Texas Congresswoman Beth Van Duyne clearly appears to have hit a nerve with her full-page newspaper ad offering New York’s finest a safe haven in the Lone Star State.
Mayor Eric Adams criticized her today at his daily briefing, showing the newspaper ad in question and telling her to worry about her own city before going after his.
Van Duyne’s ad, published in The New York Post, read: “Escape New York and move to Texas.”
“You should no longer put your careers and your lives in the hands of politicians who don’t care about you or your families.”
He was referring to repeated attacks on NYPD officers by criminals, many of whom are released hours after being arrested thanks to the city’s lax bail lawyers.
Adams, a former police officer, was outraged.
“Today we had a hire at the New York Post, one of my favorite labor newspapers,” Adams said while holding up a copy of the paper.
The ad published by Representative Beth Van Duyne in the New York Post
New York Mayor Eric Adams showed Duyne’s ad at a press event, stating that New York is a safer city than Dallas, the closest big city to the congresswoman’s district.
Texas Rep. Beth Van Duyne, a Republican who represents the Dallas suburb of Irving, published the ad in a New York City newspaper.
He went on to suggest that Dallas has a higher crime rate than New York, cherry-picking homicide rates and other crime statistics to help his case.
‘What you should do is tell some of your officers to go to Dallas to deal with the violence!’ he raged.
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, such as murder.
Several other Texas cities such as Fort Worth and Plano (a suburb of Dallas) and the border cities of El Paso and Laredo also made the list.
“New York has implemented disastrous policies that are deliberately contrary to law and order and have led to death and destruction,” the Republican congresswoman tweeted Tuesday.
‘In Texas, we support blue and welcome good officers who want to come protect the Lone Star State!’
Reps. Mike Johnson, R-La., Speaker-designate, Beth Van Duyne, R-Texas, left, and Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., are seen on the House floor of the U.S. Capitol before that Johnson would be elected Speaker of the House 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
US Representative Beth Van Duyne (R-TX) yells at US President Joe Biden as he delivers his State of the Union address at the US Capitol in Washington, US, on February 7, 2023.
Duyne’s newsletter also attacked the Big Apple’s lax bail system, which has been blamed for failing to keep bad guys behind bars.
Diller, 31, was an NYPD officer who was allegedly shot and killed by suspect Guy Rivera, 34, on Monday night.
“Their lives do not have to be in danger from violent career criminals who are never locked up,” it reads.
‘You don’t need gangs of illegal immigrant criminals beating you in the streets.
“And you don’t have to feel endlessly insulted by politicians’ budget cuts that defund the police.”
Several immigrants who were 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, has been linked to a repeat offender.
Guy Rivera, 34, previously spent 10 years in prison for various charges, including assault, drug convictions and hate crimes, according to authorities.
The driver has more than 20 priors, including a firearm charge from April 2023, according to a local station.
The newspaper’s ad also includes information on how to apply at 15 police departments in the Dallas area.