Over 1,500 Long Islanders Sign Petition DEMANDING Rep. LaLota Hold an In-Person Town Hall Meeting
Following Rep. LaLota’s Vote to Endanger Medicare, Medicaid, and Other Vital Programs, Long Islanders Demand Answers
HAUPPAUGE, NEW YORK — Today, over 100 residents of New York’s 1st Congressional District gathered for a rally outside Congressman Nick LaLota’s district office in Hauppauge, NY, demanding that their representative finally hold an in-person town hall meeting and face the constituents he swore to represent. Protestors hand-delivered a petition signed by over 1,500 NY-1 residents echoing their concerns and calling on Rep. LaLota to oppose the recent cuts and indiscriminate firings being enacted by President Trump and Elon Musk’s DOGE.
Over 100 residents of New York’s 1st Congressional District gathered for a rally outside Congressman Nick LaLota’s district office in Hauppauge, NY. | CREDIT: Empire State Voices
“I’m disgusted about all of it,’” said Mike Dolber, a retired teacher and former local union president with NYSUT. “My wife passed away seven years ago of a degenerative neurological disease, and at the end, she was on home hospice, entirely covered and paid for by Medicare: therapists, nurse, all of it. With the cuts that they’re making, if they start damaging Medicare and Medicaid, a lot of people are going to die.”
Last month, Congressman LaLota voted for the House GOP’s budget resolution, which authorized committees to cut up to $2 trillion in funding from federal programs and services to pay for tax breaks for corporations and the wealthy. While Rep. LaLota released an ad—paid for with taxpayer dollars—claiming that the plan protects Medicaid, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has found that the resolution’s goals will be impossible to achieve without steep cuts to either Medicare or Medicaid.
Congressman LaLota voted for the House GOP’s budget resolution, which authorized committees to cut up to $2 trillion in funding from federal programs and services. | CREDIT: Empire State Voices
Below is a copy of the petition delivered to Congressman LaLota’s office, signed by over 1,500 of his constituents:
PETITION TO CONGRESSMAN LALOTA
Dear Congressman LaLota: The undersigned are constituents of your Congressional district, NY CD-1, and we ask you, as our representative in Congress, to uphold your oath to protect and defend the Constitution AND REPRESENT US by publicly committing to take the following steps:
Hold a public town hall open to all your constituents to address their questions and concerns in light of the unprecedented actions of Elon Musk and the Trump Administration;
Assert Congress’s authority to fund federal programs by calling for Pres. Trump to unfreeze federal funds allocated to federal projects, and in particular those that impact our district, such as funding for the Northport VA, Stony Brook University, Brookhaven and Cold Spring Harbor labs, Long Island Cares and a multitude of other organizations;
Protect the jobs of federal employees who live and work in this district and whose salaries keep our local economy going, such as employees at the Northport VA and the federal offices in Central Islip, by demanding enforcement of civil service laws and publicly rejecting attempts by Elon Musk and DOGE to lay them off in order to “save” money for tax cuts for billionaires;
Bar Musk from access to financial systems and personal information without proper security clearance and Congressional oversight;
Demand Trump, Musk and Vance follow court orders and uphold the rule of law to avoid a constitutional crisis;
Pledge to vote against the proposed SAVE Act, which requires in-person voter registration and could bar married women who legally take their husbands’ last names from voting.
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