To the editor:

Elsie Stefanik came to the North Country to run for Congress and then voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act, which, among its many other adverse effects on people, would have left over 60,000 people up here without medical insurance including those with pre-existing conditions.

Tedra Cobb came to the North Country 30 years ago for college and remained here to raise her family. She served in the county legislature for eight years, and this is where she and her husband now run small businesses.

Elsie Stefanik is running political advertisements on television with well over $1 million from political action committees and over three-quarters of her funds from outside this congressional district. These ads are being used to attack Tedra Cobb, referring to claims she “raised taxes as a county legislator over 20 times” and about serving on a “Cuomo” open government committee. The claims made by Elsie Stefanik have been called false by North Country Public Radio as well as three regional newspapers.

Tedra Cobb is using much of her three-quarters of a million dollars, close to 90 percent of which was raised from individuals, almost all within the state, for ads about her values and ties to neighbors in the North Country. You can compare the candidates as they really are.

Every time you see one of these false attack ads on TV that features a distorted image of Tedra Cobb, we hope you will recall the motto of West Point: “We neither lie, steal nor cheat, nor tolerate those who do.”

We urge you to support Tedra Cobb for Congress in any way you can, and to vote for her on Election Day, Nov. 6.

Richard and Joan Kelly

Lake Placid