That red wave you hear everyone talking about?
It might just be a wave of watery tomato sauce.
Representative Sean Patrick Maloney, a Democratic incumbent first elected in 2012, is in a bit of unexpected trouble in his reelection bid.
I'm sure telling his constituents to suck it up and eat canned spaghetti is just the thing to get things back on track.
His Republican opponent, Mike Lawler, pounced on the remark, suggesting that voters might not particularly enjoy eating overcooked pasta.
The Maloney campaign was quick to respond.
Mike, your desperation is showing. Candidates who are winning don't resort to taking things horribly out of context.
Not just "out of context," but "horribly out of context."
Everyone knows that's the worst kind of context to be out of.
I took a look at the video interview to check the context myself.
Here it is, slightly different than you might read elsewhere, as I found some transcription mistakes in other versions.
Q: "What have you done, and what do you plan to do, to help solve our inflation problem."
A: Yeah, well, I grew up in a family where if, you know, the gas price went up, the food budget went down, so by this time of the week we'd be eatin' Chef Boyardee. If, if that budget wasn't gonna change, right? So that's what families have to do.
Eat Chef Boyardee.
"That's what families have to do."
That's horribly in context, I'm afraid.
He did go on to detail his policy solutions most of which involve spending more money because everyone knows that when you have "too much money chasing too few goods," the solution is to spend more too much money.
Mike Lawler in contrast says he will make fighting inflation his number-one priority and points out past inflation-fighting actions he has taken.
In the State Assembly, Mike... created the Blown Tire Tax Credit to give drivers a $1,000 personal tax credit for damage sustained on state and local roads...
Fighting inflation, one flat tire at a time.
Canned spaghetti and auto repair are local bread-and-butter issues, so I'll take no position as to who the good people of New York's 18th Congressional District should support other than encourage voters to seriously consider the alternative.
Franco-American.
