Failed to take House, so they rewrite rules

New York Democrats: If they can’t win fairly, they will do everything they can to destroy the playing field and rewrite the rules no matter what damage it causes.

First, when it looked like Republicans had a chance to be competitive in 2022, Albany Democrats drew an extreme gerrymander at the behest of national Democratic Party bosses, in direct violation of the state Constitution.

When Republicans rightly sued and a fair map was established at the state’s highest court, Democrats then chased out the chief judge and stacked the court in their favor.

When Democrats didn’t approve of 2022 election results on those fair maps, they appealed to their newly rigged court to regain control of the redistricting process.

When their suit succeeded, the Independent Redistricting Commission became their new enemy. Directed by the court, the IRC passed a new, bipartisan map.

Even though the IRC map provided Democrats with a greater partisan advantage than the current, competitive map used in the 2022 election, Democrats still threw a temper tantrum and rejected the bipartisan map to pass their own gerrymandered districts.

To further secure their grip on power, Democrats are now fasttracking legislation to limit New Yorkers’ options to challenge them in court.

Corrupt Albany politicians must end their self-serving power grabs. The greatest attacks on democracy in New York are being launched without apology by the Democrats running this state into the ground. In November, voters of New York should return the favor by being the ones to fill these Democrats with extensive regret.

Lee Zeldin (R) represented Suffolk County in the House of Representatives from 2015-2023 and ran for governor of New York in 2022.