Congress. She began the debate by speaking on behalf of the measure with the authority of experience.

“Mr. Speaker, real life is quite different from television or political buffoonery. Half of gun murders in the United States go unsolved. Victims are too often left with no justice and their families with little support.”

This particular political buffoon, who's an election denier and Jan. 6th apologist, looks like he might win, unless Democrats get their vote out and expand Gov. Kathy Hochul's slim lead. And it's understood that he's backed by Trump because Trump really, really needs a governor who will pardon him for state crimes.

Isn't that nice.