Dismayed to see Yates candidate on ballot who was in D.C. for Jan. 6 attack on Capitol

Editor:

As we get closer to Election Day, we all have choices and decisions to make about who would be the best candidates to vote for in your town, county, state, and federal government.

One person who I was shocked and dismayed to see running was Steven A. Colon for the position of Yates Town Councilman.  As any avid Hub reader remembers, in June of last year he posted that he attended the attempt to overthrow our freely elected government and was at the Capitol in Washington, D.C. that day – Jan. 6, 2021.

In his own words he wrote, “Treasonist, traitorous, lying rat actions drove me there.” In the nearly three years since the attempted coup to overthrow our freely elected government, 378 people are in prison because they did the same thing that Mr. Colon did.

There still is not one shred of evidence that the 2020 Presidential Election was not valid. I don’t know Paul Lauricella, but the phrase “you are the company that you keep,” so I can’t imagine that he is a choirboy either.

To me, voting for this pair would be dangerous to our area and is a grave mistake. If you can’t even live in reality, how can you govern honestly?

John Fredericks

Albion