Give ’em Hell, Elise!

It's about as goofy a picture of me as you'll see, but I have to post it anyway. Yesterday, I had the opportunity to attend a send-off event for my congresswoman and our future UN Ambassador, Elise Stefanik, and I fought the crowd to get this shot.

I think the UN is exactly where she needs to be. She's been great at constituent service up here in "the North Country," as we call our little frozen corner of the world. But given our generally depressed local economy and the difficulty of encouraging companies to locate in a state as backward and hostile to business as New York, being good at serving our district and being fiscally conservative really don't go hand-in-hand: I'm sure we're a net recipient of federal largess, and we have Elise to thank for a lot of that.

In other words, as Republican Congressmen and Congresswomen go, she gets pretty low grades as a conservative.

Where she's made her mark is in pushing back against terrorist sympathizers on campus and upholding basic standards of Western Civilization and conduct. She's demonstrated an eagerness and aptitude for confronting and exposing hard-left elitists. It's long past time that we had someone like that at the UN. She's also unabashedly pro-Trump and has been since the beginning. I hope and expect that the combination of Trump's willingness to break things and Stefanik's willingness to deliver the message will result in some beneficial and overdue change in our relationship with this deeply corrupt and anti-Western organization.