| FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Ciro Riccardi | ciro@lawlerforcongress.com | (845) 642-6569 Journal News reporter Chris McKenna found Lawler had nothing to do with approving Orangetown’s data centers. Bloomberg and JPMorgan Chase got the go-ahead under Democratic Supervisor Andy Stewart, who now works for Nyack Mayor Joe Rand, Conley’s canvass partner today in Orangeburg, where Stewart approved the building of multiple data centers. Pearl River, NY — October 10, 2026 — Cait Conley keeps telling voters Mike Lawler is the reason Rockland has data centers. Today at 10 a.m. she’ll be in Orangeburg with Nyack Mayor Joe Rand, canvassing on the “effects of unregulated Data Centers in Orangetown.” She might want to read her hometown paper first. Here’s what Chris McKenna of The Journal News found: “There are no obvious links between Lawler and the data centers built in his town. Lawler served on no Orangetown boards that granted approvals for the projects, and he had no say over them as a state assemblyman and then a U.S. House member since 2021.” In fact, some of Conley’s biggest supporters were the ones responsible. In May 2013, Andy Stewart, then Orangetown’s Democratic supervisor, sent a note to residents announcing that Bloomberg was building a $435 million data center in the town’s corporate park, and thanked the town’s engineers and building inspectors for moving it along. Four years later, his Town Board voted unanimously to let JPMorgan Chase build another one. Stewart told the Nyack Free Press that landing the Chase data center was one of the things he was proudest of as supervisor. And, since March of 2022, Andy Stewart has been Nyack’s Village Administrator, the staff job that runs the village day to day and reports directly to the mayor and trustees. The mayor is Joe Rand, also the Democratic candidate for State Senate in the 38th District, and one of Cait Conley’s closest allies. Funny how one of Cait Conley’s strongest supporters is employing the guy who’s responsible for the explosion of data center development, and no wonder she wants to deflect. “Cait Conley has based much of her campaign on a lie, and The Journal News just called her on it,” said Lawler for Congress Campaign Manager Ciro Riccardi. “Mike Lawler never had a say on any of these projects. The guy who did, and who bragged about it, now works for the same mayor Cait is knocking doors with today. So is she going to ask Joe Rand about his village administrator being responsible for the data center development in Orangetown, or is she just going to keep lying to voters?” |
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