GOP Congressman Lee Zeldin launches bid for New York governor, taking aim at Cuomo
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Washington — Republican Congressman Lee Zeldin announced Thursday he is running for governor of New York in 2022, seeking to unseat embattled Governor Andrew Cuomo.
In a series of tweets announcing his run and video rolling out his campaign, Zeldin positioned himself as the candidate who can "bring New York from the brink and return it to glory" after Cuomo's decade in the governor's mansion. "Under Andrew Cuomo, public safety is under attack due to Cuomo's liberal policies like cashless bail and abandoning our police," a narrator states in a video announcing Zeldin's candidacy. "Punishing taxes have devastated New York families and businesses, forcing them to flee Cuomo's New York, and record numbers are leaving New York state."Ashley White received her earliest combat action badge from the United States Army soon after the first lieutenant arrived in Afghanistan. The silver military award, recognizing soldiers who've been personally engaged by an attacker during conflict, was considered an achievement in and of itself as well as an affirming rite of passage for the newly deployed. White had earned it for using her own body to shield a group of civilian women and children from gunfire that broke out in the midst of her third mission in Kandahar province. All of them survived. She never mentioned the badge to anyone in her battalion.