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Rhiannon12866

(204,738 posts)
Tue Feb 2, 2021, 12:45 AM Feb 2021

Billboard campaign calls on Stefanik to resign

Two billboards calling on U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-Schuylerville, to resign because of her efforts to challenge the results of the 2020 presidential election are scheduled to go up on Wednesday.

The Republican Accountability Project is putting up the billboards in Queensbury and Fort Ann that say: “You Lied About the Election. The Capitol Was Attacked. Stefanik: Resign.”

The Queensbury billboard is located on Route 9 about 1,000 feet north of the intersection with Quaker Road and faces north. The Fort Ann one is on Route 149, facing east, and is located 6-1/2 miles east of Route 9.

The project is funded by Republicans and is targeting lawmakers who raised objections during the certification on Jan. 6 of the Electoral College results in battleground states won by Democratic President Joe Biden over Republican former President Donald Trump.

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The billboards were supposed to go up in both locations on Monday, but there was a delay in printing them and installing them because of the weather, according to Meaghan Leister, spokeswoman for the Defending Democracy Together organization, of which the Republican Accountability Project is one component.

“Among too many other Republican members of Congress, Representative Stefanik helped incite the attack on the Capitol by spreading lies about the election, which proves she is unfit to hold office and should be nowhere near power,” Leister said in an email.

The Republican Accountability Project said on its website that the attacks were: “directly incited by Trump and the overwhelming majority of Republicans in Congress who had been falsely claiming, for months — and in the immediate moments before the attack — that the election had been stolen from Trump.


Read more: https://poststar.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/billboard-campaign-calls-on-stefanik-to-resign/article_653b9648-c1b2-5d8a-b157-f990855e561b.html



Seen here is a mock-up of billboards that are scheduled to go up on Wednesday in Queensbury and Fort Ann asking U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-Schuylerville, to resign because of her efforts to challenge the presidential election. The group behind the billboard campaign, the Republican Accountability Project, said the actions of lawmakers to cast doubt on the election incited the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.


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Billboard campaign calls on Stefanik to resign (Original Post) Rhiannon12866 Feb 2021 OP
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Yup, she embarrassed herself and the district when she appeared on national news with Gym Jordan Rhiannon12866 Feb 2021 #2

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Rhiannon12866

(204,738 posts)
2. Yup, she embarrassed herself and the district when she appeared on national news with Gym Jordan
Tue Feb 2, 2021, 12:55 AM
Feb 2021

During the last impeachment hearings. How she keeps getting reelected is beyond me since there have been protests since her first term - when she replaced retiring moderate Democrat Bill Owens. Instead, she just keeps getting worse.

And when did she move to Schuylerville?? I have relatives there who are lifelong Democrats and would never vote for her. I guess she had to choose another hometown since the one she chose initially claimed to have never heard of her. Apparently, her parents had a summer home there.

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