Cait Conley on her Campaign to Beat Mike Lawlor and Flip NY's 17th Congressional District

Cait Conley on her Campaign to Beat Mike Lawlor and Flip NY's 17th Congressional District

July 14, 2026 · 32 min · Episode 529

About this episode

Cait Conley discusses her campaign against Mike Lawlor in NY's 17th Congressional District and her plans to address the affordability crisis.

Cait Conley is a fourth-generation Hudson Valley native, daughter of a postal worker and a construction worker, a decorated combat veteran and national security expert. And she’s running for the House in NY’s 17th Congressional district. She recently won the Democratic Party's nomination to face-off against incumbent Republican Rep. Mike Lawlor in New York's 17th Congressional district in the November midterms. Cait and I discuss her campaign, the broken promises and failures of Trump 2.0 and the Republican Party, and her plan to address the affordability crisis facing the working and middle classes. Got somethin' to say?! Email us at BackroomAndy@gmail.com Leave us a message: 845-307-7446 Twitter: @AndyOstroy Produced by Andy Ostroy, Matty Rosenberg, and Jennifer Hammoud @ Radio Free Rhiniecliff Design by Cricket Lengyel

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Host: Andy Ostroy

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Organizations: Democratic Party, Republican Party

Places: Hudson Valley, New York

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