New York Democratic legislators Working on the Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik’s house chair vacant until the summer in an unprecedented move that was cut out last week during late-night discussions, a Republican Empire State Assemblyman told Fox Digital.
“We have still not seen the final proposal of the Democrats in Albany, but there is no doubt that Tammany Hall corruption is alive and is good in the capital of the state,” Republican assembly of the New York Matt Slater, who 94th District of the State represents in areas of areas of Putnam and Westchester Counties areas, FOX News Digital told in an exclusive zoom interview on Sunday morning.
“It is just flagrant corrupt for the New York State Democrats to continue to change the rules of involvement, just out of self-interest. Meanwhile, New Yorkers are struggling in so many different ways. U-haul has just given us our worst migration rating ever because ever because because because because because because ever because There are so many New Yorkers who are fleeing this state.
Slater, who serves as the ranking republican in the State election law committee, responded to state democrats who worked to introduce legislation that could keep Stefanik’s household chair until June, if the state holds its planned primary elections. Stefanik is in the middle of her confirmation process to serve in the Trump administration and is expected to lay her home seat if the Senate confirms her as the next American ambassador in the United Nations.
Rep. Elise Stefanik, RN.Y., the candidate for the American ambassador in the United Nations, arrives for her confirmation from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on January 21, 2025. (Tierney L. Cross/Bloomberg via Getty images)
According to current legislation, the Governor of New York has 10 days to explain a special election for an empty seat and an extra 80 to 90 days to keep the elections. Stefanik’s chair is the key to the Republican Party and the second government of Trump, because Republicans have a slender majority with 218 members on the The 215 members of Democrats.
The expected legislation of the State of Democrats has not yet been introduced, but Democrats were called on Friday evening to be an emergency conference to discuss such a bill, Slater explained. He expects to have a copy of the bill of the Democrats on Monday morning.
Slater said that the purpose of the Democrats to change the election laws to bring the special election back to summer is part of their larger agenda Fight the second Trump administration.
“The speaker Johnson currently has the most difficult job in the government and tries to keep the Republican conference together. This would clearly make that margin of the Republican control much thinner and that much more challenging for the speaker and, again, jeopardize it from President Trump who of President Trump in danger agenda to get through the congress.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (Alex Kent/Getty Images/File)
He pointed to a whole series of cases in which the New York Democrats have used their state power to combat Trump and the Republican party in recent years, including grymage and the “pile” of the New York top court with Democrats.
“If you look at the track record of the Democrats, who controls every aspect of the state government here in New York, they have changed the rules so often just because it benefits them. Whether it is redistribution, or the Court of Appeal Stacks, whether it allows the Governor to remove her then driven Lieutenant Governor from the mood.
NY Republican Assembly Matt Slater (Legislative power)
“And in this case it will deprive 800,000 New Yorkers from the right representation in Washington. And oh by the way, there were two special elections last year. And the Democrats said nothing about changing the rules because the fact of the case is, this His republican districts that will be hit, and they try to disrupt the Trump government and, to be honest, to be able to deliver their agenda. “
President Donald Trump nominated Stefanik to serve as the American ambassador in the United Nations under his second administration. The Senate Committee for Foreign Relations voted to promote the confirmation of the New York Republican on Thursday, with its entire Senate floor vote expected later this week.
Rep. Mike Lawler, a Republican from New York, left, and assembly Matt Slater, a Republican from New York, will be shown during a campaign event at the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Mahopac, New York, on June 29, 2023. (Bloomberg via Getty images)
Stefanik is expected to resign from the American house to take the ambassadorship if and when the Senate officially confirms her nomination.
A spokesperson for Democrat New York Gov. Kathy Hochul Gothamist said that “she is of the opinion that it is crucial to increase the rise of voters and to lower the costs of election administration, and she would support the legislation that achieved that goal.”
Slater gave cold water to the statement of the office that rooted the proposal in promoting the rise and relaxation of voters, pointing to two special elections held last year – former Democrat Rep. Brian Higgins’ seat and the special elections of February 2024 to replace the former Republican to replace the former Republican Rep. George Santos’ in a district where Democrats were expected to have a lead over the Gop. Democrats, who have held Trifecta control in the state since 2018, did not insist on changing the special election laws last year, noted Slater.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images/File)
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“I can’t believe how hypocritical the governor and her office can be in this, because I can remind the governor that she had two special elections for the congress last year,” he said.
“To sit here and to say that this taxpayer will save money and increase the rise of voters, but you didn’t think about it last year when your own party had special elections that you preferred to win? Fact of the This is this, this is this everything has to do with the fact that this is a republican seat.
Local points of sale have reported that the bill could push the special elections after June to November, when the State holds its general elections, although Slater doubts that Democrats would push the envelope so far.
House Gop -Conference chair Elise Stefanik (Getty Images)
“If you want to talk about increasing the rise of voters and saving tax money, they really have no excuse to wait after that date of June. And so you know, yes, it is always a possibility that November the date Is they placed in the legislation, but I am hard to believe they would go so far, “he said.
Slater argued that the pressure of Democrats to approve the special election change is a wake-up call for New Yorkers.
“(It is) so transparently political that New Yorkers must wake up, and they have to understand that this is not the leadership we ask for. President Trump has a big agenda, and this is all about disturbing that agenda to America on To put the first place, “he said.
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Stefanik is an old Trump fellow who is chairman of the House Republican Conference From 2021 to 2025, making it the fourth most powerful Republican in the house. She was first chosen in the house in Blue New York in 2014 at the age of 30, making her the youngest woman who was chosen in the house at the time.
Fox News Digital reached the Governor’s office on Sunday, but did not immediately receive an answer.
