Local Republicans Schedule Fake Migrant Crisis Community Forum In Cheektowaga

AI can’t even come up with this level of stupidity:

The same people crying to anyone who will listen that they don’t have answers are now going to ‘answer’ your questions in some fake community forum in Cheektowaga this week

Erie County Democratic Chairman Jeremy J. Zellner today issued the following statement:

“The fake ‘Migrant Crisis Community Forum’ scheduled for Tuesday in Cheektowaga will be nothing more than a MAGA Republican, Q-Anon conspiracy theorist-led political rally, a desperation move designed to breathe life into the campaigns of candidates who lack all credibility on this or any other issue.

“The guest list is a MAGA Republican who’s who that includes candidates for Cheektowaga town supervisor and the county legislature, along with the Erie County Republican Party Chair and the state Senate minority leader. 

“Do Republicans really believe the public will be fooled by such obvious gaslighting, any more than they were by the AstroTurf outrage we saw at the Cheektowaga Town Board earlier this week?

“And will the media be allowed to observe and ask questions? 

“Not likely, considering that when a reporter asked the GOP county executive candidate for her own plan, she had nothing to say.

“There’s a very simple reason for that: She is completely out of her depth, and she knows it.

“Erie County is facing a very serious challenge, one that requires actual leadership to resolve. It is easy to push conspiracy theories on social media and fan the flames of outrage at a campaign rally; it is much harder to find real solutions to real problems.

“You can be assured that Tuesday’s ‘forum’ will not be about solutions, and all about tearing our community apart for the sake of a few votes.”

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