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Statement from County Executive Rob Astorino & Sheriff Chris Moss on Today’s NYPD Protest

Letter to New York Republican Candidates, Staff and Party Leaders regarding Al Sharpton’s anti-police rally  

This is an urgent message from Phil Orenstein, president of the Queens Village Republican Club, to all our gubernatorial, statewide and congressional Republican candidates, Councilmen, campaign staff, Chairman Cox and our GOP Party leadership.

Our number one concern is the safety and security of all New Yorkers. In that regard, I urge you to issue an urgent call for a state of emergency declaration regarding Al Sharpton’s anti-police rally in Staten Island this coming Saturday and insist that the protest be postponed until things calm down.

Ferguson, Missouri, the city under siege, has been exploding in violence that is out of control, and the same perpetrators, rabble rousers and agitators will be on hand in NYC Saturday to stir up trouble. There will likely be violence, rioting and looting in our city.

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“This is the start of Cuomogate. As more people are questioned, it will unfold. People are tired of the corruption in Albany. There’s a reason why New York has the highest taxes and the worst business climate.  The corruption has to come to an end.”

This outstanding interview with Rob Astorino by Mitchell Langbert, associate professor of business at Brooklyn College was written as an exclusive for The Lincoln Eagle, a popular upstate newspaper written by its readers, that offers an alternative to the narrow-minded elitism of mainstream journalism.

An Interview with Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Rob Astorino

By Mitchell Langbert, Ph.D.

Mr. Robert Astorino’s choice of running mate, Chemung County Sheriff Christopher Moss, reveals much.  Sheriff Moss is president of the New York State Sheriffs’ Association, and he is a vocal critic of the SAFE Act. He will be the first African American statewide GOP candidate.

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“….the political world will be looking at a major upset in the empire state this coming fall.”

Meet Chris Moss: Republican and Conservative candidate for Lt. Governor of NYS. 
Candidates Night hosted by The Queens Village Republican Club
Tuesday, August 26, 2014
7:30 pm
Knights of Columbus, St. Anne’s Council
263-15 Union Tpke., Glen Oaks, NY 11004

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This is a letter from Club member Fred Bedell,  sent to local and regional newspapers regarding the “Meet Rob Astorino” event on Monday June 30th.

I had the privilege to attend a meeting of the Republican club of Queens Village held at St. Anne’s Knights of Columbus hall in Glen Oaks Village, on June 30th. The guest speaker was Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino, who spoke why he wants to be the next governor of this great state of New York.

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A case of racial engineering that Obama wants to take nationwide.

This is an excellent editorial in this morning’s Wall Street Journal detailing Rob Astorino’s  fight against the Federal Government, as well as Andrew Cuomo’s attempt to make race an issue in this campaign. Please pass it along and share with all your friends. 

Residents of the northern New York City suburbs were recently treated to a TV ad invoking images of the Jim Crow South and claiming that Westchester County executive Rob Astorino has “repeatedly violated anti-discrimination laws for years.” None of the ad is true, but it does reveal some important political news with national implications.

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On June 30, we present a Special Club Meeting welcoming Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino, the Republican and Conservative candidate for Governor of the State of New York. Our goal is to rally all the local voters who care about the future of New York State in order to help elect Astorino and STOP THE DECLINE OF NY!!

The November General Election is upon us, and the Primary Election is right around the corner, June 24th. The Queens Village Republican Club supports our Republican NYS Assembly candidate Jesus Gonzalez (AD-39) and we are helping him collect petition signatures. If you’ve never done it before, it’s easy and a lot of fun. We will be walking in the Woodside, East Elmhurst area to help Jesus get his name on the ballot ringing the doorbells of fellow Republicans. He needs our help and we will be meeting this Sunday and on other dates throughout the month of June.

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….his children are the most important reasons behind his decision to run for Congress. “ Just like all parents”, he said, “ I love my children with all of my heart and soul. I want to be elected to Congress to help insure that my two daughters and all children throughout our beautiful land will continue to enjoy the freedom and opportunity that has made America the greatest nation in the history of the world.”

Senator Lee Zeldin: On the Radar List

By Robert Golomb

This past November the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) informed 34 year old attorney Senator Lee Zeldin, whose NYS Suffolk County Third Senate District covers major portions of Islip and Brookhaven, that he would be placed on their congressional candidate “ Radar List’’. The NRCC, which is known to have its eyes set on expanding its current hold of 34 seats in the House of Representatives, reserves placement on this list to Republican congressional candidates in competitive races thought to have legitimate chances of winning in this coming fall’s election. Placement on this list is known to be followed with what the NRCC has written to be, “ the tools they [the candidates} need to run successful winning campaigns against their Democrat opponents.”

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“These proposals have also gained a great deal of attention from both the print and broadcast media throughout the state…. Regardless of the outcome of the bill, it has begun to drive the conversation in Albany into not if, but rather when and how, we must reform the budget and change the entire budgetary process into one which places the taxpayer first.”

Assemblyman Michael Fitzpatrick:  Not Afraid to Say No.       

By Robert Golomb

The President and many national Democrats have dubbed the Republican Party as the party of “ No” because of their opposition to a long list of domestic and foreign policy bills proposed by Democrats in the House and Senate. Republicans refute such a label, arguing that whenever they have opposed legislation initiated by Democrats, they have offered their own bills, only to have them readily dismissed by the President and his party.

It seems to me that on a national level each party has a point.  But if Democrats are looking for a Republican to be their poster child of the “ No” vote, all they need do is leave Washington and come to the NYS Assembly in Albany, where they can meet and study the voting record of the Assemblyman for the 8^th AD, Republican Michael Fitzpatrick.

Having voted “No” on every state budget with the exception of the 2011-2012 and 2012- 2013 budgets since his election in 2002, Fitzpatrick, the  married father of two adult children, could immediately become the “ No” vote poster child for these Democrats – who would also learn that Fitzpatrick over that same time voted against any bill that contained an increase in business, property or personal taxes and, or, contained any hikes in fees paid to governmental agencies. Based upon this record, these Democrats would come to understand why Fitzpatrick is often referred to as“ Doctor No” by legislators on both sides of the aisle in the State Assembly Building in Albany.

When I interviewed Fitzpatrick – whose Suffolk County District covers the entire town of Smithtown, and northern parts of the town of Islip – in his Smithtown community office last week, he explained why he is proud of his many “ No” votes. “  I wear my no votes as a badge of honor,” he said, with just a glimmer of a smile on his face. “ The bills that I opposed, which unfortunately were passed, were filled with wasteful spending, adding up to more than six billion dollars.  The citizens of my district, which is composed primarily of middle and upper middle class families, are the good, hardworking, family oriented people who pay a disproportionate amount of the tax burden in our state, which, as I’m sure you know, is the highest taxed state in the nation. So, of course, I will vote no on any legislation that will drive our taxes even higher.”

Fitzpatrick, who has a BA in Business Administration and has worked  for  14 years in the financial services industry, however, was quick to add that he has accomplished far more in the Assembly than simply voting “ No” on budgetary measures that he believed contained excessive spending. Noting that he has sponsored or co-sponsored 36 bills during his eleven years in the Assembly   Fitzpatrick stated, “ To change the culture in Albany it is not enough to simply be reactive and vote no. It is equally important to be proactive and introduce bills- economic and otherwise- that will actually benefit the citizens of NYS.”

 Asked to cite the three bills he has sponsored of which he is most proud and explain the importance of each, Fitzpatrick unhesitatingly offered the first two, which unsurprisingly to me, concerned issues relating to the budget:  “ I was proud to have introduced a bill that capped the property tax levy at a level that can not exceed the rate of inflation. This establishes a built in check on government spending which provides an essential safeguard for our taxpayers.

“And, I am also proud”, Fitzpatrick continued,“ of the legislation I have introduced to reform our pension system.  Pension costs for the state and local governments are the elephant in the fiscal room. The high and ever escalating costs {of the state pension} will be very difficult to sustain even into the near future….  My legislation would provide tax relief for our over burdened citizens, and at the same time, the bill would provide new state and municipal employees with a pension plan that will be fiscally stable both in the short and long term.”

Because it had nothing to do with the state budget, the third legislative proposal he cited came, at first, as a surprise to me.  “ I sponsored a bill that would prohibit the New York State Employees Retirement System from investing in companies that do business with nations that sponsor terrorism such as Iran. I am particularly proud of this law…. It allows New York State to do something to thwart this awful regime from possessing nuclear weapons’’, he said.

 Fitzpatrick then paused shortly before adding, “ Such nuclear weapons in the hands of these Christian and Jewish hating Iranian Mullahs could result in enormous numbers of death and incalculable destruction to America and to our allies, including our closest ally, Israel, whose very existence would be threatened if Iran, God forbid, possessed a nuclear weapon…. As a devout Catholic and as an ordinary American citizen I marched in the 1980’s with my Jewish brothers and sisters on behalf of Soviet Jewry…. And today as an Assemblyman I will continue to work together with all good people of all faiths to try to prevent a monstrous anti- Christian, anti-Semitic regime from possessing monstrous weapons.”

Fitzpatrick told me that when he returns to Albany next week, he will  try to convince his colleagues to take a close look at a bill he introduced in the Assembly just last week. The bill contains controversial budgetary reforms which include – ending the practice of granting municipal government employees automatic salary increases when their contracts have expired, requiring that all new state and local government workers  make payments into a 401 k style defined contribution to their pension plans, and placing a 2 percent cap on pay raises won by municipal workers in binding arbitration.

While there is virtually no Albany Republican or Democrat who gives this bill, which has drawn harsh criticism from public employee unions throughout the state, any chance of becoming law, Fitzpatrick remains convinced that, whatever the eventual outcome of the bill, he did not waste his time in authoring it.  “ Every thousand mile journey, it has been written, begins with a first step’’, he said. “ Introducing this bill is an important first step…. Many of my Democratic and Republican colleagues, while probably not planning to vote for the bill now, are at least beginning to acknowledge the credibility of my proposals. These proposals have also gained a great deal of attention from both the print and broadcast media throughout the state…. Regardless of the outcome of the bill, it has begun to drive the conversation in Albany into not if, but rather when and how, we must reform the budget and change the entire budgetary process into one which places the taxpayer first.”

Most Yorkers, I suspect, would probably say yes to that.

Robert Golomb is a nationally published columnist. MrBob347@aol.com

Dear Fellow New Yorkers,

The uplifting rituals surrounding the welcoming of our new mayor recently were dampened by the negative rhetoric contained within a number of speeches.  Rather than acknowledging the advancements off the past two decades, giving a positive vision of the future, it seemed the “Tale of Two Cities” theme was meant to divide New Yorkers instead of uniting them.  I’m here to stand up for all New Yorkers, and I invite you to join me in this effort.

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Frank Scaturro is a Republican candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives in New York’s 4th Congressional District (NY-4). Frank believes our nation is at a tipping point, and if we do not turn things around, we could face many more years of decline. That is why he is offering the voters of Nassau County a real choice for principled new leadership that will finally represent the people.

As a principled new voice, Frank will work to make our Federal government accountable to the people again, reign in out-of-control spending, and reduce a crushing federal tax burden that hurts Long Island citizens and businesses.

Frank was born in New York City in 1972 and raised in New Hyde Park following his family’s move to that community in 1973. His father, who had emigrated from Italy as a boy, was self-employed in a commercial air conditioning and refrigeration repair business for several years. He later became the supervisor of maintenance and operations at Bergdorf Goodman in New York City and then held a similar position at Chaminade High School in Mineola. His mother studied physical therapy at Nassau Community College and worked near home as a secretary at an insurance agency and several law firms. Read more…

Hi Everyone,

Thank you for your wonderful and faithful support in this year’s campaign for New York City Council. The election this year was filled with challenges: short notice to prepare the campaign, prepare the voters, limited time to raise funds and running on an independent line which many voters just did not at all understand.

We crafted our campaign literature to educate the voters about the issues involved in this election cycle and where to find us on the ballot, but this proved to be a rather large obstacle in the end. It was particularly detrimental to the campaign as well that the 2013 General Election Voter’s Guide provided no listing of my profile and photo due to the incompetence and malfeasance of the NYC Campaign Finance Board.

Last evening we met at Vaccaro’s Pizzeria & Trattoria in Floral Park to thank our supporters, donors and campaign volunteers. We took stock of the campaign results that were coming in and conceded the election to Mark Weprin at about 10:10pm. We thanked all of you for your tireless work, time and energy. We had a great team, wonderful and hard working campaign manager and plenty of encouragement. Thank you all.

Moving forward, I will be joining the Queens Village Republican Club Board, and would ask each of you to become a club member at $25.00 a year. More importantly, I ask you to become active members of this club, participate in its functions and look to get our candidates elected. This is where politics begins, locally, and we’re counting on each of you to join us.

Joseph R. Concannon
VOTE THE REFORM LINE
Candidate for NYC Council District #23
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