Updated at 1:10 p.m. to clarify Jennie Bacon sent the statement as corresponding secretary for the St. Lawrence County Democratic Committee.

St. Lawrence County Democrats are endorsing statewide calls for North Country Rep. Elise Stefanik’s resignation.

On Tuesday, Jan. 5, Jennie Bacon, corresponding secretary for the county Democratic Committee and a Democratic State Committee member representing the 116th District, emailed a statement from Jay S. Jacobs, chairman of the New York State Democratic Committee, to the local press.

Bacon, is also St. Lawrence County Democratic Election Commissioner, but she did not send the statement in that capacity.

The statement calls on Stefanik to resign after she came out in support of efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

Jacobs’s statement says:

"I am today calling for the resignation from office of Congresswoman Elise Stefanik (R-Schuylerville). In my more than 19 years as a party chairman I cannot remember a time that I have called upon a Republican or Democratic official to resign – even when under indictment – as I have always felt that one is innocent until proven guilty. Through her statement today indicating her intention to support the effort to contest the legitimately certified electors in the 2020 Presidential race, Congresswoman Stefanik has thrown in her lot with those colleagues who seek to violate their Constitutional oath to “protect and defend” the Constitution by seeking to overthrow the legitimately elected incoming President of the United States."

"Congresswoman Stefanik knows that there are no ‘contested electors’ for her to oppose as every state, under their Constitutional obligation, has certified the legitimacy of the electors now being sent to the Congress. Similarly, she knows that there has not been presented any unrefuted and discredited evidence of any massive voter fraud in any state that she is going to challenge. She knows that there are no ‘serious questions’ as to the legitimacy of the electors that she will seek to challenge. Her statement alleging that she is seeking to defend democracy is a sham – and she knows it, thus violating her oath of office. By her own words, she has discredited the office that she holds, has violated the oath that she has taken and has embarrassed the district and entire state that she purports to serve."