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Mathgate: New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio Caught in Massive Grade Fraud Scandal

by Deroy Murdock and Charles Vavruska
As published in The American Spectator

Photo credit: The American Spectator

As education-reform activists prepare to demonstrate at New York’s City Hall on Wednesday, a massive grade-fraud scandal has been exposed in America’s largest public-school system. SOS NYC, an organization that fights the under-education of Gotham’s children, released middle-school ratings using its nascent School Grade Fraud Index (SGFI). The Index divides the percentage of a school’s students who pass their math classes by the percentage of students who pass their New York State math tests. The higher the Index, the greater the fraud. If 100 percent of a middle school’s students pass their math classes and 100 percent of students also pass the state math test, the school would have an SGFI of 1.0. Conversely, if 100 percent of students passed their math classes, but only 1 percent of students passed the state exam, the school’s Index would be 100.

SOS NYC found one Bronx middle school, P.S/I.S. 224, in which 93.5 percent of students passed their math classes, but only 2 percent passed the state math exam. This yielded an SGFI of 46.75.

New York’s five worst schools, by this measure, include P.S./I.S. 224, three others in the Bronx, and one in Manhattan:

  • The Bronx’s Academy for College Preparation had a math-class-pass rate of 90 percent, but only 4 percent passed the state math test, yielding an SGFI of 22.5.
  • The Bronx’s East Fordham Academy for the Arts: Class rate – 80.3 percent, test rate – 4 percent, SGFI – 20.08.
  • The Bronx’s Academy of Public Relations: Class rate – 97 percent, test rate – 5 percent, SGFI – 19.4.
  • Eagle Academy for Young Men of Harlem: Class rate – 93.9 percent, test rate – 5 percent, SGFI – 18.78.
  • Two dozen schools have SGFIs above 10.0. The best of these is Brooklyn’s P.S. 308: Class rate – 70.5 percent, test rate – 7 percent – SGFI 10.07.

Campuses with the highest SGFI scores are concentrated in The Bronx, Upper Manhattan, Central Brooklyn, and Southern Queens — all predominately black and Hispanic communities. SOS NYC’s 3-D heat map represents each middle school’s fraud index with a colored bar. The redder and taller the bar, the higher the index. Thus, a map of the Bronx is clogged with statistical red skyscrapers.

Thousands of NYC students are graduating high school without the academic skills to be “college ready.” A majority of Gotham’s eighth graders lack the foundational education to study a rigorous high-school curriculum. Bronx ninth graders try to learn math from Dan Fendel’s Interactive Mathematics Program Year 1. It contains only one equation and zero “solve for X” problems. But this textbook is stuffed with social-justice propaganda. One homework assignment involves graphing Native American Indian acreage versus how much time it took to break treaties and force these indigenous people from their land. Another assignment explains how to divide supplies with a family of escaped slaves.

“How much longer are we going to permit the NYC Department of Education and NYC Mayor to pull the wool over our eyes when it comes to the education of our children?” demanded activist Katherine James, a three-term former school board member from southern Queens, where grade fraud is pervasive. Her recent e-mail to fellow education reformers included this battle cry: “Join with others to take the crucial action required to correct this plague rampant in our public schools. Do not permit our children and families to continue to be victims of fraudulent reports perpetrated by government leaders in NYC. Save Our Schools/Save Our Children! End the School-to-Riker’s-Island Pipeline Now!” (Riker’s Island is the Big Apple’s largest local prison.)

Little if any of this has registered with Mayor Bill de Blasio (D-New York). He has been busy lately, running for president. He had breakfast in April with a whopping seven Democrat leaders in Pahrump, Nevada. Earlier, he told voters in Las Vegas that he wants a “program of actual redistribution which includes much heavier taxes on the wealthy.”

Too bad de Blasio doesn’t move permanently into Sin City’s New York-New York Hotel & Casino. That might stymie his anti-meritocratic bid to scrap the Specialized High Schools Admissions Test (SHSAT) for Bronx Science, Brooklyn Tech, Stuyvesant, and other high-performance Specialized High Schools. Ironically, de Blasio has proposed admission standards that rely heavily on middle-school grades. Since few children on campuses with rampant grade fraud enter these beacons of opportunity, one wonders if de Blasio is changing their admission criteria to cover up his failures nearly everywhere else.

De Blasio also is embroiled in scandal over his mismanagement of the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA). In January, U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson ordered a U.S. Court monitor to settle federal litigation over the quixotic presidential aspirant’s spectacularly deceitful abuse of NYCHA’s 392,259 public-housing residents.

This suit was triggered by de Blasio’s bogus “lead-paint inspections.” With de Blasio at the helm, HUD ordered NYC to test public-housing units for lead. NYC failed to conduct those tests, then lied to Washington about the tests it never performed. If de Blasio used the same fraud he is pulling in NYC’s schools, he could have abandoned traditional lead tests and, instead, allowed inspectors to give buildings passing grades, despite their failing marks.

De Blasio’s vicious fraud against the children of NYCHA will have lifelong consequences. As the de Blasio administration’s analysis eventually conceded, “1,160 children living in public housing have tested positive for lead poisoning since 2012,” theNew York Post reported. “NYCHA has come under scrutiny since [2017], when it was revealed that the agency failed to conduct required lead inspections since 2013 (the year de Blasio was elected) and lied to the feds about it.” The Post added, “Since then, Mayor de Blasio’s Health Department has repeatedly revised its figures on lead-poisoning cases, previously citing just 820 positive tests and, before that, acknowledging a mere 19.” If this is how Gotham’s slumlord-in-chief treats overwhelmingly Democrat, low-income, blacks and Hispanics — his political base — what’s in store for his enemies?

Rather than improve the health and education of local children, de Blasio just launched a jihad against glass-and-steel skyscrapers, all to battle ever-elusive “global warming.” This boneheaded move would be like the mayor of Venice banning canals, filling them with cement, and converting them into bike lanes.

“The power of [mayoral control] is, everyone here, and all the parents of New York City, get to hold me accountable,” de Blasio told state lawmakers in Albany in February, while lobbying to extend his grip on local schools. For once, the “Dope from Park Slope” got it right. City parents need to hold him accountable for his epic fails on education. Alas, most parents are unaware of their children’s under-education until it’s too late, due to fraudulent report cards. De Blasio and Richard Carranza, his equity obsessed De-education Chancellor, must end this duplicity so city parents can keep their feet to the fire. Maybe then, New York City’s government-school students will have a fair shot at the American Dream.

Deroy Murdock is a Manhattan-based Fox News contributor and contributing editor with National Review Online. Charles Vavruska is a New York City-based parent activist and evangelist for the local Specialized High School Admissions Test.


Video: Dr. Lester Jackson Presentation on “Equal Justice for Victims” and Follow-Up

April 4, 2019 General Club Meeting featured a presentation by Dr. Lester Jackson, author of “Equal Justice for Victims: A Blueprint for the Rightful Restoration of Capital Punishment,” speaking on the topic: The Slaughter of 870,000 Innocent, Law-Abiding People in the United States During the Last 47 years: Why It Happened and How to Stop It.


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Follow-up to the April 4th Presentation
by Lester Jackson PhD

NOTE: Regrettably, due to technical and time constraints, I was unable to provide a complete presentation in the manner I would have preferred. Accordingly, I thank QVGOP President Phil Orenstein for graciously allowing me to post the following supplemental comments, links and additional largely unknown shocking examples from my book, Equal Justice for Victims. The numbers in parentheses refer to pages in the book. Please contact me at ljackson@justice.com with any comments or questions you might have. If you wish to purchase the book, also please contact me directly.                –Lester Jackson, PhD.

Coker v. Georgia
       1. For those who can’t believe what I said (that people who believe in “unharmful” rape can end up on the highest court in the country), here are links to the official US Reports pages: Rape unharmful?Mrs Carver was unharmed” vs. Dissent by Chief Justice Burger: “This bifurcation of rape into categories of harmful and non-harmful eludes my comprehension.”

       2. In a major blow against representative self-government (one of many; see: 170, 195-207), the Supreme Court seized power from 300 million Americans to decide what punishments for violent crimes are “acceptable”: “the Constitution contemplates that in the end our own judgment [i.e., the judgment of any five lawyers who, by sheer chance, happened to land on the Supreme Court] will be brought to bear on the question of the acceptability of the death penalty under the Eighth Amendment.”
           (a) 31 years later, Justice Scalia observed:  “Of course the Constitution contemplates no such thing….” He added that the Framers would have scornfully laughed at any such claim.

      3. Coker v. Georgia dishonestly usurped the people’s genuine and “most fundamental” Constitutional right to representative self-government (195) by fantasizing a fairy tale “Constitutional right” to immunity from any and all punishment for the most “depraved human beings like Coker” (192, 312).

      4. Coker v. Georgia is discussed repeatedly in my book. See especially page 178n, which summarizes why Coker v. Georgia is one of the most dishonest, anti-woman, pro-criminal, anti-victim, anti-public safety and anti-Constitutional decisions ever handed down by the Supreme Court.

      5. When Coker was decided, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was still a practicing lawyer. She filed a brief on behalf of rapist-murderer Coker, arguing that it was unconstitutional to punish him for the violent rape of Mrs. Carver. (191)  In 2008, Ginsburg provided the fifth vote to unconstitutionally declare unconstitutional the death penalty for 300-pound men who rape 8-year-old girls.

     So much for the feminist claptrap that women will stand up for the interests of women. Ginsburg herself has argued for an all-female Supreme Court (306n) and has pretended to be a leading feminist. Three consistently anti-rape victim justices on today’s Court are females: Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan. For more on Ginsburg and Sotomayor, see here and here, as well as the book index.

PROTECTING CRIMINALS AT EXPENSIVE OF SAFETY OF THE LAW-ABIDING PUBLIC

            The so-called “exclusionary rule” was not applied even to the federal government until 1914, 123 years after the Bill of Rights was ratified. However, because most violent crimes are prosecuted in state courts, that was not a major threat to public safety. The major Supreme Court assault against the Constitution and the safety of decent, law abiding people did not come until 1961. Twelve years after rejecting a bid to protect the worst clearly guilty criminals, a slim pro-criminal majority finally applied the “exclusionary rule” to the states. This rule is familiar to all Law and Order fans; motions to suppress proof of guilt are a staple of that series.

           Remember, evidence that is fake, irrelevant or unreliable always has been disallowed. It is only evidence that is reliable, relevant and probative of guilt that gets “suppressed” under the exclusionary rule. So if the police make a mistake and barge into a home lacking evidence of a crime, the only recourse is to sue the police – or, more accurately, their employers, the taxpayers. It is only guilty, often depraved criminals who receive from the Supreme Court the extra reward of having evidence of their guilt thrown out. Those really punished for police mistakes are the next victims of violent criminals turned loose on orders from the Supreme Court.

There has been no blinking the consequences. The criminal is to go free because the constable has blundered.”—Benjamin Cardozo, 1926

In 1949, Justice Felix Frankfurter, wrote for the Supreme Court in Wolf v. Colorado:  “exclusion of evidence … serves only to protect those upon whose person or premises something incriminating has been found.” Innocent people whose privacy has been violated may sue the taxpayers for any “official lawlessness” of their employees, the police, but they cannot reap the special court-created benefit of being freed despite clear proof of guilt of the most brutal crimes. It is the future victims of clearly guilty freed barbarians who are punished, not the police. 
In 1961, Frankfurter’s position was rejected by a bare majority of five justices dishonestly contending that the exclusionary rule protected “all persons.” Even the next victims of freed clearly guilty violent criminals? 

As recently as three years ago, Justices Kagan and Ginsburg touted the alleged “societal benefits” of the exclusionary rule’s “crucial function—to deter unconstitutional police conduct.” However, long ago, Sidney Hook pointed out (127, 207) what is obvious to all but activist political Supreme Court justices: most people are far more likely to be victims than criminals and, hence, far more likely to fear criminals far more than the police.

IMMIGRATION AND CRIME   

When an alien enters the United States in violation of this country’s criminal laws, he or she is, by definition, a criminal. That itself is sufficient reason to keep out criminal illegals.

However, President Trump has argued forcefully that illegals commit murders out of all proportion to their numbers. That is true. But I stress this point. Over 95% of murders in the United States have been and are committed by home grown barbarians. The real problem, as I pointed out in my April 4 presentation, is that right now anyone contemplating murder is comforted by a pro-murderer ruling class that has spared no effort to assured homicidal Americans that they have a 99.83% chance of robbing innocent people of their lives without sacrificing their own.

Unless the remedies proposed in my book (Part III) are adopted, this will not change. As a talking point to stem the invasion by illegal immigrants, President Trump is correct to use the threat to public safety posed by illegal immigrants. However, no one should think that the murders will miraculously stop without exposing and taking on the dishonest, pro-murderer, fanatic federal judges who protect murderers.

I discuss this point in greater detail here and here.

SAFETY IN NUMBERS—FOR THE MOST DEPRAVED. (328)

(1) As the number and severity of depraved acts by a single miscreant goes up, his “eligibility” for punishment goes down. Obviously, this is contrary to the widely-held commonsense view that a bad criminal record should increase rather than reduce punishment for a crime.

(2) Justices require that every convicted murderer be individually considered as a “dignified” human being, but also that his individual depravity must be ignored as the number of other individuals who have committed the same depraved act goes up. In other words, as the number of individuals who commit the same act grows, the lower the “eligibility” for harsh punishment for that act goes down, lest we subject too many of them to harsh punishment.

$100 reward for anyone who can find a “safety in numbers” clause in the U.S. Constitution!!

Although dishonest pro-murderer Supreme Court justices lie one way and then another about the Constitution,  law and facts, they have one clearly consistent guiding principle: select whatever lie about facts or law will save the life of anyone convicted of barbaric violence against one or more innocent human beings.  (250-252)

Why capital punishment should be imposed on ALL convicted intentional murderers. (book, 138-155)

What Can Be Done

This no place for detailed repetition of Part III of my book. But I do stress that, contrary to what many believe, no constitutional amendment is necessary. (219-221) Congress and the President already have ample, indeed overwhelming, Constitutional powers to deal with dishonest and arrogant politician judges. The central problem is not a lack of Constitutional power but a lack of will power. The most daunting task is not to add to unused immense existing powers but to give Congress and the President the backbone to use those powers.

Constitutional Powers of Congress

These are four key relevant provisions of the United States Constitution:

  • I-9-7: No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by law.
  • I-8-9: The Congress shall have Power … To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court. [Emphasis added.]
  • III-1: The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish. The Judges, both of the supreme and inferior Courts, shall hold their Offices during good Behaviour, and shall, at stated Times, receive for their Services, a Compensation, which shall not be diminished during their Continuance in Office. [Emphasis added.]
  • III-2-2: In all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party, the supreme Court shall have original Jurisdiction. In all the other Cases before mentioned, the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make. [Emphasis added.]

These provisions are listed and explained at pages 215-219.

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Generating Will Power to use Constitutional Powers

       Many commentators, if not most, believe good judicial appointments (208-213) will solve the problem of dishonest and arrogant judges. That is a pipedream (here). Chief Justice John Roberts long ago proved himself to be a dishonest politician. (Book, 39,103, 109, 187, 236-237; here and here) Justice Neil Gorsuch, much-lauded by President Trump, joined four pro-criminal leftist politician justices to save from deportation a criminal so bad that even the Obama Administration wanted to throw him out of the country. Gorsuch has been described by a front-line immigration official as a justice who “think[s] too much [but] know[s] too little.” Finally, Brett Kavanaugh’s first decision was to vote in favor of Planned Parenthood, the far-left corrupt organization that spent millions to smear him.

         No, while judicial appointments are important , they will not undo the damage already done. (221-227) What must be done is to publicly delegitimize the judiciary (174ff., esp 193, 195ff), especially the Supreme Court, by publicizing (201) outrageous examples, such as those on the following page.

SUPREME COURT: SHOCKINGLY UNBELIEVABLE EXAMPLES

[Numbers in parentheses refer to pages in book, Equal Justice for Victims.]

THE REAL MEANING of “EQUAL JUSTICE UNDER LAW” inscribed at the top of US Supreme Court Building: ONE MURDERER’S LIFE IS WORTH FAR MORE THAN 584 TIMES THE LIFE OF HIS VICTIM;  ONE LAW-ABIDING INNOCENT VICTIM’S LIFE IS WORTH FAR LESS THAN 0.17% OF MURDERER’S LIFE. (Explained: 93-96, 149)

Although the US Supreme Court calls its home America’s Temple of Justice, it is really America’s Temple of INjustice. (Cover, 217-218)

The media-concealed truth about dishonest protection of convicted intentional murderers by Supreme Court, which tortures victims and needlessly causes new violent crimes including rapes and murders. (Entire book)

Brazenly dishonest pro-murderer and pro-rapist US Supreme Court justices manipulate language. (252-256) For example:

   (1) the same justices label as “adults” 16-year-old rape victims and 13-year-old pregnant girls (sufficiently “mature” to make abortion decision independently), but designate murderers nearly 18 and even 19 as “children” too immature to understand the immorality, unlawfulness and punishment for carefully planned premeditated murder. (189, 253, 327-328)

   (2) to save the life of a person sentenced to death for depravity, he will either be viewed or not viewed as a “dignified” human being endowed with the humanity of an individual. (251)

A US Sup Ct “feminist” justice unapologetically defended arguing that, due to treatment of women half way round the world in Bangladesh, an escaped convicted rapist/ murderer should not be punished for raping a 16-year-old 3 weeks after giving birth!! (191-192)

Lester Jackson greatly reveres the late Justice Antonin Scalia. Yet he is highly critical of the late great justice. (69-74, 221-226, 196-200)

Pro-murderer United States Supreme Court justices express great passion for brutal convicted murderers but do not think murder victims are worth mentioning at all (190, 260)

A Supreme Court justice argues that Western Civilization depends on lawyers and judges. (334)

A fanatic pro-murderer United States Supreme Court justice seems to think monkey wrenches are parts of monkeys. (92)

Lester Jackson’s EQUAL JUSTICE for VICTIMS explains how five US Supreme Court justices were a major cause of the rapid and massive increase in illegal immigration; and four justices want to give special rights to convicted foreign born murderers that American born murderers do not have. (342-343)

Delusional death penalty “opponents” do NOT really oppose capital punishment. Lester Jackson explains why opposition is impossible in EQUAL JUSTICE for VICTIMS. The real issue is NOT WHETHER the death penalty should exist BUT WHO should receive it: convicted murderers or innocent, decent law-abiding people. (9)


RHA: How Far is Too Far?

This law is an abomination that cries out to heaven for justice. We need to do everything in our power to appeal RHA. We have to remember that elections have consequences. If we don’t speak up for the voiceless, who will?


Be a Gladiator, not a Spectator!

Republican District Leader candidates take a bow at the Lincoln Dinner

President Trump’s job approval numbers recently soared to 93% in the Republican Party and 53% overall. The poll numbers reflect our president’s growing popularity and power, as well as the astounding resurgence of American patriotism and the glory of the Republican Party. He fights day and night for the greatness of America, fulfilling his promises for a booming economy, winning trade deals, safety of the American people, border security, putting America First, and peace through strength with our global allies.

We proudly stand with our president with our rallying cry #OnwardTo2020 as we reveled in President Trump’s momentous victory on “No Collusion Day” at our Lincoln Dinner last month. We celebrated the promise that it’s a great time to be a Republican in New York!

This is the most critical time in American politics to be engaged and involved toward 2020 as we continue to affirm that elections have consequences, voting matters, and that “all politics is local.” Our Lincoln Dinner Sanctity of Life honoree, Cathy Donohoe articulated this message brilliantly on the front page of this newsletter about the abominable RHA bill which was voted into law as soon as the Democrats took control of the New York State Legislature in January after last year’s Election Day shellacking.

We are now in the process of rebuilding the Republican Party organization from the grassroots county committee level. We need a strong unified organization in order for our voices to have an influence in our communities, to win elections, and for our ideals to become the law in New York.

We are asking you to get involved. Everyone is busy but if we Republicans all do our part and get involved to the extent that we can, we can change the direction of our city and state.  Building a strong effective Party organization is the only way. Otherwise NYC, now a one-party town, hijacked by the radical left, will fall into ruin and chaos.

We all know what’s wrong, as we spend endless days and hours grumbling about the leftwing socialist direction of our city and state, and even contemplating moving out of New York. We know the Democrat Party has been taken over by the radical left. The State government is now in Democrat hands and already passing extreme progressive legislation every day that is destroying us and trashing our values. The middle class is set to be taxed out of existence. Congestion pricing is now in effect. The SHSAT is about to be abolished. Soaring minimum wages are killing small businesses. Plastic bags will soon be banned and paper bags taxed. Democrat lawmakers in Albany granted free college education for illegal aliens and rejected free SUNY tuition for Gold Star families, and on and on.

The Republican Party is the only organized movement that can fight back against the rising tide of the progressive left, challenge their radical policies and give people a voice.  That’s why we’re rebuilding the Republican Party in 2019, the year of reorganization of our party.

The current Queens County Republican Party is weak and dysfunctional. We need to clean it up and build a new effective party organization from the grassroots level up. They have not won elections in a long time and it’s time for a change in leadership. We are building a strong foundation based upon honesty, hard work, loyalty, and dedication to our righteous principles and values.

The Democrat Party and Labor Unions all have been effective in recruiting and mobilizing their fellow activists to unite and achieve their objectives. Similarly, the Republican Party needs to mobilize, recruit and organize in order to achieve our common goals. We can do it!

At our Lincoln Dinner we celebrated the new Republican warriors, our Republican District Leader candidates from all across Queens County who will be running in the Primary Elections on June 25th. They have been spending their days and nights for the past several weeks petitioning, knocking on doors, living on coffee and donuts and little sleep, mobilizing fellow Republican patriots and building a great new grassroots organization. Join them! Support them! Only we Republicans can fight and win for the people. Be a “gladiator, not a spectator!”

Liberty First University Founder, KrisAnne Hall

We hope to see you all on May 2nd at our monthly club meeting with our distinguished guest speaker, KrisAnne Hall. We have finally booked her after a two-year waiting period. She has a loyal following throughout America and her inspiring presentation on the foundations of the US Constitution will leave you ready to take up the torch of liberty again!

We want to wish you and your families abundant blessings of happiness, peace and prosperity for this Easter and Passover holiday season!

Message from Phil Orenstein, President Queens Village Republican Club


HISTORIC MANHATTAN BUS TOUR

DON’T LET THE BUS LEAVE WITHOUT YOU!

2017 Historic Bus Tour to Staten Island

Our popular annual historic bus tour leaves on Saturday, May 18 at 9 AM from the Queens County Farm Museum.  This year we are visiting Manhattan.  We are taking in the historic 1765 Morris Jumel Mansion in upper Manhattan, and National Society of Colonial Dames in the State of New York headquarters in Midtown East with its fabulous American Colonial-style interiors, Sylvan Terrace with its block of attached wooden houses that survive from 1880, and a delicious lunch at Coogan’s in Washington Heights.  We didn’t mention the menu last month.  You may like historic houses, but you will love the menu: Garden Salad followed by choice of grilled fresh filet of salmon served with rice and vegetable of the day, or shrimp scampi, or chicken picata, or penne a la vodka or Chicken Pot Pie and dessert of Chocolate Cake or Cheesecake. Soda and coffee included. Cost is totally inclusive at $99 per person. See flyer below or call James Trent 718-343-8830 to reserve. We return by 5 PM.


QVGOP Statement on Legalizing Third Term and Partial Birth Abortion

We, the board of directors of the Queens Village Republican Club, are deeply saddened and horrified that the democratically controlled legislature of the State of New York has chosen death over life and curse over blessing. The passing of the recent legislation that legalizes third term and partial birth abortion is clear evidence of this. We categorically condemn the unconscionable legislation that legalizes brutal murder of a viable and precious human life.


144th Anniversary Lincoln Dinner was our most spectacular celebration to date!

New York State GOP Chairman Ed Cox speaks at Lincoln Dinner

We did it again! We topped ourselves with the most wildly spectacular, exhilarating, and “explosive” Lincoln Dinner event ever, according to feedback from attendees.  “It’s a great day to be Republican in New York,” was the refrain of the day.

The Republican Patriots: Phil McManus, Margaret Wagner, Ira Harris, Evangeline Balaskas, Jeff Ulmer, Lauren Whalen, Rick Zaslow, Vickie and Thomas Paladino, Anthony Devolder, Karina Moreno, Joe Concannon, Janet Maderik, Gabriel Miller.

First time dinner guest Hope Parisi said, “It was my 1st dinner it won’t be my last. I had a great time. It’s good to know so many people feel the same as me.” Michael Ferrara, videographer said, “We had a blast yesterday with all the new, cool rock stars in the Republican Party.” Donna Marino said “Sharing this great day for America with so many wonderful people at the QVRC annual Lincoln Dinner, here with my sister Renee.” Joining us from Dutchess County, NY, was Assemblyman Kieran Lalor who said, “The energy and passion at the Queens Village Republican Club, Inc. Lincoln Dinner yesterday was inspiring.”

Francis Lewis High School JROTC Honor Guard presents Colors
Cory Lewandowski

Along with our gala celebration of Abraham Lincoln, our first Republican President, we celebrated the momentous occasion with Cory Lewandowski, the greatest keynote speaker we could ever stage for “No Collusion Day,” to thunderous chants of “USA, USA, USA!” For Sunday, March 24th was the day that Attorney General William Barr released a letter to Congress saying that Mueller found no evidence of collusion with Russia and no obstruction of justice. Lewandowski spoke of the day of reckoning coming for Comey, McCabe, Strzok, and Hillary, as the audience chanted “Lock Her Up” and “Lock Them Up!”

We paved the way to next year’s reelection campaign for President Trump with our rallying cry, #OnwardTo2020. We broadcast our invitation to our great President to return to his native hometown, Queens for next year’s Lincoln Dinner to a roaring chorus of approval, which Lewandowski heard loud and clear!

Nikoloz Chkheidze with Cory Lewandowski

Lewandowski related his personal stories re-counting that President Trump works 20 hours a day, seven days a week, and as his campaign manager, Lewandowski needed 20 energy drinks a day to keep up him. He ticked off the astounding accomplishments in the first two years of his presidency, reminding everyone of the largest tax cuts in our nation’s history, slashing up to 22 burdensome regulations for every new rule, moving the US Embassy to Jerusalem, recognizing Israel’s right over the Golan Heights, bringing our military men and women home, elected two Supreme Court justices and one more to come, created 600,000 manufacturing jobs, unemployment has dropped to the lowest rate ever for Hispanics and Blacks, and so much more. President Trump is a fighter who fights for us every day. He fights for every American. He fights the lies of the Fake News. There will be great news and opportunities for all ahead of us in the next six years of his presidency, and then the next eight with President Mike Pence!

#WalkAway founder Brandon Straka with Laurel Arias
Cathy Donohoe, Sanctity of Life Honoree

It was a doubleheader of Republican “rock stars!” Cheers of “WalkAway!” resounded wherever our American Patriot of the Year honoree, Brandon Straka was seen, from the cocktail hour, the VIP room, to the grand ballroom when we enjoyed the full course dinner and award ceremonies for our valiant honorees, all chosen for their heroic deeds and patriotic service to our county and communities, including Arlene Mooradian, Charles Vavruska, Thomas Sullivan, Robert Turner, Catherine Donohoe, Vickie Paladino, David Bressler and Eric Butkiewicz.

Mike Ferarra and Brandon Straka

Straka had the people all pumped up and jumping out of their seats as he delivered his “explosive message.” He recounted the personal story of his transformation from a liberal Hillary supporter, who was devastated and terrified by the electoral victory of Trump, to a pro-Trump Republican, who today is leading hundreds of thousands to walk away from the Democrat Party. One party embraces abortion, welfare state, socialism, one party does not.  More black babies are aborted than are born.  Democrats have decimated the black and minority communities. Now there are over 400,000 patriots, who are on a journey in this enlightening movement, not a destination.  He teaches people to “start thinking for yourself.”  He is the new charismatic leader of millions who are breaking through the walls of mental tyranny, leaving behind the intellectual quarantine of the Democrat Party.

We were honored to have Barbara from Harlem as our dinner guest!

We displayed our welcoming embrace to our #WalkAway Democrat friends in a spontaneous outpouring of support, in which $1700 was raised for the #WalkAway campaign in 30 minutes, after Straka described how his Town Hall event was shut down, and he was branded a white supremacist hate group. That night Straka tweeted: 

“Tonight I was honored as Patriot of the Year by Queens Village Republican Club. I told attendees how radical leftists got our venue cancelled for the LGBT Town Hall. These Republicans donated almost $2000 toward the new venue 4 the LGBT Town Hall. Democrats shut down the LGBT Town Hall. Republicans saved the LGBT event.”

Republican Patriots Lauren Whalen and Karina Moreno celebrating our impending victory!

This brief report doesn’t do justice to this incredible uplifting event. See for yourself the photos and videos of our great speakers and honorees, which will be posted on our club website and social media in the coming weeks. Please solicit our Lincoln Dinner sponsors who advertised in our beautiful dinner journal, and above all continue to fight to build the Republican Party in Queens, register Republicans, and let’s win the election of President Trump and our Republican candidates in 2020! #WalkAway!! #OnwardTo2020!!  It’s a great time to be a Republican Patriot in New York!!

MAGA Queens!
Club President Phil Orenstein and Lincoln Dinner Chairman James Trent with Brandon Straka

QVGOP MEETING: GENEALOGY OF THE US CONSTITUTION

KrisAnne Hall presents the 700yr history and 5 foundational charters that gave us our founding documents. You will see the striking parallels between today’s events and the events that illuminated our framers’ understanding. You will go away inspired and hopeful, ready to take up the torch of liberty again!


VIDEO: 144TH ANNIVERSARY LINCOLN DINNER

144th Anniversary Lincoln Dinner presented by the Queens Village Republican Club.


“Out with the old in with the new” was the theme at the Queens Village Republican Club 144th Anniversary Lincoln Dinner. All the cool Republicans and WalkAway Democrats gathered together to celebrate and promote the Grand Old Party with new people young and old with new ideas in moving forward and fighting to make our city, state and country great again. Video compilation by Michael Ferrara.


NEXT GENERAL CLUB MEETING: EQUAL JUSTICE FOR VICTIMS

NEXT GENERAL CLUB MEETING: THURSDAY APRIL 4, 2019 at 7:30 PM

Our new meeting place:

Young Israel of Holliswood / 
Holliswood Jewish Center
86-25 Francis Lewis Blvd., Holliswood, NY 11427  

Featured Speakers:

Dr. Lester Jackson author of “Equal Justice for Victims: A Blueprint for the Rightful Restoration of Capital Punishment,” will speak on the topic: The Slaughter of 870,000 Innocent, Law-Abiding People in the United States During the Last 47 years: why It Happened and How to Stop It.

Lester Jackson is the author of numerous articles about capital punishment, the Supreme Court, and American politics. 21 have been published by American Thinker. His articles also have been in Enter Stage Right, Restoring Liberty, Red State, Intellectual Conservative and elsewhere. His major articles can be found here. Most recent articles can be found at Homicide Survivors. A former college teacher, he holds a New York University Ph.D. in political science.

MAGA Queens:

Thomas Zmich and Karina Moreno will talk about the MAGA Queens movement. Thomas, a Gulf War Veteran and Queens native, is the president of MAGA Queens, and the Vice President is Karina, who immigrated from Ecuador in 2000 and is the candidate for Republican District Leader of 30AD.

MAGA Queens was founded August 2018 to help spread the word of President Trump’s America First Agenda. They support our President’s agenda of pro-God, pro-life, and pro-America First policies. The short-term goal is to support all candidates who agree with this agenda, in the November election. The long-term mission is to unite all Americans, put America First, and build a united voter base of support for Trump in 2020, and the future political climate in Queens, NY.

Other speakers to be announced.


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