Elizabeth Pipko, Founder & President of The Exodus Movement, featured on Fox News, is an international model, former Trump campaign staffer and fiercely proud millennial Jew. The Exodus Movement is a Super PAC comprised of proud Jewish Americans who reject the anti-Americanism and anti-Semitism of the rising far-left, whose goal is to inspire those who have yet to break the chains and make their Exodus from the Left and the Democrat Party, and to fight for victory for President Trump and Republicans in 2020 and beyond!
Special Guest Speaker: Ann Schockett
Queens native, Ann Schockett is the newly elected President of the National Federation of Republican Women, the largest Republican Women’s Group in America. Ann is an award-winning businesswoman, civic leader, and a mover and shaker, campaign strategist and national leader in the Republican Party for nearly four decades. Ann was honored as the “Republican Woman of the Year” at the 143rd Anniversary Lincoln Dinner in 2018 by the Queens Village Republican Club. We are proud to welcome Ann back and congratulate our favorite Queens Republican Woman of the Year!!
The Dinner Party will be catered by the famous A&A Gourmet of Fresh Meadows with their fabulous Kosher hot dinner buffet and fancy desserts. Vegetarian dishes included. Everything is Glatt Kosher under the Vaad Harabonim of Queens. Reserve now to guarantee admission.
Due to the strictly Kosher dietary laws of Holliswood Jewish Center, no baked goods or any other foods can be brought in from outside.
Mitt Romney is a disgrace to the Republican Party. We don’t need genteel, collegial Republicans to complain about President Trump’s “unpresidential” behavior in the White House. Romney is emerging as the ringleader of the insane Republican resistance, now jumping into the impeachment witch-hunt. “The American people chose a barbarian for president because they knew only a barbarian could drain the Washington swamp,” wrote Miranda Devine in the New York Post (10/7/19).
A
letter writer sarcastically thanks Romney for four more unwanted years of
Obama, and asks that he show some guts and switch parties. “The GOP doesn’t
need his kind,” he writes. Mitt Romney may be an accomplished business manager
and venture capitalist, but he’s not a fighter nor is he the right person to
take on the Democrat Party, which is now run by radical anti-Semitic
socialists. Classic Liberalism is dead and this is no longer your father’s
Democrat Party.
The
new Republican fighter is emerging, in the mold of our great leader, President
Trump. Freedom and democracy has never been won with passive dialogues of peace
and serenity, but with the steel spines and iron fisted resolve of great men
and women of our nation, who have fought bravely against the enemies of America
and our liberties. In 1776, these Patriots stood up to fight for Liberty
against the lack of representation in England, and secured our freedom and
independence from the British Crown. Union soldiers fought and died for our
equality, dignity, and unity as fellow countrymen and human beings. The Greatest
Generation overcome their material comforts and left their families to wage war
overseas against totalitarianism, fascism, and tyranny. Here in NYC, the brave
men and women of law enforcement sacrifice their comforts and their lives every
day for the safety and security of every New Yorker. Victorious on every
battlefield, from the mean streets of New York City to every remote corner of
the globe, these patriots make America the great shining light of freedom,
democracy and prosperity for the world as we are today.
We
are the Republican fighters for liberty, justice and our America. There is no
room for complacency, compromise, or ulterior motives in pursuit of this just
and noble cause. Our values and our way of life as Americans are in peril. We
need to fight purely because we realize we are on a sacred mission to defend
our great country, our freedoms, our traditional values, and our Constitution
and Bill of Rights, here in our local communities, right here in Queens, NY.
Now
that we are under attack from the highly organized and bankrolled socialist left,
we are making history as Republican Patriots challenging the political
establishment and the radical left, to build a great new Republican
organization of the people, not with bullets, but with ballots, proxies, and
votes!
We
will organize, recruit Republicans, and build a great GOP organization where
every County Committee (Election District) seat is filled in every Assembly
District in Queens. This is our battle. It’s the battle against our greatest
enemies of all, which are apathy, inertia, and pessimism, where everyone’s
voice counts in this fight, and every vote makes a difference. We are also
fighting against the naysayers who declare, “it can’t be done, because it’s
never been done before.”
History
is made by the doers and the activists, not the naysayers and pessimists. It’s
those who try and fail, and get up again and try one more time. We have to continue
to go out and talk to the people, face to face, door to door, person to person,
block by block, Election District by Election District, Assembly District by Assembly
District. We need to meet and befriend our busy Republican neighbors and sincerely
ask them to get involved to the extent that they can, and join our noble cause.
Whether they become Republican County Committee leaders, or campaign
volunteers, or attend our club meetings, and our glorious annual Lincoln
Dinner, or merely donate much needed money, all their contributions to our
movement are greatly appreciated.
Let
us inform the voters of all parties, whether Democrat, Independence Party, or “Blank,”
that Republicans share their values, and we all need to stand united against
our leftist enemies. Inform them that the so-called moderate Democrats are in the
Party of yesteryear, and their political leaders have lost their backbone,
running scared in compromise with the left.
We
need to speak up and debunk the widely held myths that all Republicans are
wealthy upper class 1%-ers, white stuffed shirts, men’s clubbers, and racists. Rather,
we share the same values and the promise of the American Dream with all our
fellow hard-working American citizens of every race and ethnicity. We need to
talk to the people, knock on doors, and win hearts and minds. Make our case to
them and urge them to vote and register as Republicans. That’s the path to
victory, to change our GOP organization, win elections, and change our
government.
We
need to bust the myths, and expose the bias and lies of the leftist fake news
media and the long-standing indoctrination that we are the bad guys. Yes, that
goes for the local Queens weekly newspapers, most of which are owned by
leftwing corporate conglomerates. We need to educate the voters that we are not
anti-immigrant, nor are we racists. Rather, we Republicans are members of all
races, colors, creeds and we hail from all national origins, united as
Americans first under our U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights, who support
legal immigration. We are not anti-labor
union. Many of us are union workers, and we too desire better wages and working
conditions for hard-working law-abiding American citizens, toiling every day to
make life for their family’s future generations better than the last. Many unions
oppose the Green New Deal and giving up their individual health plans for a Medicare
for All program, and some supported Amazon’s headquarters in Queens. Not one
union endorsed Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Labor unions are our natural allies. Republicans
are not in favor of dismantling Social Security or the social safety net
programs. Rather we stand against out-of-control
government spending that has wasted $ trillions on such catastrophes as the War
on Poverty, and the billions of squandered tax dollars on NYC’s failed mental
health plan, ThriveNYC, the disastrous Renewal School Program,
and the list goes on and on.
It starts now. November 5th is the day of the General Election. We have to get out and vote and vote Republican, and bring our friends and neighbors to the polls and to our Republican club meetings, as we build our Party.
By Phil Orenstein, President Queens Village Republican Club
The October 3rd General Club Meeting was our annual Columbus Day Dinner held at Nancy’s restaurant. The Queens County Republican Party Reorganization was scheduled for the same night, so our club president and several officers and members could not be present.
SCHERIE MURRAY: Republican candidate seeking the nomination for US Congress in New York 14th Congressional District running against AOC.
PATRICK DELICES: Republican candidate for the South Bronx congressional seat of the departing Rep. Jose Serrano in New York 15th Congressional District.
GEORGE A.D. SANTOS: Republican candidate for NY 3rd Congressional District.
RAGINI SRIVASTAVA: Republican candidate running in the Council Election for District 2 in North Hempstead. QVGOP 2nd VP, Hemant Shah introduces her.
Editor’s Note: This column, as syndicated columnist’s Bob Golomb’s previous piece published on these pages two weeks ago prove, the leftist Democrats cause as many terrible problems in Suffolk County as they do everywhere else in America, including right here in Queens. Please share this column with your friends in Suffolk County and urge them to vote for John M. Kennedy for County Executive and, if they live in the 2nd Legislative District, to vote for Linda Kabot.
County Legislator Candidate Linda Kabot pictured with County Executive Candidate John Kennedy, June 14, 2019 – Photo Credit: Kennedy Campaign Dean Murray
Most of Long
Island’s political media have reported primarily on the battle in this year’s
November 5th election for Suffolk County Executive waging between Republican challenger,
County Comptroller John M. Kennedy (whom
I interviewed for a column that appeared on these pages 2 weeks ago), and
Democrat incumbent Steve Bellone (with whose campaign staff I have been at the time
of this writing unsuccessfully attempting to schedule an interview for a column).
This media attention
reflects the importance to the county’s 1.5 million residents of the position
of Suffolk County Executive, whose authority as the county’s highest elected official
includes proposing, seeking legislative approval and enacting the annual
budget, managing the county’s dozens of departments and
agencies and representing Suffolk’s interests in its financial and legal dealings
with the federal and state governments.
So far less covered
by the media, but collectively of equal importance to the County Executive race,
are this fall’s contests between Democrats and Republicans for the 18 seats of
the Suffolk County Legislature. Co-equal
to the County Executive, the Suffolk County Legislature is responsible for approving
or disapproving the county head’s proposed budget, serving as the official
governmental watchdog to prevent wasteful spending, levying taxes and setting
county policies, most notably those affecting public health and public safety.
For the 24 elections
held since the Suffolk County Legislator was first established in January 1970
(for 200 years prior a “Board of Supervisors” served as the county’s statutory
body), political contests for the 2- year term seats on this legislative branch
have been known to be fiercely fought. However,
this year’s contest, the 25th in the county’s history, has been said
by several political insiders with whom I have been in contact to be the most harshly
fought of any in recent memory.
According to several
of these same sources, the most
intensely fought of all 18 seats (11 currently held by Democrats and 7 by the
GOP) has been the battle between the Republican challenger Linda Kabot and 2
term Democrat incumbent Bridget Fleming in Suffolk County Legislative District
(LD) 2, the county’s 2nd largest geographical district, which spans the entire
South Fork of Suffolk, comprising the towns of Southampton and East Hampton,
Shelter Island, East Moriches, and portions of the Town of Brookhaven.
County Legislator Candidate Linda Kabot pictured in the Legislature Meeting Room, March 27, 2019 following testimony at the County’s Spending Task Force Public Hearing. Photo Credit: Kabot Campaign Anthony Piccirillo
However, when I
interviewed Kabot in Suffolk County last week, I thought, at first, that my
usually reliable sources had misled me. To my surprise, rather than beginning
the interview with a strong rebuke of Fleming, Kabot told me that she and her
opponent share the same views on several important local environmental issues.
Citing their agreement on proposals to upgrade septic systems, create sewer
districts in downtown village areas and develop storm abatement systems in low
lying areas of East Suffolk, Kabot stated, “Both Ms. Fleming and I agree that
these programs are vital to protecting the environment and safeguarding our
communities from potential natural disasters.”
However, Kabot, 52, who has in the past served
a combined 14 years in the executive and legislative branches of the
Southampton municipality, including 6 years as a councilwoman and 2 years as
town supervisor, just moments later made it clear to me that beyond their areas
of agreement on these environmental programs, she and Fleming hold polar
opposite positions on all other key issues.
“Other than our
shared support of several environmental programs, I have extremely strong
disagreements with Ms. Fleming concerning every major issue affecting the
people of Suffolk”, stated Kabot, the married mother of 3 young adult sons.
The main area of their
disagreement pointed to by Kabot relates to the county’s $2 billion accumulated
debt, and its interconnected almost $900 million operating deficit. To pay off
the interests on that debt and to fund government operational services, Kabot
stated, the county under Bellone’s stewardship and with the approval of
Democratic legislators, including Fleming for the past 4 years, has raised
property taxes by 22% while increasing by $100 million the fees that residents
pay to the county for such matters as recording their mortgages, purchasing
burglar alarms, registering their vehicles, and for camping, fishing and
holding group events at public parks.
“Mr. Bellone’s
across the board tax increases, which were rubber stamped into law by Ms.
Fleming and her Democrat colleagues in the legislature, have hit our middle-class
residents the hardest… This just proves Mr. Bellone’s and Ms. Fleming’s claim
to be ‘protecting the taxpayer’ is an outright lie”, stated Kabot.
“Ms. Fleming and her
fellow Democrats in the legislature”, Kabot continued, “have also voted in
favor of Bellone’s budget deficits which have led to Suffolk County Bond
ratings being downgraded seven times, now standing at a dismal Baa 2 rating,
just one level above junk bond status.”
True to what I had
originally expected, Kabot’s criticism of Fleming became more acerbic. Noting a recent report issued by New York
State Comptroller, which, comparing Suffolk to the other 61 counties in NYS,
described it as the state’s financially “most stressed county”, Kabot added, “this
is just further proof that Mr. Bellone and legislators like Ms. Fleming have
brought the county to the financial breaking point.”
Kabot, who has worked closely with Kennedy throughout the campaign, told me that if he and she are both elected, they, along with other Republican and some moderate Democratic lawmakers, will introduce policies and establish guidelines to restore the county’s financial viability.
The first item on their
agenda, she stated, will be to repeal a law, supported by Bellone and Fleming, which
currently requires the county to use funds acquired from its casinos to be directed
to pay for the public financing of political campaigns.
“Taxpayers should not be forced to help
finance any candidate’s political campaign. Casino revenues should be directed
into the general fund and be used to help pay off our huge debt”, said Kabot.
The next item on
Kennedy’s and her agenda, Kabot said, will be to conduct a formal review of the
dozens of the county’s executive departments and agencies, which, she contended,
have increased significantly in number under Bellone, adding to the county’s
debt without providing any tangible benefit to the public.
“This overblown
bureaucracy created by Bellone and his rubber stamp legislators, such as Ms.
Fleming, provides no benefits to our overtaxed citizens”, Kabot charged. “To
reduce spending, the entire budget will be carefully reviewed {if she and
Kennedy are elected} department by department. We will be focused on such
reforms as combining agencies that perform redundant jobs and reducing the
number of departments in the county’s executive branch.”
The final financial
item we discussed, while budget related, touched upon an issue connected to a bitter
national debate concerning the rights of illegal immigrants. Kabot noted that
Fleming favors wide- ranging entitlements for the thousands of illegal
immigrants living in Suffolk. Referring to Fleming’s support for the county’s
paying for their health care services, college tuition and legal aid, Kabot stated,
“As a child of parents who came here as legal immigrants, I am committed to
assisting people who came to America through legal means. However, I view the status of legal and
illegal immigrants to be totally different…. We have funneled millions of
dollars from our $700 million public assistance programs to pay for services
for illegals. That money must be redirected to help pay off our enormous
deficit.”
Our discussion of her and Fleming’s opposing views on illegal immigrants did not end there. Kabot attacked her opponent for her highly controversial vote against a resolution presented to the Legislature on February 7th, 2019. The resolution (which was passed with the vote of every legislator other than Fleming) called for the county to accept $ 65,000 in federal funding related to the Suffolk County’s Police Department’s (SCPD) participation in the “ICE EL DORADO TASK FORCE” (IEDTF) program.
Comprised, among other law enforcement
agencies, of Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) agents and SCPD
detectives, IEDTF was primarily formed, Kabot noted, to target criminal gangs made-
up of illegal immigrants, including the notorious MS-13.
“Fleming’s vote against
receiving federal money directed to aid law enforcement- which she
tellingly defends by saying she was
opposed to ICE’s participation in the task force- proves that she is indifferent
to the safety concerns of every person living or even visiting Suffolk County”,
stated Kabot.
Come the late
evening of November 5th, we will learn whether or not the voters of
Suffolk County share that depiction of Ms. Fleming.
County Legislator Candidate Linda Kabot pictured greeting guests at the VFW Post 5350 in Westhampton Beach, August 11, 2019 – Photo Credit: Kabot Campaign, Deborah Martel
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