Letters

“ln Defense of the Republic.”

That is what Congressman Lee Zeldin entitled a video of his speech when he objected to the counting of legally cast and court-sanctioned votes on the floor of the Capitol on Wednesday night. This objection was raised after the mobs had attacked and ransacked our Capitol.

Some would call this tone deaf. Many others have termed it as sedition.

As a legislator, Mr. Zeldin was aware that the Electoral College vote would be “regularly given” and “lawfully certified,” the two constitutional grounds to object to those votes. As an attorney (unless he got his degree from Trump University), he knew that all legal challenges, including the Supreme Court, had been exhausted.

Mr. Zeldin later explained that his vote to overturn these legal votes was because “many of my constituents have been outraged and demanded that I voice their objections.” Really? ls that how you now choose to govern? Based on the loudest voices?

l’ve been to his website and it appears that a majority of the commenters are “outraged” and are demanding his resignation. Mr. Zeldin, are you planning to be consistent and resign your seat? If not, are you to cast your vote from here on based on constituent sentiment? lf so, you may very well have to change your stance on gun control, tax policy, women’s rights, environmental policy, voting rights, and much, much more.

You don’t hold town halls, you don’t answer emails, yet you somehow think you know the pulse of your district. You are very good at finding a TV camera while in D.C. as you proclaim your fealty to Donald Trump over and over again. Now that the reign of the Mad King is coming to a close, will you try to reinvent yourself?

I say that, if so, it is too little, too late. As many of your constituents have told you, it is time to resign.

Harry Mainzer

East Quogue