Editor:

In response to Carol Nochajski and Cindy Fleischer. Being a Democrat, a liberal or a progressive is an actual mental disorder. It causes much destruction socially, economically, mentally and politically.

I am not a fan of many of the socialist norms such as subsidies and many government programs and until politicians man up (I said MAN) and do away with them, they are part of the landscape.

I am however opposed to Venezuela and Cuban-type socialism that your party will impose on this country if by chance they win this election. It’s not my fault that you see everything backwards and have not looked into your awful candidate Nate McMurry.

After all, in his words, he is an admirer of Bernie Sanders but his politics are more in line with Elizabeth Warren, you know the woman that lied for years about her Native American genes. Used it to advance her career and says if she was elected president she would end all commercial electricity and much more crazy things such as reparations and open borders.

I also have no fear of the coronavirus. I am strong, I am healthy (and quite handsome for an old brute) and I still work as hard as I did when I was 20 years old. The coronavirus fears me and the tiger blood that flows through my veins.

Oh and by the way no one has done a better job on the coronavirus that our president and if you think differently than you must think ill of the leaders of other countries that are spiking around the world. Such denial on the left and devoid of reality.

No Carol and Cindy I do not want to work with the left. I want to defeat them and their sickness and rid them from the public offices, board rooms and school systems and have normal commonsense people living in reality. I ask you this, would they compromise with me or other normal thinking people?

I want sensible environmental conservation not the radical, hysterical buffoonery that comes from the left. Democrat and RINO Republican regulations moved jobs off shores. Mostly Democrats.

The president has brought them back. You can deny this but it’s true. It’s as true as Obama-Biden built the cages for children at the border. You won’t acknowledged the horrible thing Nate said about Caputo.

Hey it would not be so bad but he tries to portray himself as a nice guy above that kind of thing. No it is you and Carol that will need to seek therapy or a healthy outlet after November 3rd when your candidate loses, Pelosi is sent packing, Mitch will be in charge of putting more conservative judges in the courts and 45 becomes 46 for 4 more years.

Now that’s confidence.

Paul Lauricella

Yates

Chairman of the Orleans County Conservative Party

Editor:

With tomorrow being Election Day I feel I have raised some very good points as to why I’m making this push for write-in candidate for the Town of Shelby Councilman.

There are times I ask myself, why didn’t I question this whole process back in June rather than turn my cheek and say to myself “that’s just politics.” But the more that family and friends came to me after knowing the facts, I decided to make a push for a write-in campaign.

Over this past week with the help of others we have reached out to residents of the town via social media, phone calls, word of mouth and the Pennysaver. I made my signs out of scrap wood I had kicking around in the barn and began getting them out. Overall I think the feedback has been very positive but we still need everyone to continue to pass along the message to please write in Crag Stalker for Shelby Town Councilman.

I feel I have a lot of the same characteristics, values and goals that my father Dale Stalker had when he was councilman. I myself was born and raised in Shelby for 34 1/2 out of 36 years. There were 1 1/2 years my family and I lived in Lyndonville but shortly returned back to Shelby.

I’ve been a registered Republican since I was able to vote (18 years) and have always had the same beliefs, visions and common goals as my fellow local Republicans. I feel I know a lot of the residents in our town and what direction we would like to keep going.

Within the past 15 years Shelby has really taken off as far as the Industrial Park, businesses, and even a hotel if we can get that going and finished up. The direction we are heading and what we have to offer is grabbing the attention of businesses like Amazon, so we need to continue on the path of success and not start to revert backwards.

When it comes to businesses wanting to move into our area, I myself would like to ask the following questions:

How is this going to benefit our tax payers? Is the investment worth the money the town will earn from having this business? How will this affect the residents everyday life, travel, daily outdoor activities, and or wildlife? Due to the increase traffic are they going to help the town build up the road/roads? What kind of tax breaks are they looking for? Will this benefit all taxpayers or just a small portion? How long will the town benefit? How many jobs will this create?

I would like to point out what the majority of residents in Shelby already know, that this area is predominantly Republican and has been for some time. Mr. Wilkins was a registered Democrat from 2005 to March 2020 when he changed to non-affiliated up until he was officially changed to Republican on 6/30/2020, so almost 15 years. So from March 2020 to June 8, 2020 when he submitted to become a Republican (as per the board of elections) Mr. Wilkins for 3 months was unsure of what party he wanted to join? With that being said how do we know what Mr. Wilkins views and beliefs really are, being he is unsure himself.

So when you go to the polls always just be mindful and really think about who your voting for because it might not always be the best option listed under your party line.

Thank you,

Craig Stalker

Write-in candidate for Shelby Town Councilman

Editor:

If you are looking for evidence of a huge political divide in this country, you need look no further than a recent letter to the Hub, by someone who is identified as a local political party leader.

I have written many letters to many editors, but I have never personally attacked people for their political affiliations. Nor have I attributed their actions to some hidden purpose or secret agenda that only I seem to know about.

Disagree with a policy or candidate that I support?  Have at it; offer facts and suggest alternatives. But attacking people personally cheapens the meaning of political debate and reduces it to name-calling and worse.

Before you know it you get people stealing lawn signs, making threats, breaking windows, running campaign buses off the road, and showing up at rallies and polling places armed. I think, I hope, that most of us are so much better than that.

Have a problem with someone? “Ann Landers”, “Hints from Heloise” and “Ask Amy” of newspaper advice fame nearly always make this point: Go talk to the person who is somehow bothering you. They never advise smearing people publicly.

I will also add that the party organization that I belong to in Orleans County does not sit around and think of ways to attack and destroy people personally.  When I affiliate myself with any group I make sure that decency, kindness and generosity are its core values. I would steer way clear of an organization, party or otherwise, that undermines those values.

Sincerely,

James Renfrew

Clarendon

Editor:

A Town of Shelby Councilman position opened in the summer after Councilman Jeff Smith was appointed to take over after Ed Houseknecht resigned the Town Supervisor’s position.

When the position on the board came up, I filled out the application and did several in-person interviews and several phone interviews. The position was put to a vote and it was awarded to me. I was sworn in as a councilman at the August board meeting and I have been serving the town faithfully since.

As part of being appointed to the position I knew that I would have to run and win the election in November to serve out the last three years of the term.

I am not a politician. I have never been in office, my Uncle Don (Kennedy) was on the Village of Medina Board and briefly served as Mayor of Medina. I do not have political alias, nor do I have anyone trying to do favors for me to get me into office.

I do not owe anyone anything and no one owes me anything. I have tried to be a person that looks at the situation and makes sound rational decisions. I just want to do what is best for the Town of Shelby and since I was appointed to the board in August, I believe I have.

I will not engage in mudslinging, politics as usual, backdoor politics, public gamesmanship, or any of the drama that surrounds elections. That is not who I am. Anyone that knows me, knows that I will tell it how it is. I am a straight shooter. If you want to know where I stand on an issue just ask, I will tell you. If I win this election, I will win it because I am the better man to represent the Town of Shelby.

I would like to thank Pat Eick and Skip Draper, of the Shelby Republican Committee, for your endorsement and for having the confidence in me to continue to represent the Town of Shelby.  I would also like to thank Town of Shelby Superintendent Jeff Smith, Highway Superintendent Dale Root, Board member William Bacon and Board member Steven Seitz for your support, help and guidance since being appointed.  I hope to continue to work with everyone.

Good luck to everyone and make sure to get out and vote.

Respectfully submitted,

Ryan Wilkins

Republican-endorsed candidate for Shelby Town Councilman

Editor:

As the educational leaders of the five school districts in Orleans County, we implore local and state legislators to continue their efforts to bring reliable, accessible high speed broadband internet to our communities. This is no longer a want but a need for our families.

Since March we witnessed first-hand and heard countless stories of families struggling with remote learning due to poor, unstable, or inaccessible high speed internet. This was not a new concern in our communities, but one that become more pronounced during the pandemic.

As districts, we responded by opening our school Wi-Fi, partnering with local libraries, purchasing mobile hot spot devices, and even placing vans with hotspots in key locations in our communities. While these strategies attempted to fill the gap, there is simply no substitute for reliable high speed internet access in homes and residences. Equity in educational opportunities is also critical. Case in point: paper packets pales in comparison to virtual zoom meetings.

While schools are not internet providers, we want to ensure access to families. In today’s digital age, having high-speed internet access should be considered a necessary utility, just like electricity, gas, and water. However, schools do not have the infrastructure, utility capabilities, nor a budget, that can support providing mobile devices or internet to all families.  Furthermore, a mobile device such as a hot spot is not high speed internet nor is it reliable internet access.

The five of us can personally share stories of how our families have been affected by this problem. Just last week, Lyndonville third graders had to suddenly transition to remote learning, and several families immediately voiced concern with their lack of reliable internet.

This problem is real and it is having an impact on our students’ education; similarly, as is the lack of reliable, high-speed internet impacts the growth of businesses in our county.

We thank you for your advocacy thus far, and we ask that you continue with efforts to make high-speed reliable internet a reality for ALL citizens and families in Orleans County. We owe it to our current students, future students and our communities!

Thank you.

Brian Bartalo, Holley Superintendent of Schools

Scott Bischoping, Albion Interim Superintendent of Schools

Julie Christensen, Kendall Superintendent of Schools

Mark Kruzynski, Medina Superintendent of Schools

Jason Smith, Lyndonville Superintendent of Schools

Editor:

This election week, thank you to the writers of the United States Constitution, seeking to “secure the blessings of liberty” for us, seeking to “form a more perfect union” and seeking to “promote the general welfare.”

Due to their effort, we have a system of governance designed to evolve as we try to be more perfect, as we try to be more caring, as we work to count our blessings (and votes) in challenging circumstances.

Thanks to the foresight of those writers (and much strife) women are now voting. Thanks to their foresight, we have developed a system of secret ballots for citizens, and there is no need to declare publicly our candidate of choice. Every vote counts.

Among leaders, though, we need organization among those with ideas. We need capability to come together openly and peaceably. We have a process for political parties to be recognized by the state.

From many ideas come a few good ones. For a county neighbor to declare in print that “a politician that loves this country would never ever belong to the Democrat Party” and to make assumptions about someone who has served her community in democratic leadership for 50 years is divisive in a time when we need to be unifying.

Not only the highest office in the land is at stake this week. Among those still to fill in ballots, please consider the values of your congressional candidate choices. My suggestion, Nate McMurray, who traveled to Orleans County, smallest population in the district, to meet even more of his future, multi-partisan constituents with only 6 days of voting left.

Nate McMurray, a candidate promoting dignity, decency, kindness, science, and most of all, a candidate deliberately seeking to serve and find common ground among all in his constituency, regardless of political affiliation.

Beth Wood

Barre

Editor:

In response to Paul Lauricella, Orleans County Conservative Party Chairman, I hope your hateful rant helped you feel better. Beware, stress is a strain on the body, contributes to high blood pressure, heart disease, obesity, diabetes and mental disorders like depression, anxiety and personality disorders. Find a healthy outlet.

You like the USPS, a socialistic system because it benefits your business. Hate-fueled misinformation is ruining the Republican Party, which united to block Obama from making more progress.

If you love our country, as you say, you will want parties to work together to provide benefits for everyone, like the USPS and the billions of socialistic aid for farmers. If you love our country you would want our environment protected for the benefit of everyone and future generations. If you love our country you will put country over party.

Big business moved jobs offshore, not Democrats. To expand and sell in the very large Chinese market, China required building products there, and so big business conformed. It’s “fake news” to say that the Democrats are behind it.

With Michael Caputo’s cancer, he is being treated, with great public healthcare. Americans do not want to be denied the basic right to healthcare in a pandemic or when they lose a job.

The Me-Me thinking hurts everyone. The coronavirus teaches us that it does not discriminate. We must work together to reduce the risk so citizens and businesses can survive and thrive again. We’re all in this together. No one has the corner on love for our country.

Me-Me attitude entrepreneurs often opt for moving to tax havens abroad or South Carolina.

Carol Nochajski

Wilson

Editor:

To my fellow residents of Orleans County, I personally believe that much of the political divide that exists in our country today arises more from misunderstanding than anything else.

The word socialism is often tossed around in our area as a slur by many Conservative voters and it seems as if they do not understand the effect that socialist ideals and practices have had on our county/country.

It is not controversial to imply that Orleans County is one of the most socio-economically disadvantaged areas in Upstate New York and that the vast majority of us residents rely on inherently socialist systems to make our daily lives possible.

The vast majority of Orleans County residents depend on public schools as a means for their children to obtain an education and climb the socioeconomic ladder, but in a completely capitalist, “free market” America, public schools would likely not have the funding to exist, leaving many children in our community without the opportunity to chase their dreams, or even pay their bills.

Many of our elders in Orleans County depend on Social Security to live independently after retirement, even if they do not have enough money saved on their own to do so (yes, I understand that each member pays into SS over the years, but it is still an inherently socialist program).

How many of you, or a loved one, have ever collected Unemployment or Workers’ Comp during hard times? Well, both of these programs are also deeply rooted in socialist philosophy and practice. To clarify, I am not advocating for a completely socialist society, but it seems ignorant for many of you to denounce socialism when it has most likely had a profoundly positive impact on your life or the lives of loved ones.

It is also not controversial to imply that sometimes, Orleans County becomes a little too disconnected from the trends and changing values of the majority of the United States. Statistics show that the Republican Party just does not align with the values of younger generations of voters overall and this is not by accident.

The Republican Party is a relic at this point and if it ever hopes to gain support from more open-minded and ethnically diverse young people, I personally believe it must adopt policies that support the utilitarian good of all, rather than just capitalizing on fear and misinformation to manipulate poor white people into supporting madmen like Donald Trump, who only act with self-interest in mind. You can read this and shrug my opinions off, but the writing is on the wall.

To my fellow citizens of Orleans County, either we adapt or we die, both spiritually and economically. To quote both Theodore Parker and later Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. – “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”

Either we can come together as a community and advocate for justice ourselves, or justice will eventually overcome anyway, whether you like it or not. Would you rather have your legacy be on the right or wrong side of history? The choice is up to you.

Also, do not forget to vote for Nate McMurray for Congress, a true American who advocates for liberty and justice for all.

Eric Neace, Jr.

Lyndonville

Editor:

For 19 years, I have worked in the Orleans County Clerk’s Office serving our residents with respect and competency. It is an immense source of pride in my life to serve as your Acting County Clerk and I take my appointment seriously.

My staff and I strive to provide excellent customer service to the residents of Orleans County, and I believe we are doing just that. My desire is to continue serving Orleans County residents as your elected County Clerk for many years to come.

Regardless of occupation, the ability of a supervisor to be able to work beside or in place of any worker which they are tasked to oversee is important. Anyone who has had a boss that knew less about their job than they did will understand this implicitly. Unfortunately, it seems this concept has been falling by the wayside over the years. Too many people feel their ability to simply delegate responsibility is in itself all the qualification necessary for any particular managerial position.

The possibility that I would one day be thrust into the political arena had never crossed my mind, and in hindsight I was quite naïve as to how the process actually worked. Exactly one year ago to the day, a small group of friends gathered together at my house for what has become a tradition during Trick or Treating, “the Halloween Lasagna”, and it was that night the first utterance of a possible campaign escaped my lips.

Although not one person in the room had ever before been personally involved in a political campaign, the idea was met with a high level of enthusiasm. A truck driver became a “Campaign Manager”, a boyfriend became a trusted consultant/helper/companion, and a worker became a candidate. Completely lacking experience in the political arena, we collectively learned the basics of a political endeavor as we muddled through a stressful, exhausting campaign.

And now just days before November 3rd, I now share with them a delicious pan of lasagna as thanks for all their hard work and effort.

For the last eight weeks, the blessing of beautiful weather afforded the opportunity to walk and visit the voters in every township in Orleans County on the weekends. Although some would have you think I have spoken harshly against my opponent, I assure you that I have not spread a single unkind word. My only focus has been to tell the voters of my experience and the many years I served in the County Clerk’s Office. That has been my focus from the very start of this campaign.

I ask every voter, every Republican, Democrat, Conservative and Independent, please exercise your right to vote in this 2020 election. Is it important to our country, state and county. Regardless of the outcome of the County Clerk race, I remain proud of the campaign that I have run and grateful to those who have supported me along the way.

Diane L. Shampine

Holley

Editor:

Responding to Paul Lauricella’s post, so full of untruths about Nate McMurray and hateful stock lies that it’s hard to know where to start.

Let’s begin here: Aren’t we tired of the divisiveness? Patriots are abandoning the truth to Russians – consistently identified by Trump’s own appointed intelligence agencies – as actively spreading lies for the precise reason of dividing us and weakening democracy.

The red-flag warning words, “socialist radicals” always precede words of fear, not fact, to persuade people. It is the Trumpian way. But Americans are smart. Hoards of Conservatives across this country are lamenting the death of family values and fiscal responsibility, leaving the GOP, and actively fighting against it through groups of Conservatives like the Lincoln Project.

People are onto the desperate last breaths of fear-mongers trying to steal the future from average working folks. Groups like the large gathering of Republicans, Independents and Democrats: farmers, ministers and teachers, who came to Albion last week to support Nate McMurray for Congress are tired of the empty rhetoric. Years of control by Republicans who presume we will vote for them brought us together. We are through being taken for granted.

Politicians like Trump and Chris Jacobs have lied to us and distorted the Conservative movement by mishandling the economy. Their policies bring small temporary gains to hard working farmers, teachers and others: everyday folks trying to eke out a living, but burden us for generations to come by rewarding the rich and punishing the working class. They’ve added trillions of dollars to our national debt.

This all happened before Covid-19 but has been dramatically worsened by the Trump administration’s “hands-off” no-plan-policy and lies about the seriousness of Covid-19. Hospitals in the Midwest have no ICU beds open and Covid-19 is spreading like wild fire because we continue to be misled by our federal government. We have a long road ahead of us because of these failures.

After years of Republican control our Congressional District has the worst job market in the entire country, according to the Wall Street Journal. We are sick and tired of politicians scaring us into voting for them promising help, then doing nothing for us. Neither Chris Jacobs nor his predecessor Chris Collins even bother to talk with voters on the street or in town halls. Average people just don’t count as far as they’re concerned.

Nate McMurray knows we do count because he knows struggle. He grew up in a poor family with seven kids and a young widowed mother who worked three jobs and had her husband’s social security benefits to barely make ends meet. Nate wants us all to have the opportunities he realized through grit and hard work. He fights policies that do not benefit us, whether offered by Democrats or Republicans. He is a gun owning corporate attorney – a capitalist who supports the second amendment.

Let truth and civility, not hateful lies, guide you as you vote.

Nate McMurray is the right choice for Congress.

Cindy Fleischer

Mendon

Editor:

I have already voted for Joe Biden. There are many reasons why. One, he will use the presidency and the power of the federal government to fight the Covid-19 crisis.

He and President Obama used this ability to lead the country out of the 2008 financial crisis. Covid-19 is an area where Trump and his sycophants have been failures. Please read the recent letters to the Hub that support Trump. Most do not even acknowledge the Covid crisis. And none of these writers backed up Trump’s first Covid lie, back in March or so, or his latest lie that we’ve beaten Covid-19.

I  voted against Trump because he has taken the country’s traditional blind eye (exploited mostly by the Republican party) of this country’s racism to an incredible new low.

I’m 81 and remember Richard Nixon’s southern strategy. Nixon, using the coded language of “law and order”, appealed to all the bigots in this country that hated the civil rights acts of the 1960s.

And then, 20 or so years later, Ronald  Reagan gave his first campaign speech, which upheld states’ rights, about 10 miles from where three civil rights workers had been murdered. A bit of definition here: “states rights” was the principle behind which the white murderers were acquitted.

Reagan also talked of welfare Cadillac queens, while admitting he really knew of none. Then came George H.W. Bush’s Willie Horton ads which played on white fear of blacks. Nixon, Reagan and Bush all exploited this white fear while, on the surface, officially condemning it. Then came Trump. He not only does not condemn racism, he praises it. He said there were “good people on both sides” in Charlottesville. He very recently  told the Proud Boys to “stand back and stand by.”

Trump’s praise is a new low which, to their credit, a few Republicans have condemned. We can hope these Republicans will help vote Trump out.

Some of these Republicans started the Lincoln Project, the subject of a recent 60 Minutes show.

One founder was Steve Schmidt, a senior advisor in McCain’s presidential campaign. In 60 Minutes, Schmidt said Trump made him realize how naïve he had been about the embedded racism in the Republican Party. Schmidt is to be commended for the acknowledgement of his naivety.

This is the second most important election since the country’s third election when George Washington chose not to run for a third term. He’d been unanimously elected in the first two and knew that that unanimity could continue to third and later terms, thereby setting the president up as a de facto monarch.

Trump has clearly stated his desire to be a monarch by musing about deserving a third term.

Washington’s lesson has stood us in good stead for over 220 years. Please terminate Trump now and make George Washington proud!

Dennis Seekins

Lyndonville

Editor:

Definition of cronyism: The appointment of friends and associates to positions of authority, without proper regard to their qualifications.

If Ed Morgan was so worried about the right person getting into the highway superintendent position to replace him, maybe he should have attended the Town of Murray Republican Committee meeting to observe the interview, ask pertinent questions and cast a vote. Instead, in usual fashion, he sent his secretary to the meeting to place a vote for him.  Since your good choice didn’t win the committee vote, you and your buddies have supported this individual to run against Dirk Lammes. Dirk’s opponent is running on popularity, instead of qualifications.

Ed, you know darn well Dirk Lammes is the most qualified for the job. You had a thousand questions for Dirk about his techniques when he put the booster pump station in Murray those years ago. Dirk ran the job and yes, Dirk also ran machinery. He bid on that job, ran his own numbers. He can do it all.

Dirk does paper work all the time. Reports, pay apps, administrative, payroll, bids, contracts, insurance, personnel. The details of the job are what you make them. Dirk will redefine it.

Art Knab

Murray

Editor:

As a group of Orleans County Democrats, we are writing this in support of Diane (Bower) Shampine who’s running for Orleans County Clerk.

Our primary reason, as Democrats, for strongly endorsing Diane Shampine is her extensive experience in working in the Clerk’s Office. She’s been a file clerk, appointed Deputy Clerk and since January 2020, she has been the acting Orleans County Clerk.

At any time, a person with Diane Shampine’s experience would be an expected choice for a demanding position such as County Clerk. During the pandemic, it has been an additional challenge to continue to serve the residents of this county but Diane Shampine has risen to that challenge.

We urge you voters who are still to cast your ballot to look to the Conservative Party line candidate and please vote for the only candidate with the experience necessary to efficiently and effectively run the Orleans County Clerk’s office and that person is Diane Shampine.

Thank you.

Mary Beth Lindsay, Clarendon

Nate Lindsay, Clarendon

Debbie Monacelli, Village of Holley

Mark Monacelli, Village of Holley

Anne Smith, Clarendon

Lynn Vendetti, Fancher

Mark Bower, Village of Holley

Editor:

In response to Jeanne Crane, recently retired Democrat Party chairwoman. I made the assumption that you were probably getting out because your party had become so radical anti-American that no one with any common sense could in good conscience belong to a party that so hates one’s country. Let alone be a representative.

I was wrong. I stand by my statement that Nate McMurray is a radical socialist and even worse. Jacobs voted party lines 16 out of 19 votes. I see it as he voted to make the country better and those 3 votes he didn’t does not make me happy.

I can tell you he votes with the traitorous Democrats a lot more on other votes. You should like him. The Postal Service had problems long before Chris Jacobs’ vote. It’s called labor unions and mismanagement. I like the Post Office and I use it all the time in my business but I would have been very mad if Jacobs had voted the other way. I’m glad he made that mistake.

I and the Conservative Party of NY supported Beth Parlato, a real conservative. She didn’t win. We love the country so we are backing Chris Jacobs because on his worst day he is better than someone who belongs to the Democrat, America-hating party like Nate McMurray. The fact that he is a Democrat in this climate makes him the enemy of his country in my book. Not someone that loves it. A politician that loves this country would never ever belong to the Democrat Party.

Nate McMurray, if he wins and that is very doubtful, would as a Democrat oversee the destruction of this country as Democrats in Congress want to transform it. That wasn’t said carelessly or falsely but by listening to his own words.

I am not fooled by him nor is anyone with any common sense. The Democrats have very ill intentions for this country and people who do not agree with them if they win. I ask voters to save the seat. Yes that seat or any seat in this country should never be filled by a Democrat.

We see this by all the lunatics that are mayors and governors or city councils controlled by these Democrats throughout the country who allow violence and destruction of property, murder, looting, hatred for police just doing their job, brainwashing in the education system.

Nate McMurray is not a nice guy especially after what he said about terminal cancer patient Michael Caputo.

“I wish death on no one,” the candidate wrote on Twitter. “But this man will enjoy the best public healthcare imaginable. While denying millions the same, and lying about a virus that’s killing us.”

“My pity is limited,” McMurray added.

You say he’s endorsed by 26 labor unions like that is good thing. You say he will fight for health care, yes he will fight for single-payer government-controlled healthcare. To ruin everyone else’s health care like Obama did. So let me let the readers in one more time on the dangers of voting for a radical socialist Democrat like Nate McMurray. He, like all Democrat gun grabbers, is out to abolish the Second Amendment. Says radical leftist Congressman Brian Higgins isn’t aggressive enough. Says he doesn’t like Trump. He wants to Un-Trump NY 27. He wants Medicare and weed for all. He supports open borders.

He is endorsed by the communist Working Family Party. He is endorsed by the radical public employee unions AFL-CIO and NYS Teachers Unions that bleed the taxpayers dry and protect incompetence in this state.

He will push the Anti-American Agenda 21 globalist policies of the UN, the Democrat Party and be a lap dog to Nancy Pelosi.

Democrat politicians are the most incompetent, are purposefully destructive and hateful to all America stands for and they all must be driven from office through the electoral system or we will not have a country.

Give the entire Democrat Party in the NY State Senate, the House of Representatives, the U.S. Senate and for president of the United States a decisive defeat at the ballot box or our country is over as we know it.

With all sincerity.

Paul Lauricella

Lyndonville

Orleans County Conservative Party Chairman

Editor:

People have or will have voted soon. I just heard an astute observation. “Where or what is the Republican platform?” Indeed, they did not adopt one.

The final saw is “People are not dying from Covid; the huge increase in deaths this year is a billing issue.” Some platform.

In fact, if most of the country voters turn out for Biden it will mean that issues like good health and economy through subsidized private insurance and stimulus to avoid depression won. It will be an endorsement for good equal pay, taking on climate change, helping farm trade,  inclusiveness and the like. We will have adopted what was once tilted towards modern Democratic concerns

That would be what happened in the 1830s when the Whig party members voted in the Democratic Party’s ideas. The Whigs disintegrated and all that remained was the “Do Nothing” faction which was anti-Irish, anti-Germany, anti-Catholic, anti-immigration and anti-Italian – to point these folks were barred from public employment in some cities. It too quickly fell apart under its own weight once exposed to the light of democracy.

Hatred over good ideas is not sustainable in a democracy. Epithets over ideas is not sustainable in a democracy. That’s the history lesson, here and elsewhere.

So in a few days, or weeks, we will find out if we are still a capitalist democracy or a country dominated by private power, private wealth with rulers and undeserving  and contemptable servants. When the election is viewed according to these issues and not epithets this is a heck of an inflection point.

It’s the same point we were at when the Declaration of Independence was penned and stated: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the               pursuit of Happiness.”

In it the laws of nature and God to advance these rights were declared to take priority over the laws of government and man. They are the greatest sentences in our founding document.

In sum this election is about the historic fight of personal rights against hate by voting to advance our founders’ reliance on natural law to  secure life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for all.

Tory or Patriot? Your vote marks you and history awaits.

Conrad F. Cropsey

Albion