The cracks are showing...we can break this thing.

Can you feel it? The air is cooling, the leaves are turning...and the negative mailers are hitting their peak this week, ripe with lies and noticeable bits of absolute horsepucky. The good news is that they are on the defensive! 

• Mike Lawler hit pieces are being funded by Elon Musk (aka America PAC) and Donald Trump, paying him back for voting to allow the tax breaks and corporate giveaways, looking the other way while the Trump family breaks laws and grifts the public treasure.

• Kevin Byrne hit pieces are being funded by the NY Republican Party, who was paid by Putnam County Republicans, who was paid by Kevin Byrne, who was paid by the Putnam Valley Republicans [all these transactions came within a few days] and they were paid by developers who somehow "just like to play golf here"? Sure, Jackie.  

We just have to keep believing in our candidates and keep doing the work that will help us win, speaking to voters and showing them that it doesn't have to be this way. We have 24 days left so let’s keep pushing through the cracks and break free of these Republican chains in Putnam.

We can do this! Your goal this week: (1) at least one action or contribution and (2) share one of the articles below with your circles.

~Jen Colamonico, Putnam County Democratic Committee Chair

• Troubles are Piling Up for County Executive Candidate Byrne
  (tldr: his Nazi friend is back in the inner circle)

• Yarris Calls Byrne's Budget Address a One Time Band Aid Giveaway (tldr: it's voting time so Byrne is promising a tax break (maybe!) to address his hoarding problem, vs investing it to benefit all of us.)

• Everything that Sarah Bartlett writes in Watching Putnam Valley is high quality journalism - she is exposing some important facts about governing in Putnam Valley - and Putnam County.