Elise Stefanik Tag

Harvard Institute of Politics Removes Rep. Elise Stefanik From Advisory Board for Questioning 2020 Election

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 13, 2021 1 Comment

"She has made public statements about court actions related to the election that are incorrect"...

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Wuhan Virus Watch: Rep. Elise Stefanik wants probe into Cuomo’s nursing home policy

Posted by Leslie Eastman on May 17, 2020 25 Comments

Today's update starts with the news that New York Congresswoman Elise Stefanik, who bravely challenged Schiff's impeachment maneuvers with skillful cross-examination earlier this year, is now demanding a federal probe of Gov. Cuomo’s handling of COVID-19 in nursing homes.

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NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo orders National Guard to seize ventilators from upstate hospitals (#UpstateLivesMatter)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 04, 2020 95 Comments

If you don't live in upstate NY, you may not realize how horrible a Governor Andrew Cuomo is. Upstate, a huge region north and west of New York City, is Republican territory, and has been in revolt against Cuomo's outrageous gun control SAFE Act for years. Almost every upstate county has, in an ultimately futile but symbolic act, rejected the SAFE Act.

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Howard Dean to Elise Stefanik About Abusive Note Left On Her Car: “as ye sow, so shall ye reap”

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on March 08, 2020 34 Comments

Rep. Elise Sefanik (R-NY) shot to stardom during the sham Democrat impeachment hearings in the House. She methodically skewered the Democrats' impeachment case and revealed it to be built on a foundation of sand.

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Elise Stefanik Raises $500k in Under Two Hours: NeverTrumper George Conway Hardest Hit

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on November 23, 2019 18 Comments

Last weekend, Kellyanne Conway's NeverTrump husband smeared Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) by calling her "lying trash" and sharing in since-deleted tweets a clearly photo-shopped image of her.

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Elise Stefanik skewers Dems impeachment case with classic cross-examination techniques

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 19, 2019 38 Comments

Elise Stefanik has been the target of a smear campaign led by George Conway, among others, because she has been so effective. She cross-examines witnesses the way cross-examination should be done: A tightly controlled examination that does not allow the witness to vary from prior testimony or to deny the obvious.

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Compare and Contrast: Media Cheered Elizabeth Warren’s “Persisting” but Scolded Elise Stefanik’s

Posted by Stacey Matthews on November 17, 2019 13 Comments

What a difference two years makes.  Back in 2017, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) was on the floor of the U.S. Senate reading a 1986 letter from Coretta Scott King opposing the nomination of Jeff Sessions to a federal judgeship. It was one of Warren's contributions to the debate in the Senate over President Trump's nomination of Sen. Sessions for attorney general.

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Kellyanne Conway’s NeverTrump Husband Retweets Clear Photoshop of Elise Stefanik

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on November 17, 2019 28 Comments

Kellyanne Conway's NeverTrump husband lit up the internet on Saturday with his disgusting smear of Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY).  Not content to call her "lying trash," Conway was also instrumental in spreading a fake photo of the respected congresswoman depicting her "flipping the bird" to reporters.

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Elise Stefanik to George Conway: “the one thing I’ve NEVER been called in my life is TRASH. You need serious help.”

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on November 16, 2019 22 Comments

On Saturday morning, Kellyanne Conway's NeverTrump husband tweeted that Rep. Elisa Stefanik (R-NY) is "lying trash."  The comment was in reaction to her stellar performance during the entirely partisan Democrat impeachment circus.

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Kellyanne Conway’s NeverTrump husband calls Elise Stefanik “lying trash” (Updates)

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on November 16, 2019 45 Comments

Yesterday, Professor Jacobson posted that Elise Stefanik’s Stardom is Born during the Democrats' impeachment hearing, and indeed it was. We know this, in part, because the left and its NeverTrump hangers on are going absolutely insane over Stefanik and the damage she did to the partisan impeachment circus the Democrats are conducting.

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Elise Stefanik’s Stardom is Born

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 15, 2019 26 Comments

Elise Stefanik is from New York's 21st District. We're not talking Manhattan here, it's the north country, covering the Adirondack Mountains from the Vermont border to the east and the Canadian border to the north and west.

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Jordan, Stefanik Challenge Schiff at the Beginning of Impeachment Hearing

Posted by Mary Chastain on November 15, 2019 44 Comments

Reps. Jim Jordan and Elise Stefanik quickly challenged House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff after Ranking Member Devin Nunes finished his opening remarks:

Stefanik: The point of order is, will the chairman continue to prohibit witnesses from answering Republican questions as you’ve done in closed hearings and as you did this week —

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Records Indicate More Republican Women Than Ever Plan to Run for Office

Posted by Mary Chastain on August 26, 2019 29 Comments

Patti Russo, the woman in charge of the prestigious Women's Campaign School at Yale University, told NBC News that the majority of calls she has received in the last year came from Republic women. Russo explained the school collected "triple the number of applications from Republicans" because these women are "tired of being quiet, and they know they have a lot to give."

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Congressional Dems in Disarray on Trump National Emergency Declaration and Green New Deal

Posted by Mary Chastain on March 26, 2019 33 Comments

Democrats on Capital Hill faced two major defeats on Tuesday. House Democrats couldn't pull in enough votes to override President Donald Trump's national emergency. The Senate Democrats threw a hissy fit by voting present instead of yes on the Green New Deal to protest the fact that Republicans brought the bill to the floor.

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Rep. Elise Stefanik Wants to Help the GOP Tackle Its ‘Gender Crisis’

Posted by Mary Chastain on January 22, 2019 25 Comments

Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) witnessed the GOP take a hit in the 2018 midterms in the House where the number of GOP women was reduced from 23 to 13. Stefanik wants to change that through her leadership political action committee called E-PAC.

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How Red is #NY27? Indicted Republican incumbent Chris Collins just declared victory

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 20, 2018 7 Comments

New York's 27th congressional district, in the far western part of the state, is red. How red? R+11.

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103 Republican Women Are Running For Congress This Election Cycle

Posted by Mary Chastain on June 04, 2018 10 Comments

The Democrat Party loves to tout itself as the party for women and scrutinize the GOP for its supposed lack of women lawmakers. But not anymore. 103 Republican women candidates are running for House seats in the 2018 midterms compared to the "48 in the previous election cycle."

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Thirty-four Congressional Republicans Push DACA Amnesty By Year’s End

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on December 11, 2017 22 Comments

We've been covering the on-going DACA saga here at LI; President Trump tossed Obama's unconstitutional Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) back to Congress, initially giving them six months to get a bill to his desk that would enshrine some version of DACA into law. The president later announced that he would grant Congress an extension if they weren't able to get their act together within the original time frame.  Trump, in other words, will gladly sign a DACA bill should one make its way to his desk.

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