{"id":1927662,"date":"2023-05-09T21:42:03","date_gmt":"2023-05-10T01:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wicked-whitmer-of-the-east-gretchens-sister-enters-new-york-congressional-race\/"},"modified":"2023-05-09T21:44:45","modified_gmt":"2023-05-10T01:44:45","slug":"wicked-whitmer-of-the-east-gretchens-sister-enters-new-york-congressional-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wicked-whitmer-of-the-east-gretchens-sister-enters-new-york-congressional-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Gretchen&#8217;s sister runs for Congress in New York as &#8220;Wicked Whitmer of the East&#8221;."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwicked-whitmer-of-the-east-gretchens-sister-enters-new-york-congressional-race%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1927662&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Michigan Governor&#8217;s Sister Announces Run for New York Congressional Seat<\/h2>\n<h3>Boost for New York Democrats, but Baggage Comes with Whitmer Connection<\/h3>\n<p>Liz Gereghty, the sister of Democratic Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer, has announced her candidacy for the New York congressional seat that Democrat Sean Patrick Maloney narrowly lost in November 2020. The seat is currently held by freshman representative Mike Lawler (R.), who unseated Maloney, then-chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.<\/p>\n<p>Gereghty&#8217;s connection to a powerful national figure in the party could be a boost to New York Democrats, who bore the party&#8217;s worst defeats in the 2022 midterms. However, the Whitmer connection also brings baggage. The governor has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lincoln-projects-tweets-of-private-dms-not-a-violation-twitter-says\/\" title=\"Lincoln Project\u2019s Tweets of Private DMs Not a Violation, Twitter Says\">faced widespread criticism<\/a> for her handling of the pandemic, particularly for lockdowns of schools and businesses. Michigan churches sued Whitmer in 2020 for a lockdown that the groups said violated the First Amendment. In March, Whitmer conceded that her lockdowns &#8220;in retrospect don&#8217;t make a lot of sense.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gereghty&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wicked-whitmer-of-the-east-gretchens-sister-enters-new-york-congressional-race\/\" title=\"Gretchen's sister runs for Congress in New York as \"Wicked Whitmer of the East\".\">campaign announcement called<\/a> out &#8220;extreme Republican leaders.&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Today, extreme Republican leaders in Congress\u2014enabled by the current 17th District Congressman\u2014are threatening our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/christian-family-adoption-agency-not-required-to-offer-services-to-unmarried-or-same-sex-couples-judge\/\" title=\"Christian Family Adoption Agency Not Required To Offer Services To Unmarried Or Same-Sex Couples: Judge\">core rights<\/a>, our safety and our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/labor-nominee-dismisses-job-losses-from-bidens-economic-plan\/\" title=\"Labor Nominee Dismisses Job Losses from Biden\u2019s Economic Plan\">economic future<\/a>,&#8221; Gereghty said, pointing to abortion as an example.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Maloney was the first DCCC chair to lose a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sidney-powell-is-an-american-legal-giant\/\" title=\"Sidney Powell Is an American Legal Giant\">reelection bid<\/a> in four decades, falling short by less than 2,000 votes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer\u2019s sister announced she will run for the New York congressional seat that Democrat Sean Patrick Maloney narrowly lost last November.\u00a0 Whitmer&#8217;s sister Liz Gereghty on Tuesday announced her run for the seat, currently held by freshman representative Mike Lawler (R.), who unseated Maloney, then-chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Commitee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1613,"featured_media":1927663,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[4402,4186,26293,4296,5712,12025,10915,3859],"class_list":["post-1927662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-congress","tag-east","tag-gretchens","tag-runs","tag-sister","tag-whitmer","tag-wicked","tag-york"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1613"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1927662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1927663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1927662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1927662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1927662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}