{"id":323973,"date":"2026-08-18T12:50:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T12:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/323973\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T12:50:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T12:50:16","slug":"rep-mike-lawler-slams-new-york-democrat-over-shoplifting-comments-warns-of-rising-socialism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/323973\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Mike Lawler slams New York Democrat over shoplifting comments, warns of rising socialism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dek\">\n              Rep. Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., joins \u2018Mornings with Maria\u2019 to discuss socialism\u2019s rise among Democrats, New York electricity costs, nuclear power and the data center fight.\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"dek long-dek\">New York Congressman Mike Lawler joins \u2018Mornings with Maria\u2019 to criticize Assemblywoman Emily Gallagher&#8217;s defense of shoplifting as a &#8216;biological need.&#8217; Lawler warns against the rise of Democratic socialism as Florida holds its primary. He also slams Democratic energy policies, citing a 20 percent spike in electricity bills after the closure of the Indian Point nuclear plant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rep. Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., joins \u2018Mornings with Maria\u2019 to discuss socialism\u2019s rise among Democrats, New York electricity costs,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323974,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10],"class_list":["post-323973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}