Zeldin Calls For Accountability

MASTIC, NY (03/10/2008)(readMedia)-- The endorsed Republican candidate for New York’s First Congressional District today expressed sincere concern for a problem plaguing Long Island’s East End and the “culture of indifference” that both increases the tax burden for citizens and demonstrates utter disregard for our nation’s rule of law.

Responding to a recent Southampton Press article that reported an astounding 70 people living in four houses on Southampton’s North Sea Road, Congressional candidate Lee Zeldin again called for his opponent, Congressman Tim Bishop, to step up, or step down.

“My opponent must immediately retract his recent endorsement of hiring halls. This acceptance is wrong on so many levels,” said Zeldin. “He must take responsibility for doing more to worsen our community’s illegal immigration problem by abandoning our rule of law and promoting conduct which helps enable our illegal immigration problem.”

Bishop recently endorsed the Southampton Hiring Hall. Since the start of the campaign, Zeldin, a lawyer, has expressed firm opposition to rewarding criminal behavior.

“Millions of people are waiting for lawful permission to immigrate to the United States while millions more enter and stay here illegally and Congressman Bishop’s only recent advocacy on record is on behalf of a hiring hall. That is a problem that ignores the fact that our nation is built upon the rule of law,” said Zeldin. “By rewarding criminal behavior, we devalue the rules that govern our society, keeping us safe and preventing hard-working taxpayers from bearing an undue burden.”

Zeldin reiterated his call for Bishop to disavow his endorsement of hiring halls that reward criminal behavior and motivates people to jeopardize their well-being.

Zeldin served as an aide to State Senator Kenneth P. LaValle. The Shirley resident studied at the University at Albany, graduated from Albany Law School, and earned his commission through Army ROTC. He was a paratrooper, prosecutor and magistrate with the 82nd Airborne Division and XVIII Airborne Corps. In the summer of 2006, he was a JAG attorney deployed to Iraq. He is currently an attorney at Raiser & Kenniff on Long Island.

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