Why Mazi Pilip Lost the Special Election in NY Yesterday
Republicans failed to address real grassroots issues
Why did Republican George Santos win by 8 points last year in New York’s 3rd congressional district, but “Republican” Mazi Pilip lost by 8 points just one year later?
Because Santos spoke to grassroots issues - Medical Freedom, Parental Rights, the crisis in our schools and more. Mazi did none of that. TEACHERS FOR CHOICE was unable to endorse her because she did not speak to our issues at all.
We are not at all surprised that Mazi Pilip was beaten badly in yesterday’s special election by Democrat Tom Suozzi. She completely ignored a Medical Freedom survey placed directly in her hands produced by five grassroots groups in New York. Those groups are Autism Action Network, Teachers for Choice, My Kids My Choice, New York Alliance for Vaccine Rights and New York Health Voters.
Mazi didn’t say one word about Medical Freedom!
Then on February 12, the day before the election, a constituent of hers posted an extremely lucid question on her Instagram account. From @ sirpatricklogan on Instagram:
I responded to the comment that I personally, and TEACHERS FOR CHOICE as a group, were extremely disappointed. Mazi’s social media manager DELETED BOTH COMMENTS!
In response to this I posted a reel on Instagram telling all our followers to put Medical Freedom comments all over Mazi’s posts.
The people responded!
Hundreds of comments were put on Mazi’s Instagram and Facebook social media posts, such as these:
This action caught the attention of the Mazi campaign. They ended up making a statement they sent out privately to us and others who requested it, but the statement was only in support of fired NYC workers. No mention of parental rights, mandates for children or exemptions.
Too little, too late.
This morning I spoke to Moms for Liberty Suffolk County Chapter Chair Brianna Richardson. She saw hundreds of comments on social media over the past week that represented a full-blown campaign calling on Long Island Republicans to NOT VOTE AT ALL in the special election.
And that is exactly what happened.
According to Richardson, Republican voters were angry that Mazi didn’t speak to many of the grassroots issues that impact them and their families. Some of those issues include mandated vaccination for kids, medical and religious exemptions, parental rights, DEI initiatives in schools, social transitioning of children in schools without parental knowledge or consent, as well as gender equality in family court (giving dads a fair shot).
“Mazi never mentioned education at all” said Richardson. “Right now parents are in a huge dilemma in New York State with the school systems implementing DEI policies and other equity-based policies that are entirely unfair.”
Many New York Republicans won in the 2022 midterm elections. In fact 4 seats were flipped from Blue to Red, and all of these candidates spoke to the importance of Medical Freedom and Parental Rights.
Those successes came on the back of Lee Zeldin’s historic run for Governor where he received more votes than any Republican candidate in decades. Zeldin spoke with bold support for Medical Freedom. TEACHERS FOR CHOICE endorsed Zeldin big time! We were in the streets with him, at parades, press conferences, handing out flyers, getting grassroots media for him, doing press with him when he requested and more.
And we will do the same for ANY candidate of any party who gives us the support we deserve.
We will not be silent! We will always fight for our rights! It’s time that candidates start representing those who elect them! You work for us not them! We can not continue to go on with government trying to rule over us! You take an Oath to fight and represent your constituents, so do that! We will not coparent with the government, ever! Our fundamental rights as parents will NOT be stripped away.
This is a funny thing. They see us as one issue voters and think that it's not a big deal.
But the issue is SIMPLE TRANSPARENCY AND CIVIL RIGHTS.
That gets votes from many people... but they thought it was a small group before.
I'm not voting for either congresspeople in my area if they both have no stand on medical rights.