Texas Congresswoman Beth Van Duyne clearly appears to have struck a chord with her full-page newspaper ad offering top New Yorkers a safe haven in the Lone Star State.
Mayor Eric Adams criticized her today during his daily briefing, holding up the newspaper ad in question and saying she should worry about her own city before coming after his.
Van Duyne’s ad, published in The New York Post, read: “Escape New York and move to Texas.
“You should stop putting your career and life in the hands of politicians who don’t care about you or your families.”
She was referring to the repeated attacks on NYPD officers by criminals, many of whom are released hours after their arrest thanks to the city’s lax bail lawyers.
Adams, a former cop himself, was furious.
“We had a job application today in the New York Post, one of my favorite working-class newspapers,” Adams said, holding a copy of the newspaper in his hand.
The advertisement posted by Rep. Beth Van Duyne in the New York Post
New York Mayor Eric Adams held up Duyne’s ad at a press event, claiming New York is a safer city than Dallas, the closest major city to the congressman’s district
Texas Rep. Beth Van Duyne, a Republican who represents the Dallas suburb of Irving, took out the ad in a New York City newspaper.
He further suggested that Dallas has a higher crime rate than New York, listing murder rates and other crime statistics to support his case.
“What she should do is tell some of her officers to go to Dallas and deal with the violence!” he smoked.
Irving, Duyne’s district, was named the 14th safest small city in America in 2022 by the FBI, which takes into account all violent crime, not just one metric like homicides.
Several other Texas cities, such as Fort Worth and Plano (a suburb of Dallas) and border cities El Paso and Laredo, also made the list.
“New York has implemented disastrous policies that are deliberately anti-law and order and have led to death and destruction,” the Republican congressman tweeted on Tuesday.”
“In Texas, we support the blue and welcome good officers to come protect the Lone Star State!”
Reps. Mike Johnson, R-La., speaker nominee, Beth Van Duyne, R-Texas, left, and Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., are seen on the House floor of the U.S. Capitol before Johnson was elected chairman of the House of Representatives on Wednesday, October 25, 2023
Rep. Rich McCormick, Cynthia Fisher, Aeisha Reese, Valerie June and Rep. Beth Van Duyne (far right) attend the Power to the Patients event on Tuesday, March 5, 2023 in Washington, DC
U.S. Representatives Beth Van Duyne (R-TX) calls on U.S. President Joe Biden as he delivers his State of the Union address at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., February 7, 2023
Duyne’s bulletin also took shots at the Big Apple’s lax bail system, which has been blamed for failing to keep bad guys behind bars.
Diller, 31, was a New York Police Department officer who was allegedly shot and killed Monday night by suspect Guy Rivera, 34,
“Your life does not have to be in danger from violent career criminals who are never locked up,” it says.
‘You don’t have to be beaten in the streets by gangs of illegal immigrant criminals.
‘And you don’t have to be endlessly insulted by cuts by Defund the Police politicians.’
Several migrants caught on camera beating two New York police officers were arrested and inexplicably released by New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg.
The death of NYPD Officer Jonathan Diller, who was shot during a traffic stop in Far Rockaway, Queens last month, was linked to a repeat offender.
Guy Rivera, 34, previously served 10 years in prison on several charges, including assault, drug convictions and hate crimes, according to authorities.
The driver has more than twenty criminal points, including a weapons charge from April 2023 local station.
The newspaper ad also includes information on how to apply to 15 police departments in the Dallas area.