“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.
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.
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.
Press Release
March 19, 2019
Charlie Vavruska
On March 16, 2019, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez starred in a Jackson Heights education town hall meeting. While it was formally organized by Jackson Heights People for Public Schools, AOC was the highlight and the reason most attendees showed up. Many radical progressive education proposals were presented, e.g., stop suspensions, eliminate standardized testing, remove white teachers.
During the town hall several speakers criticized the SHSAT (Specialized High School Admissions Test). The SHSAT is an objective and merit based test used as the sole admissions criteria for the Specialized High School including Stuyvesant, Bronx Science and Brooklyn Tech are among the best high schools in the country. In recent years, Mayor de Blasio has been critical that the majority of students admitted to the Specialized High Schools are Asian and few are Black and Hispanic.
The SHSAT criticisms elicited raucous protests from a group of vocal Asians parents. These Asians parents held up signs which read “Anti SHSAT = Anti Asian”, “Equity! A Code Word for Anti Asian” and “Stop Progressive Asian Racism”. Many of the AOC acolytes seem dumbfounded by the ferocity of the Asian parents who feel the SHSAT is a opportunity to achieve the America dream and feel their merit based culture is under attack by progressives. At one point a panelist said the SHSAT was anti immigrant, causing one protester to begin shouting in broken English, severely undermining the panelist’s argument.
Yesterday, the SHSAT results were released and Mayor de Blasio and his progressive followers instead of celebrating the achievement of hard working students have used it as a opportunity to engage in further racial division.
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144th ANNIVERSARY LINCOLN DINNER
Sunday, March 24, 2018, 3 – 8 pm
Antun’s, 96-43 Springfield Blvd., Queens Village, NY 11429
For tickets and information visit: www.QVGOP.org
Contact James Trent, Dinner Chair at 718-343-8830 or JTrent8830@aol.com
We anticipate a record crowd for our 144th Anniversary Lincoln Dinner on March 24th. Come and enjoy our greatest celebration of the roots of our Party, the Party of Freedom, the Party of Lincoln, and the Party of President’s Trump’s American First agenda!
The thrilling news is that Brandon Straka, the founder of #WalkAway Campaign will be our honored Lincoln Dinner guest speaker. We are proud to recognize his courageous work with the honor of our American Patriot of the Year Award.
A lifelong liberal who voted for Hillary, Straka has become an overnight sensation in the conservative movement, a superstar passionately leading the silent majority to become unsilent. In fact, recently he was denied service at a camera store in Manhattan because a salesman thought he was going to use the camera equipment for “alt-right activities.” He’s enjoyed frequent appearances on Fox News, including an hour-long interview on “Life, Liberty & Levin,” and he was a speaker at the recent annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). He’s received praise from President Trump for “starting something very special.”
Fearless and undaunted, he recognized the truth and walked away from the intolerant identity politics of the left and led thousands of others to do the same with a video that went viral on social media, where he said: “Once upon a time, I was a liberal. But liberalism has changed, and I will no longer be a part of an ideology or political party that represents everything that contradicts my values of unity, equal opportunity, personal empowerment, compassion and love.”
Straka has created a mass exodus of awakened Americans from all ethnic communities and walks of life encouraging them to “walk away from the divisive tenets endorsed and mandated by the Democratic Party of today.” He mentions that “there is there is a seat at the table on the right for everybody.” Our club is putting out the welcome mat to embrace our new friends, to come and join us at the Lincoln Dinner and celebrate and honor the awesome work of Brandon Straka.
We are thrilled to present our most exciting lineup of renowned speakers, local heroes and honorees at our dinner party, including President Trump’s original campaign managers, Corey Lewandowski and David Bossie, our illustrious Master of Ceremonies, Frankie “Five Boroughs” Morano, and our heroic 2018 candidates, Republican Woman and Man of the Year, Vickie Paladino and David Bressler, Young Republican of the Year, Eric Butkiewicz, and our Veteran of the Year, Thomas Sullivan. Cathy Donohoe is being honored for her life-saving work as President of Bridge to Life, Charles Vavruska, honored for his vocal advocacy for saving the SHSAT. Special honors will go to Bob Turner, who has never been officially recognized for his service and dedication as former Congressman from Queens and our Party Chairman. Come to the Lincoln Dinner and join hundreds of enthusiastic Republican Patriots celebrating the Party of Lincoln and the dawn of a brand-new Republican Party!
