After a campaign sign for Democratic congressional candidate Perry Gershon was found defaced with a swastika, incumbent Rep. Lee Zeldin suggested it was the work of Gershon’s own team, News 12 Long Island reported. Gershon, who is Jewish, said other signs were recently vandalized with phrases like “baby killer” and “gay lover.” Zeldin, also Jewish,…
Eastern Long Island is a study in contrasts. It’s got acres of farms, punctuated by mom-and-pop stores. But it’s also home to the Hamptons, where New York’s elite summers. After a day on the stump in early October, Perry Gershon’s campaign for the area’s congressional seat was working that Hamptons glitz with Alec Baldwin, who…
President Trump endorsed Long Island Republican Rep. Lee Zeldin following a poll showing he is in a tough fight to win reelection. The president tweeted Wednesday that Zeldin, who represents the eastern end of Long Island, has his “Complete and Total Endorsement!” That comes less than a week after a liberal PAC released a poll…
Rep. Lee Zeldin was almost duped by Sacha Baron Cohen’s “What Is America?”, but evaded the fate that has befallen political figures from Sarah Palin to Roy Moore, the New York Post reported. Baron Cohen’s team reportedly attempted to use the same trickery that fooled Moore and Tea Partier Joe Walsh: Claiming that Zeldin was…
New York Republican congressman Lee Zeldin took his family on a tour of the West Wing on Thursday night, embracing the nostalgia of when he first experienced it as a kid in 1986. “Last night, I took three VIPs to the West Wing for a tour of history, where Presidents have tackled some of the…
Businessman Perry Gershon beat a crowded field to secure the Democratic nomination for New York’s 1st Congressional District and face off against Jewish Republican incumbent Lee Zeldin in November, Patch reports. Zeldin, one of two Jewish Republicans in the House, ran unopposed in the GOP primary. Gershon fended off four competitors to nab the Democratic…
Ivanka Trump finally broke her silence on President Trump’s unpopular policy of separating immigrant children from parents when she thanked him for signing a controversial executive order allowing immigrant families to be imprisoned together. Thank you @POTUS for taking critical action ending family separation at our border. Congress must now act + find a lasting…
Accusing him of accepting “blood money” from the National Rifle Association, some 400 activists protested Tuesday outside New York Rep. Lee Zeldin’s office in Patchogue. The protesters argued that the Long Island Republican, one of only two Jewish Republicans in Congress, is “selling our lives to the NRA.” Zeldin received nearly $29,000 last year from…
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