The hypocrisy of Congressman Lee Zeldin knows no limits.
On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, he sent out a mass email picturing the great leader with some laudatory words about him. It was a thinly veiled advertising piece attempting to enlist Dr. King, unwillingly, in bolstering the congressman’s woeful image.
It came less than a week after he and his cohorts in Congress tried to disenfranchise millions of African American citizens in Philadelphia, Milwaukee, Phoenix, Detroit, Atlanta and throughout the nation, and to deny the presidency rightfully won by the candidate they overwhelmingly supported, by voting to overturn the election (and our democracy itself) based upon the “Big Lie” that it was stolen — of which, despite the specious claptrap he spouted in his five minutes of grandstanding in the House, there has never been any credible evidence.
They and the madman who now owns them are responsible not only for the invasion of the Capitol building by his most fanatical followers but also for creating the poisonous myth of a stolen election, which will bitterly divide our country for decades to come — all for no reason other than to preserve their political power.
Mr. Zeldin and his fellow Republican truth deniers are the very kind of politician who stridently opposed King in his day and are today hard at work opposing his goals, including voting rights and economic justice, and espousing today’s racist positions, such as the demonizing of immigrants and Black Lives Matter protesters.
By attempting to destroy the sanctity and finality of the electoral process, Congressman Zeldin has forfeited any right to be called a leader or a true representative of his district.
William A. Simon
New York City and Sagaponack
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