Democratic congressional candidate Mike Derrick's campaign reiterated Derrick's stance on a previous defense bill veto in regard to a new veto threat from the Obama administration.
The campaign of U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-Willsboro, on Tuesday, issued a press release about published reports that the Obama administration has a strategy to veto the defense bill.
"The Obama administration should stop stop playing partisan politics at the Pentagon," the press release stated.
The press release asked if Derrick would support the President's veto.
Derrick has said of Obama's previous veto of a defense bill that the veto resulted in better over all legislation.
In a press release responding to the Stefanik campaign, the Derrick campaign said, "This attack is unfortunately just more empty, partisan rhetoric from Congresswoman Stefanik ...,"
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Asked for a specific position on the potential veto, Drew Prestridge, Derrick campaign manager, said, "To her question, as it says in the statement, Mike Derrick will not put party or politics over principles like national security."
Prestridge later said referred The Post-Star to Derrick's response to the 2015 veto, which can be viewed here.
Derrick, a retired Army colonel from Peru, in Clinton County, is running in the 21st Congressional District against Stefanik and Green Party candidate Matt Funiciello, a bread company owner and political activist from Hudson Falls.
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