LAWLER CAMPAIGN CALLED OUT MONDAIRE JONES FOR DOUBLING DOWN ON RADICAL AGENDA
October 16, 2024
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Pearl River, NY – 10/16/2024… Today, the Lawler for Congress campaign calls out Mondaire Jones for confirming what voters in New York’s 17th District have long suspected.
While on a radio interview with WNYC, Mondaire was asked, “Have your views changed on anything since you won in 2020?”
Mondaire responded, “I would challenge somebody to point to a reversal on my positions on any number of issues.”
“Mondaire Jones has attempted to distance himself from his radical positions since running for Congress in 2020 and his failed attempt to run for Congress in Brooklyn in 2022,” said Ciro Riccardi, Lawler for Congress Campaign Manager. “At a time when Hudson Valley families are concerned about the crushing affordability crisis, Mondaire Jones has doubled down and fully embraced his extreme and out-of-touch socialist, tax-and-spend ideology.”
The Lawler for Congress campaign highlighted some of Mondaire Jones’ most radical positions:
- “I do see myself sharing many of the same views as the democratic socialists. I think that’s demonstrably true.”
- Jones Praised AOC Noting “We Need More People In Congress Like Her”
- Jones advocated to expand the Supreme Court
- Jones sponsored, argued in favor, and voted for legislation to allow rapists and cop killers vote from prison
- Jones supported legislation to grant amnesty to illegal immigrants with criminal histories
- In 2021, one of Jones’ first acts in Congress was to co-sponsor legislation to establish a commission to study and consider a proposal for Reparations
- In 2020, Jones called for mandatory gun buybacks
- In 2020, Jones called for eliminating all student debt
- In 2020, Jones praised AOC for “leading the way on a #GreenNewDeal”
- In 2019, Jones noted his support for Medicare For All on his campaign website
- In 2019, Jones criticized members of his own party for funding ICE
- In 2020, Jones’ campaign website called for increasing the US Refugee cap
- In 2020, Jones pushed to eliminate mandatory minimums, weakening penalties for violent criminals
- In 2020, Jones called on Congress to abolish cash bail
- In 2019, Jones spoke at a protest to celebrate cashless bail taking effect in NY
- In 2020, Jones noted “Of course we need to… defund the police.”
- In 2022, Jones noted his support of Congestion Pricing, and claimed it was “Long Overdue”
“Mondaire Jones’ extreme beliefs are wildly out of step with Hudson Valley families. On November 5th, voters of New York’s 17th District will send Mondaire packing—likely off to search for yet another district to run in,” concluded Ciro Riccardi.
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