Northern Exposure - The Reboot. Episode One: Elise's Vanishing Act

News From A Leaker Inside Stefanik’s Camp

Congresswoman Elise Stefanik—you know, the one who pirouetted from moderate Republican ingénue to full-throated MAGA maven—hasn't graced her own constituents with an actual town hall since the halcyon days of 2018. Seven years. And yesterday's crowd in Plattsburgh, to honor former Clinton County Clerk John Zurlo, is the exact reason why.

In better days when she was in Trump's good graces, she was collecting leadership titles like knock-off Hermès scarves and was looking forward to being "paroled" from her district (not my term, BTW). But as we all know, the gig that she'd been angling for—that plum UN ambassadorship—didn't work out. Even then in better days, her actual voters have been left talking to poster boards. Literally. The optics of Indivisible ADK having to prop up a photograph of their representative and direct their questions to that. It's giving "Weekend at Bernie's" meets C-SPAN vibes. The waters have been choppy for Stefanik for a while now but now she’s finding herself i…