OSSINING, NY – In case you missed it, NY-17 congressional candidate Cait Conley appeared on CNN Inside Politics with Dana Bash to talk about the launch of The Hell Cats, political extremism in our executive branch, and her campaign to flip NY-17.
Cait is a West Point graduate and Hudson Valley native who served 16 years in combat, including six overseas deployments as one of the first women officers on the tactical side of a Special Operations unit. She led no-fail missions in North Africa, Iraq, Syria, and Yemen, hunting down some of the world’s deadliest terrorists — not for a party or politician, but for her country she swore to defend.
Now Cait’s running for Congress because making sure America works for working people is a mission we can’t afford to lose, and it’s one Mike Lawler keeps failing on. On CNN, Cait made it clear that she will fight for the Hudson Valley the same way she fought for our country — making sure every family has the stability, security, and opportunity they need to build a better future.
Key Quotes:
On NY-17 congressional race:
- “The reality is he [Mike Lawler] can’t run away from his record. The reality for families here in the Hudson Valley is that since he’s been elected, he has only made it harder for families to put food on the table, a roof over their family’s head, afford healthcare, keep the lights on, or give their kids a better future.”
- “Americans are craving real leadership right now, people who are going to put the country ahead of party and people ahead of politics.”
- “What I hear every single day in New York 17 is affordability. Families are struggling. You’ve got working families who feel like America is no longer working for them. That is what everyone is clamoring for us to stay focused on, because we are not delivering in ways they need us to.”
On Trump’s call to execute national security, Democratic lawmakers:
- “Look, as people who have put our lives on the line time and time again for this country to fight and defend for what America stands for, you’re not going to intimidate us from staying in that fight.”
- “Just as Mark Kelly said and others, this is about who we are as a nation and the values we stand for. For generations, we have made sacrifices to make sure that our political disagreements are solved at the ballot box and through open discourse, not through threats of political violence or intimidation. This is just unacceptable for who we are as a country.”
- “We can’t let this be who we become as America, and we do need to hold the line and say, this has gone too far. The political weaponization of the executive branch has gone too far. To Jo’s point, the American people are sick of it. They want politicians focused on the real problems, not on these distractions.”
About Cait Conley:
Cait Conley is a fourth-generation Hudson Valley native and the daughter of a postal worker and a construction worker. She is a decorated combat veteran and national security expert who has spent her life answering the call to serve. That call began on 9/11, when, as a junior in high school, she watched the Twin Towers fall. The next day, she started the process for applying to West Point — earning acceptance and becoming the first in her family to graduate college and then going on later to attend graduate programs at Harvard and MIT. Cait served 16 years as an active duty Army officer, deploying six times to take down the world’s most dangerous terrorists, and later led counterterrorism efforts on the National Security Council and at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Throughout her career, Cait has been called upon to solve the toughest problem and fix things that are broken. That’s why Cait is running for Congress — to fix a broken system and fight for a better future for New Yorkers.
Learn more about Cait online at CaitConley.com.
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