Rep. Lawler Fielded Sock Puppet Provocateur at Raucous Town Hall

This is my new official, official story. It comes from the newspaper News, which covers three suburban counties just north of New York, and it is the member of the local Congress Mike Lawler (R) and a noisy town hall that I really covered in May. It turns out that at this town hall, its deputy director of the district, Erin Crowley, simultaneously patrol the noisy voters who had presented themselves to express their opposition while apparently aggravating the anti-Lawler crowd to disturb the town hall using a false identity known as “Jake Thomas”.

The newspaper News takes care to note that it is impossible to definitively prove that “Jake Thomas” is Erin Crowley – who is also the county legislator in addition to being Lawler’s staff. But they have difficult proof that “Jake Thomas” used Crowley’s mobile phone when “He” joined an anti-Lie Facebook group and the signal group he uses and used during the May town hall.

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