Congresswoman and Republican Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik continues to advocate for her constituents. Recently, she supported students in her district by securing more than a MILLION dollars for the CFES Brilliant Pathways program through the Department of Education’s Rural Postsecondary and Economic Development Program. As a result of this program, 4,000 high school students can pursue degree programs and work towards their careers. The program is expected to positively impact tens of thousands in the region.
The return of over $1.2 million in taxpayer funds will help students receive higher education, attend college, and be more likely to enter the workforce. In turn, this will provide them with increased opportunities for earning degrees.
Congresswoman Stefanik is relentlessly achieving positive results that all her constituents, no matter what party they are in, benefit from.
Annelise Cevallos
Waddington NY
I thank God for Elise Stefanie and hope she stays strong for what is right.
Please.
Elise voted against the budget.
Why is she takng credit for items in a budget she voted against?
This is the most recent of many letters published by this paper that came from interns at Stefanik’s campaign that apparently didn’t disclose their professional relationship with the letter’s subject. Ask yourself why a “constituent” from way up north near Malone is writing to a Mohawk Valley paper about funds for an educational project in the Lake Champlain region, the funding of which is something that Stefanik more than likely voted against anyway. Editor, I know things are tough in the print news world and you probably don’t have the time to thoroughly vet the source of every letter that comes in, but it has to be embarrassing when identical letters show up in the newspapers for Schenectady, Glens Falls, Plattsburgh, and Watertown because the interns have sent them out en masse as they were instructed to do. To save you the time in vetting the letters, may I suggest that anything you receive that compliments Stefanik and calls her by her entire frilly title of “Congresswoman and Republican Conference Chairwoman” is a fake.
As long as letters to the editor meet our standards, they are published. Knowing where someone works or who they work for is not a requirement to submit, and last I knew, even interns still have a First Amendment right to voice their opinion. Don’t worry about us – things are not tough for us in our market…we’re doing just fine.
I don’t believe for a moment that the interns are voicing opinions, I believe they’re adding their names to press releases written by paid staffers or possibly Stefanik herself. The writing style is the same no matter whose name is on them. You should publish whatever letters you like, but if it’s a press release from Stefanik’s office it should be disclosed, attaching other people’s names is fundamentally dishonest and God knows what she’s teaching the kids here. That it’s OK to lie as long as you’re not caught?