This is primary day in New York, as well as other places. While the results come in, here's some exciting news: We cats learned today that Super-Trumpette Elise "Elsie" Stefanik is no longer our Congresswoman.
That's right, we've been redistricted from NY-21 into NY-20. We strolled into the polling place this afternoon fully expecting to vote for one of the guys named Matt who's running to oppose Elsie in November. Instead, our ballot had — gasp! — the name of incumbent Democratic Congressman Paul Tonko, and some other guy.
Mildly embarrassing, since we're supposed to be political mavens. But the New York maps have been such a nightmare this year that we had long since given up trying to figure things out. We had a better handle on what was going on with our State Senate and State Assembly districts than with our federal CD. We assumed we'd be stuck with Elsie.
The new map was a compromise between Ds and Rs, and one of the spoils the Rs got was protection for Stefanik. Devoted Democrats like us being put into Tonko's district makes her (and him) safer. But to be selfish about it, hurray! We cats PURR.
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