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Over the weekend, the Hudson Valley was hit with torrential rainfall that led to catastrophic flooding and dangerous conditions.
We’ve seen this before. During Hurricane Ida, I lost several of my constituents to flooding. It’s why I fought so hard to pass the Inflation Reduction Act, the single-largest climate action the United States has taken to stop global warming. As a candidate, Congressman Mike Lawler, a former oil and gas lobbyist, opposed the Inflation Reduction Act. No surprise there. I voted for it anyway—to lower the cost of clean, renewable energy, to create millions of good-paying, green jobs, and to protect our planet for generations to come. It’s been devastating seeing this destruction happen in our own backyard. But the Hudson Valley is strong and I know we'll get through this together as a community. And while I'm feeling for our communities, I'm also fed up with Congressman Lawler. Flooding doesn’t happen in a vacuum, and Lawler knows that. Climate change is making natural disasters worse—it's just a fact. And while he tweets his "concerns," he's not apologizing for his past as a Big Oil lobbyist who voted against vital climate legislation every chance he got. Maybe it’s because he’s too busy writing letters to Eric Adams about wood- and coal-fired pizza ovens in New York City, which he proudly tweeted about on Friday. There's so much more work to do. We've got the immediate cleanup, and we have to act rapidly on the big picture to stop these natural disasters from getting worse. With Lawler in office, we're not going to make progress. We’re in this together. –Mondaire
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