To the Editor:

I'm writing in response to two items that appeared in your 4/19-25/24 edition about Rep. Elise Stefanik.

First, regarding her ghost-written piece about supporting rural access to health care in the North country. See it for what it is, electioneering and an attempt to claim credit for something she's not delivered on and actually fought against.

A search of her votes in Congress demonstrates her attacks on rural health care; she's voted repeatedly against the Affordable Care Act. This is the law that's helped countless neighbors in the NY21. She may tell you differently, but she's not known for telling the truth.

Second, concerns Rep. Stefanik's receipt of the Jack Kemp Leadership Award by the NYGOP.

She's a disgrace to his name and what Kemp actually stood for. Kemp was a Reagan Republican who exuded the optimism of the times and fought for the "little guy", including undocumented aliens.

Stefanik and Kemp share next to nothing in common be it policy prescriptions, ideology, or temperament. Reagan-Kemp times were of hopefulness and growing prosperity.

The Trump-Stefanik days are dystopian and revanchist. If the NYSGOP had an award for being a lickspittle and propensity to untruthfulness, Stefanik gets my support.

Jack McGuire

Potsdam