The Queens Village Republican Club General Meeting on March 3rd, 2016 was a public forum focusing on local and national security issues and counter-terrorism.
The first speaker was Police Officer Steven Vranick from the NYPD Counter Terrorism Unit (CTU) Queens North. He gave us a detailed counter-terrorism briefing. He expressed the around the clock constant vigilance of the CTU, and the club members expressed their deepest respect and support for all our NYPD.
Legendary Buffalo developer and New York State Conservative firebrand, Carl Paladino delivered the keynote address, on the occasion of the 141st Anniversary Lincoln Dinner. He addressed a jam packed ballroom at Antun’s of Queens Village calling for the second American Revolution.
Carl Paladino is a risk-taker, unafraid to pioneer strategic retail developments in the most economically depressed areas of Buffalo, Syracuse, and Albany. As Chairman of Ellicott Development Company, which he founded in 1973, and a life-long advocate of the City of Buffalo, Paladino is best known for championing strategic ideas and has brought new life to the city and region. In the political arena, he pulled off an upset victory in 2010 winning the Republican nomination for New York State governor, and although he didn’t beat Cuomo, he is poised to run again for governor, which he mentioned in a recent interview with Neil Cavuto on the Fox Business Network.
Phil Orenstein, President of the Queens Village Republican Club and Republican District Leader of the 24th Assembly District in Queens, was honored as the Patriot of the Year. The presenter was former NYPD Captain and former City Council candidate, Joe Concannon. President Orenstein pledged to continue to pursue the Impossible Dream here in the belly of the beast, NYC until we take back our government from the progressive left.
Nikoloz Chkheidze, Chairman of Tvistomi Association – Georgian Community Organization of America, received the Businessman of the Year award at the 141st Anniversary Lincoln Dinner. Hemant Shah, was the presenter who said you can go to Italy but you can’t become an Italian, go to Germany but you can’t become German, but you can go to America and become an American. Nikoloz came to America and became an American. He was a Medical Doctor and a Freedom Fighter against the Soviet regime in Georgia, and said it was the great leadership of his hero, the hero of the Georgian people, President Ronald Reagan, who made it possible to defeat the Soviet Union. He holds the greatest appreciation for America, the greatest county in the world, the country where his dreams are coming true.
