Daphne Jordan: A Right-Wing Voting Record That Clearly Places Her Outside Of The Mainstream:
Arch-conservative New York State Senator Daphne Jordan (R), who represents most of the northern stretches of the Hudson Valley region, has maintained a voting record that is so far to the right, it places her out of step with many of her Republican colleagues. (As a matter of fact, in 2019, Jordan was one of only three State Senators to earn a perfect, 100% score from the Conservative Party of New York State.)
Here are just a few of many of Daphne Jordan’s radical positions that are clearly out of step with her constituency in the relatively moderate 43rd District, where enrolled Democrats slightly outnumber Republicans:
- Daphne Jordan was one of only six State Senators to vote against the “boss bill,” which would make it illegal for employers to retaliate against their female employees for having an abortion or using birth control (S 660, 2019).
- Daphne Jordan was also one of only six State Senators that opposed a major campaign finance reform bill closing the infamous “LLC loophole,” which has allowed wealthy individuals to donate unlimited sums of money to political candidates through shell corporations (S 1101, 2019).
- Daphne Jordan was one of only thirteen State Senators that opposed establishing early, in-person voting (S 1102, 2019).
- Daphne Jordan was one of only eleven State Senators that voted against requiring the disclosure of ingredients in women’s hygiene products, including tampons (S 2387, 2019).
- Daphne Jordan voted against closing a loophole that has allowed Pennsylvania gas drillers to dump their toxic fracking waste in our streams, lakes and waterways (S 3392, 2020).
- Daphne Jordan voted against banning toxic (PFAS/PFOA) chemicals from being used in our food packaging (S 8817, 2019).
You can learn even more about Daphne Jordan’s voting record at DoNothingDaphne.com.
Jordan Has No Time For Her Local Constituents, But Somehow Seems To Find The Time To Grandstand For National Media Outlets:
To make matters even worse, during this term, Daphne Jordan didn’t hold a single in-person town hall meeting or public forum with her constituents. In addition, she has continually refused to hold even one debate with her Democratic challenger, even though it has sparked some criticism and controversy. Even so, she somehow found the time to grandstand and generate publicity from several national media outlets last year, including ABC and Fox News, when she promoted her silly and ridiculous bill calling for Upstate New York to secede away from the rest of the state.
To a certain extent, there really is a great degree of irony about Jordan complaining to national media outlets about her constituency being ignored.
Patrick Nelson: A More Moderate, Pragmatic Voice That Will Provide Us With Stronger Representation:
Fortunately, we now have a strong alternative that is running for State Senate this year that will provide our region with more mainstream representation at the state capital in Albany. Democrat Patrick Nelson, a trained biochemist from Saratoga County, is running as a pragmatic, progressive centrist, supporting reproductive choice and environmental causes, while also emphasizing support for some types of fiscal conservatism, including lowering property taxes for homeowners and small businesses. Just recently, Nelson has gained the support of many high-profile state and regional elected officials, including New York State Comptroller Tom Dinapoli, as well as Congressman Antonio Delgado (D-Hudson Valley) and Congressman Paul Tonko (D-Albany/Capital District).
In addition, it could also be argued that the Saratoga area, as well as Rensselaer and Columbia Counties would likely be much better served by electing Nelson to the State Senate, who, as a Democrat would serve in the majority, and thus would sit on more powerful committees and have the ability to obtain substantially more dollars in state grants for the district than the current representative, who is becoming a weak, powerless and irrelevant grand-stander.
From WAMC Northeast Public Radio, October 10, 2020:
“We are underserved, we don’t get the legislative results that we need, we don’t get the resources from the state that our community deserves. So that was the initial reason [to run] back in February but then a global pandemic happened and a massive economic recession. And I think it becomes doubly important that we have a member of the State Senate that can actually get things done,” said (Patrick) Nelson.
Here is Patrick Nelson’s latest television commercial: