Curtis is the founder and president of the Guardian Angels (http://guardianangels.org) and 2021 Republican mayoral candidate
Recently many Republicans have received calls mostly from young, well-spoken and highly educated women. They represent BE COUNTED NYC; their goal – to register you as a Democrat. Briefly they say, this is to fend off the growing influence of radicals in their own Democratic Party so that a moderate Democrat will be elected the next Mayor of NYC.
Like SIRENS in Greek mythology who would lure sailors to steer their ships into the rocks only to ultimately be destroyed. This is a call for Republicans to commit political suicide, having them abandon their party and drive it into oblivion based on the false notion that Republicans can’t win running for Mayor in NYC. They insist “You can’t win in NYC” in spite of 20 years of recent history to prove otherwise.
They say help them now and then return to your Republican ROOTS after they win. And then they say the “Quid Pro Quo” is that they will work with you in a BI-PARTISAN way to push for open primaries and non-partisan elections in the future, even though they have strongly opposed such measures in the past.
But do not forget, there was already a functional bi-partisan leadership in the NYS Senate when 8 Democrats created the IDC and worked with the Republicans to establish just such a BI-PARTISAN coalition. But then Cuomo like the SIREN lured them back and said “Peace be upon you.” And what was their reward? The establishment Democrats exacted revenge on them by running the very same type of radical leftist Democrats they are pushing back against now. One IDC member, Jose Peralta, a friend of mine, suffered an untimely death. I will never forget during the time of his political Shiva how some Establishment Democrats cursed his name, called him a JUDAS.
Just this past November Cuomo exacted revenge against all third parties because he had a falling out with the Working Families Party. Tried but failed to eliminate them. The only 2 to survive were the Conservative Party and a now newly strengthened Working Families Party that is collaborating with the Democratic Socialists of America. And Democratic State lawmakers are moving to redraw their own district lines to ensure a Majority for years to come.
Here’s what they are really saying – They can’t beat the DSA takeover of their party so Republicans should join them to try to bail them out by giving up on the 2-party system and creating a 2-tired Democratic Party that engages in winner-take-all primaries with the radical left, where the left is better organized and motivated.
Instead of ending the Republican Party let us join together as NYC Republicans, build a true center-right coalition with Urban Republicans, independents and Reagan Democrats that can field strong candidates to run against the radical left, and refuse to capitulate to Establishment Democrats who want to use us and co-opt us while still verbally abusing us in the course of rendering us impotent.
248 years ago, the British Crown picked winners and losers in the colonial economy of America, creating an unjust monopoly over the tea trade. The Crown ruled that the British East India Company would have the advantage over the American colonial purveyors of tea.
In March of 2020, the New York State Legislature abdicated its authority by granting Governor Cuomo unchecked emergency powers. King George III picked winners and losers in colonial America and discarded the rights of the people, and today King Cuomo, in crushing the backbone of small businesses across the state, has accomplished the same feat.
Over the last 10 months many New York City small businesses and restaurants have closed their doors for good. The ones that are left are on life support. Half of the 6,000 restaurants in Queens, and countless small businesses throughout the state, may not survive the forced Cuomo shutdown.
The essence of a free and democratic society is based on checks and balances on power. Queens County is one of New York State’s 62 counties. Queens suffers from absolute control by one political party. There are no checks on power and Queens legislators at the city and state level cower at King Cuomo’s exalted powers. At the end of this political gamesmanship rests the fate of the New York City small business community. After thousands of small businesses shutter their doors, the autopsy will reveal the true cause of death to put on the toe tag of each dream which was known as a small business. In varying degrees, many counties across the state have suffered the same fate.
A case in point is Antun’s of Queens Village, which is not just a catering house, but a community institution that has been serving all cultures from the greater New York area for generations. Now, like so many other businesses and restaurants here in Queens and throughout the state, they are struggling to survive. Antun’s employs hundreds of staff from the local Queens County region. Because of the arbitrary and capricious dictates of King Cuomo and the politicians who bow at his feet, not only has Antun’s cut its staff down to nothing, but its entire business ecosystem has been affected. Typically, on New Year’s Eve they hire about 100 wait staff to cater to the merriment. This year, zero.
This is not about stopping the spread of COVID. Something else is going on. Widely reported transmission data shows that only 1.3% of new COVID cases come from restaurants and bars, while 74% come from private in-home gatherings. But Governor Cuomo issues emergency directives that do not follow the science and data, and absentee politicians in our one-party town surrender without a fight for the people who elected them to office.
The New York State Legislature handed over absolute power to King Cuomo. This is eerily similar to the pre-Revolutionary War era when the British were cracking down on the merchant class in America. King George III and the British Parliament strangled colonial merchants by passing laws taxing products sold in the American colonies including tea, and authorized a monopoly on the American tea trade to eliminate competition. The Boston Tea Party of 1773 was a revolt of the merchant class against the oppressive policies of the British, which led to further “Coercive Acts,” and the shutdown of merchant shipping in Boston and establishment of British military rule.
This led to the American Revolution, from which our country was born, based on the struggle of small merchants against government oppression, for the sake of liberty. Small businesses and restaurants today face the same oppressive government overreach as the American colonies. Now our politicians, elected by the people, want to throw 250 years of our history down the drain, refusing to stand up to a New York Governor who is acting very much like the tyrannical British King.
Governor Cuomo declared a state of emergency back in March and since then has issued dozens of “decrees” including the shutdown of restaurants and bars, and authorized which businesses and regions are essential, and which are not. In Nassau which has higher COVID rates than Queens, restaurants are open at 50% capacity. Just like George III, King Cuomo picks winners and losers, and Queens politicians, under one-party rule, willingly oblige.
Just over the border, Nassau County Executive Laura Curran (D) has an open invitation for Queens residents to drive out east and dine in Nassau, where restaurants are open and staying alive. Triple Crown Diner in Bellerose, Queens is closed while restaurants across the street in Bellerose, Nassau are open. Lights were out on New Year’s Eve in Floral Park on the Queens side, but on the Nassau side of the street, the lights were on, and people were happily ringing in the New Year. King Cuomo picks winners and losers on the Queens-Nassau borderline, and in similar localities throughout New York State.
Although a Democrat, Laura Curran is fighting for her constituents, and wants her business community to survive. The difference is that Nassau County has a two-party system with a thriving Republican Party to keep the opposition accountable. If Queens had a two-party system, restaurants would be likewise be open at 50% capacity and our local politicians would come out of hiding and end their silence. Similarly, the Democrat supermajority one-party system in Albany poses a dangerous threat to businesses all across New York State.
But we must not be silent. We will support our small businesses and demand fairness. We must open the economy and stop the tyranny of government overreach. We will work towards ending one-party rule in Queens and throughout the state, and elect Republicans who will go to bat for their constituents. With two robust political parties, all small businesses would be treated as essential, and our communities would prosper and thrive. We call on all fellow citizens to join the struggle for the very survival of our business community.
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Phil Orenstein is the president of the Queens Village Republican Club. Established in 1875, it is America’s oldest Republican Club. www.QVGOP.org Historian, Jerry Matacotta, founder of History Seminar Series at Queensborough Community College was the advisor for this article.
Despite the hatred by the left who can never credit Trump with having done anything right, we present his record of great achievements:
*Enacted the largest tax cuts and reforms in American history.
*Set and broke record highs of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500 and NASDAQ,
*Withdrew from the job-and-trade-killing Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and NAFTA, replacing it with the new U.S.-Canada-Mexico Trade Agreement. Brought back manufacturing industry to the U.S. and increased “Made in the U.S.A.” production while securing access to new markets for America’s farmers. Also withdrew from the job-killing Paris climate agreement, which would have cost the U.S. nearly $3 trillion and led to 6.5 million fewer industrial sector jobs by 2040.
*Stopped the insane vassal-lord dysfunctional and lopsided China-U.S. relationship, confronting China’s unfair trade practices after years of Washington looking the other way.
*Reached record low unemployment rates for African-American, Hispanic and Asian-Americans prior to the pandemic and returning now to the policies to resurrect them.
*Improved U.S. health care: Eliminated health insurance tax, medical devices tax, Cadillac tax, largest decrease of prescription drug costs in a half century, signed the most comprehensive childhood cancer legislation ever into law, which will advance childhood cancer research and improve treatments. Enacted changes to the Medicare 340B program, saving seniors an estimated $320 million on drugs in 2018 alone.
*Signed groundbreaking Criminal Justice Reform. Secured and protected the U.S. Constitution: Utilized executive privilege and legislative assistance to further secure religious freedoms as well as rights of the unborn with unprecedented presidential passion. Rated by Heritage Foundation as one of the greatest presidential advocates of our Second Amendment rights.
*Built and bolstered 415 miles of new border wall at the U.S. southern border.
*Appointed three amazing and scholarly justices to the U.S. Supreme Court.
*Confirmed more than 220 federal judges who interpret the Constitution as written.
*Built up and bolstering all U.S. military branches around the world and defeating ISIS and other extremists, killing ISIS leader al Baghdadi, Qassem Soleimani, Hamza bin Laden, Qassim al-Rimi, and freeing from captivity more than a dozen American hostages from all over the world. Launched U.S. Space Force as a new branch of the military and relaunched the National Space Council.
*Built up and bolstered America’s standing and strength in the International Community: Withdrew from shady Iran nuclear deal, moved the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, initiated Israel-UAE (and other surrounding nations) accord, providing more stability and commerce in the Middle East.
*Conducted historic summit with North Korean President Kim Jong-un, bringing beginnings of peace and denuclearization to the Korean Peninsula. Held the Cuban regime accountable for political oppression and human rights abuses.
*Signed the VA Accountability Act, improving health care for veterans.
Queens Village Eagle, January 2021, Cover Story by Alex Amoroso
Eight long years of ineffective and pathetic leadership are finally coming to a close. Most New Yorkers can agree that the de Blasio administration has been a disaster for New York City. While de Blasio was elected to work for the advancement of the people of New York, he worked for nobody but himself. Instead of working for New Yorkers he engaged in petty squabbles with other politicians. Instead of working to remedy New York’s floundering public school system, he promoted overtly racist policies that deepened the racial divisions in our country. He proudly spat on New York’s finest and presided over the sharpest increase in crime in decades. He allowed the homeless and needy to aimlessly wander the streets. He oversaw the decimation of New York’s economy and the flight of thousands from our city. It is safe to say de Blasio, his acolytes in the city council, and his financial enablers have run this city into the ground after decades of painstakingly trying to bring it back to life.
New York was not in a good place after the 2008 recession. In eight years de Blasio accelerated trends that Mayor Giuliani and Mayor Bloomberg spent twenty years trying to avoid. People are fleeing New York in droves. Everyday New York City loses a net average of 300 people, and the reasons for this flight from New York are evident. Our schools are failing, one in every four students fail to graduate high school on time. Barely 60% of our children are proficient in English and mathematics. Instead of allocating the necessary resources such as updated textbooks, school supplies, technology, critical school renovations and increased staff numbers, de Blasio and his goon Chancellor Carranza try to implement forms of neo-segregationist and racially discriminatory policies targeting White and Asian students with laser beam precision. Instead of trying to uplift struggling students from impoverished backgrounds, the mayor chooses to bring down students who are not.
Currently there is an exploding homeless population. Over 50,000 New Yorkers are homeless, many of them children. Many go not knowing when their next meal will be. Many are facing substance abuse or have mental health issues that are going untreated. While shelters, charities, and nonprofits desperately need funding, de Blasio sees it more fit to disperse people, many struggling with mental health and substance abuse issues, in hotels across residential neighborhoods praying that the problem will magically disappear. Instead of providing substantive solutions such as rent controls, rezoning, the deregulation of the construction industry to remedy New York’s chronic housing shortage, de Blasio and the Democrats at large run and hide from our problems or engage in a propaganda war hoping we will not realize.
For decades New York City struggled with crime. At one point New York City was one of the most dangerous cities in North America. Just when New York was finally getting its crime pandemic under control de Blasio came in and unravelled a half century of work in months. Instead of encouraging our men and women in uniform he used his microphone as mayor to spew hatred and venom at police. His words gave terrorist the green light to attack and murder those who are sworn to protect us. Infamously in 2017 as one of New York’s finest, Officer Miosotis Familia lay dying in St. Barnabas Hospital, de Blasio thought it was more important to be in Germany rioting with his fellow anarchist, socialist and communist. In 2020 as these same radicals pillaged their way through New York and the rest of the country, destroying everything in their wake he did not denounce them for looting, assault and the spread of coronavirus, he openly gave them his blessing.
The failure of de Blasio’s economic agenda has destroyed New York’s already stumbling economy. His model of discouraging business, lack of infrastructure investment, tax and spend, spend more than you have, and spend on programs and projects the city does not need has been a disaster. When people fleeing New York City are asked why they are fleeing, the number one reason is the high taxes. It is one thing to tax at high rates in exchange for meaningful social programs and tangible results, but we do not get that, instead our money disappears. These high taxes are causing the rich to leave the city and even the state. 50% of New York City’s taxes come from 1% of New York’s population. This flight of the upper and middle class has not only caused the inflation of New York’s deficit, it increases the tax burden on everyday New Yorkers who are already strapped for cash.
New York is better than this. New York can do better. It is time for New York to turn a new leaf. Many say New York is dead, however I would strongly disagree. Being the eternal optimist that I am, New York is not dead. New York is the greatest city in the world. The capital of the world cannot die. If New Yorkers band together and work to elect principled leaders with real ideas, real solutions and who want to work for we the people, New York will be able to find herself back on track.
Alex Amoroso is a Young Republican currently attending Queens High School for Language Studies, a Catechism Teacher at Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church, and member of the Queens Village Republican Club. Alex is planning to run as a Republican candidate for New York City Council in District #23. He can be reached at alexamoroso4nyc@gmail.com
by Frederick R. Bedell Jr., Grand Knight of St. Anastasia Knights of Columbus Council #5911
Editor’s Note: this was written over a month ago, but is still as much of a heartwarming read right before Christmas Eve. A very Merry Christmas to all our members, readers, friends and families!
Christmas is next month, and there is much for many of us to think about, and that is gifts to buy and the cards that need to be sent out and the many decorations that need to be hanged around our homes. But for myself it is a time to reflect about the troubles in the world and our nation. Like our nation at war, terrorists seeking to harm innocents people, not to mention the great loss of lives due to the COVID-19 virus that has taken over 200,000 lives in our country alone and thousands more world-wide.
I also think of racial unrest. The message of the season is,’ peace on Earth and goodwill toward men.” Yet where is it ? This is when many of us reflect on the gentler times in our past. My memories take me back to 1957, it was the Cold World, but at eight years old I didn’t care nor much understand those things.
I was living in a corner house in Queens Village with my mother and father and two elderly boarders my mother would care for. We didn’t have much money but always had a good Christmas – full of love and sharing and plenty of music, which my mother said, “was tonic for the soul.”
A few evenings before Christmas my father and I set out to buy our Christmas tree, but my father’s car would not start. It was a cold, crisp and snow was falling on the ground. My father had a idea so my mother wouldn’t be disappointed: We took my sled to a place where they sold Christmas trees on Francis Lewis Boulevard which was about a half a mile away. And with the snow on the ground this adventure was a done deal. When we got there, my father picked out a beautiful six-footer, we tied it on top of my sled and took it home to our house on 213th Street. We proceeded to sing Christmas carols all the way home. Back at home my mother had a special place in front of the fireplace for the tree. Our job was done once it was settled in the stand, then my mother took over, decorating it with love and devotion to every detail.
Kindness and love seemed to bounce from house to house in those days, and neighbors greeted one another with a,” Merry Christmas,” as carolers sang from house to house. Churches were beaming with worshipers. I myself sang in the choir. Christmas meant a lot back than, and I can’t help but wonder if that kind of Christmas will ever return. The picture perfect Christmases of our memories may have been laced with imperfections, but I still think that they were better than the frenzied days we have now. I can’t help but hope and pray that America returns to family values, and to live out the true meaning of Christmas which is peace, kindness and goodwill to all we meet. May God bless you all and God bless America.
Sincerely Yours, Frederick R. Bedell Jr. Bellerose, N.Y.
I hope all our club members, families and friends are enjoying a cheerful Chanukah and Christmas holiday season. We have a lot to celebrate! We wish everyone a most happy, healthy, and prosperous New Year as we enter 2021, and leave 2020 in the dust.
As we put the lid on the old, and kick off the New Year, it’s important to reaffirm the mission and principles of America’s oldest Republican club. Simply put, it is to uphold and spread the principles of the Republican Party and elect strong Republicans who uphold these principles, which we consistently list at the beginning of every club meeting.
We affirm our total support for our Police and Firefighters, and for our great President Donald Trump and his America First agenda. We believe President Trump won re-election by a landslide of legal votes and we won’t give up until the massive voter fraud is exposed and overturned. The election is still far from over, and we will keep up the fight until we see President Trump inaugurated on January 20 for four more years of American greatness!
2020 has been a good year for us as a club, despite the outbreak of the virus, tyrannical lockdowns, restaurants closing, crime and chaos, rioting mobs and destruction, and people flooding the exits to leave our once great City of New York. Through it all, we’ve been out in public sharing folks’ worries and frustrations, and encouraging fellow patriots that the Republican Party is alive and well in Queens!
Recalling the opening months of 2020, as the pandemic suddenly hit us with a vengeance, we held a virtual Lincoln Dinner for the first time ever. Every year we put together a gala Lincoln Dinner at Antun’s with hundreds in attendance. Together with nationally renowned speakers, local heroes, and honorees, we celebrate Abraham Lincoln, the first Republican president and founder of our Party in a great display of patriotism and unity. This year our keynote speaker was to be Steve Bannon and guest speaker, the British freedom fighter, Katie Hopkins.
However due to the pandemic, one week before the event in March, Antun’s was ordered to shut down and there would be no dinner party. But our Ways and Means committee came together immediately and rapidly switched gears and organized the great event on Zoom.
It was an amazing success story, setting the example of triumph over adversity. It’s significant that some beautiful personal success stories emerged. After being fittingly honored and recognized, our Businessman of the Year, Mike Amvros, owner of the famous Oasis Café in Bayside, was deeply encouraged to forge ahead and overcome his setback of a debilitating illness and business shut down. He determined to fight back and emerged thriving financially and enjoyed extraordinary success in the later half of the year.
Also noteworthy, was our World War II Veteran of the Year honoree, Sgt. Philip Kahn, who had turned 100 prior to his appearance at the virtual event where he proudly spoke about how honored he was to be able to serve the U.S.A. in the Pacific Theater as a co-pilot on Iwo Jima, alongside so many of the most courageous Americans who have ever lived. Shortly after the gala event, he passed away due to the virus, and its significance strangely enough, bookended a century since his twin brother died from the Spanish Flu in 1920. View the entire video of the extraordinary virtual event on our website, including our incredible honorees, Dawn Eskew, recipient of the Sanctity of Life Award, Religious Freedom honoree, Rabbi Menashe Bovit, and the inimitable Gavin Wax, Young Republican of the Year, and others.
We kept making headway through the brutal winter and spring months of the pandemic. We held topical monthly Zoom club meetings with great speakers, such as Gordon Chang illuminating the threat of China, Curtis Sliwa founder of the Guardian Angels, now running for mayor, and many more.
We also had a session with Congresswoman-elect Nicole Malliotakis, on her road to victory. At her request, we brought a team down to Bay Ridge Brooklyn for a Day of Action and knocked on doors of all voters, to Get Out the Vote. She has just created the “Freedom Force” in the House to fight against AOC, the Squad, and Socialism, and will be giving us an update at our January 7th meeting.
On to the summer, after months in isolation, it was great to see everyone at our club’s electrifying dinner meeting at the Triple Crown Diner tent, with local Republican candidates and Bevelyn Beatty, a courageous young patriot who spread paint across the BLM mural on 5th Ave. We held an outdoor backyard meeting to “Salute our Police,” with our member, Lawrence Block and his Zuckery Bo Band, performing “It’s Just a Matter of Time,” blasting the lockdown and oppressive government overreach. All our Lincoln Dinner honorees were there as well to receive their awards in person.
We participated in “Support our Local Police” rallies, car caravans, the “Save Teddy” protest, and we even went to campaign for President Trump in the battleground state of PA with Diane Atkins, co-chair of the Mighty American Strike Force for New York.
We answered the tyrannical authorities and the anarchist mobs, with incisive press releases, targeted calling campaigns, talk radio and TV appearances, and articles which were published nationally on such topics as the unconstitutional lockdown and contract tracing fiasco, standing up for our police, and standing against the “defund the police” insanity, urging the exodus of Jewish voters from the Party of socialism and anti-Semitism, blasting the mob attacks on our private property rights, and many others.
Due to the pandemic, we missed our annual Historic Bus Tour, nor could we participate in local parades, but we have exciting events lined up for 2021 and expect the best to come. Please join our club if you’re not already a member. Please donate to support our work to make Queens Republican again! Through our efforts we will build and galvanize our fellow Republicans. Most of all keep the faith, stay strong and never lose hope. We will prevail!
Written By Sam Jacobs — November 19, 2020. Published upon the request and permission of libertasbella.com
Editors Note: “Libertas Bella” or simply “beautiful liberty” caters to America’s lovers of Liberty. Standing for the “sanctity of the vote as a bedrock of a functioning representative democracy,” they have written an article on their website to challenge the rampant misinformation with factual information backing up their claims with actual facts and proven statistics. Herein is part of the article. Please read full article and return for important updates.
Regardless of where one falls politically, the sanctity of the vote is a bedrock of a functioning representative democracy. Voters have to believe their vote matters. And that the vote is free, fair, and accurate.
The basic facts of the 2020 American Presidential election are concerning because mounting evidence indicates there’s been a concerted effort by state Democratic Parties to flip the election from President Donald Trump to former Vice President Joe Biden in a number of key swing states with the help of notoriously corrupt Democratic Party machines in at least five American cities — Detroit, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, Pittsburg, and Atlanta.
Here are the basic facts of the case: On Election Night when America went to bed, President Trump had a commanding lead in virtually every swing state, as well as Virginia, which no one expected him to win. However, when America woke up the next day, we found that he’d lost these leads, largely on the basis of mail-in ballots found in the middle of the night and out from under the watchful eye of legal election monitors.
What’s more, these massive caches of votes – almost all of which were for former Vice President Biden – came via large dumps primarily from the five aforementioned cities in states predominantly run by Democratic governors.
When one looks at the statistical likelihood of the reported turnout, the numbers are so improbable they’re more at home in a one-party state like Saddam Hussein’s Iraq or North Korea.
Anecdotally, swing states tend to follow Florida in terms of swinging left or right. This is particularly true in Michigan, which has voted in lockstep with Florida since 1968. Nearly three dozen states had counting machines connected to the Internet during the election, which is inherently insecure. Joe Biden’s lead among mail-in ballots was massive in two states — Michigan and Pennsylvania — while it was in the single digits in most states.
Below we explore the details and the data of what happened across the nation on Election Day, with flagrant and often sloppy irregularities occurring from coast to coast. Elsewhere we explore similar efforts in the key swing states of Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Georgia.
All of the posts in this series will be updated as more credible information is uncovered.
The General Landscape of American Election Fraud
The media is trying to weave a narrative with ever-shifting goalposts. They began by saying that not only did voter fraud not happen, but that it’s impossible. Now, they have shifted their story to saying that there is always minor fraud, but that it never really matters much.
Another narrative in the controlled media is that illegal aliens and other non-citizens don’t vote. This is patently untrue. In fact, they vote at alarmingly high rates. A 2019 study found that approximately 2.2 percent of respondents admitted to voting illegally, which implies a little under a million ballots cast by non-citizens every year.
The counterargument is that respondents are either lying or misunderstood the question, but this is simply not true — those who conducted the study verified their votes.
So we can see that electoral fraud is not only possible, it is common. It is not negligible, it has determined elections in living memory. With this as our backdrop, we will now investigate voter irregularities throughout the nation during the 2020 Presidential election.
What Constitutes Evidence of Electoral Fraud?
Before going further, it is worth discussing what constitutes evidence for electoral fraud. Well, the Carter Center has a set of standards that they use to determine whether or not there has been electoral fraud somewhere.
These are the standards used by globalists to determine whether or not elections they disapprove of have been conducted fraudulently. Several of them are present in the contested states:
Counting procedures should be verifiable.
Votes should be presented for independent review.
Elections should be subject to recounts.
Additionally, the Carter Center states that it is the right of dissidents to challenge and question the results of an election that they believe to be fraudulent. Harassing dissidents is considered evidence of chicanery in and of itself.
“Effective redress” is the term they use and it is considered by the Carter Center to be vital for establishing an election as legitimate. The resistance of the Democratic Party to recounts and audits should be a red flag in and of itself.
There are also mathematical anomalies that are worth looking into because, regardless of turnout and outcome, elections will follow certain patterns. One of these is that, because of mail sorting, mail-in ballots will consistently show the same ratio of support for each candidate. We did not see that, however — there is a significant spike in support for Biden and fall off in support for President Trump as Election Night dragged on.
Indeed, in Wisconsin, this anomaly became massive around 4 a.m., the same time that the massive ballot drops without supervision began. The same phenomenon occurred in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Georgia, all four of these states with copious amounts of electoral chicanery and irregularity. Virginia was another state with similar mathematical irregularities.
Benford’s Law is another area where we see mathematical irregularities. Put simply: When we have large datasets of numbers, there is a pattern we can find with regard to the final and penultimate digit of each number in this data set.
Benford’s Law analysis is one of the first things run by forensic accountants looking for financial malfeasance or tax cheating.
Many of the electoral tallies in disputed states violate Benford’s Law — but only for Joe Biden, whose distribution more closely resembles the curve when people type “random” numbers in. President Trump, Jo Jorgensen, Howie Hawkins, and Kanye West’s numbers do not violate this law, but former Vice President Biden’s do in disputed areas.
One recurring theme throughout the 2020 election is the glitch. There have been a number of glitches, many detailed in our series on irregularities in different states. This, in and of itself might not be cause for concern — however, in every case, these so-called “software glitches” favor former Vice President Biden at the expense of President Donald Trump.
Again, we have detailed these in our state series article, but we will mention some here just to give you a general idea of what has been going on with these “glitches.”
One in Michigan sent 6,000 votes to Biden that were meant for Donald Trump. Another in Wisconsin, robbed Donald Trump of 19,500 votes. Another similar glitch in Georgia saw an unspecified number of votes go to Biden that were, once again, meant for the President.
There appears to be a pattern here. Were these all bona fide mistakes, we would likely find votes that were meant to go for Joe Biden going to Donald Trump before the situation was corrected. But we are unaware of any such error in favor of the President.
The common denominator? The voting software used to calculate the vote made by a company with deep connections to the DNC. Read the rest.
Editor’s Note: This is syndicated columnist Robert Golomb’s latest column as published in the news and media outlet, The Published Reporter
Michael Codella, first a mob wannabe, later became a plain clothes narcotics cop working undercover to stop drug trafficking in some of the most dangerous neighborhoods of New York City. Photo taken as Codella prepares to meet Coney Island drug dealers, circa 1990. Photo credit to Michael Codella.
NEW YORK, NY – Back in the crime ridden NYC of the early 1980’s, a teenaged Michael Codella was deciding what career path to pursue. By the time he had reached his 20th birthday in 1982, Codella had reduced the choices to just two. Like his NYC Police Officer father, also named Mike Codella, he could become a cop. Or like a number of his close friends in his mob infested Brooklyn Canarsie neighborhood, he could join the Mafia.
Columnists rarely write stories about the lives of mob guys, so if you guessed that Codella became a cop, you would be correct. More importantly, if you read Codella’s book, Alpha Ville 1988: Welcome to Heroin City, which he co-authored in 2010 with journalist Bruce Bennet, you would probably understand why the story of Codella – first as a mob wannabe, and later as a plain clothes narcotics cop working undercover to stop drug trafficking in some of the most dangerous neighborhoods of New York City – was so compelling that Hollywood producers came close (albeit not close enough) to making the book shortly after its release in 2010 into a movie.
With what I had learned is renewed interest in the project in Hollywood, through some detective work of my own, I was able to contact Codella, whom I interviewed in his Staten Island home by telephone last week.
Loosely following the sequence of the book, Codella began our talk by describing his troubled teenage years.
“The Canarsie I grew up in was half mob and half NYPD,’’ he explained. “Most of the guys I chose to run with, though, were the sons of Wise Guys, who aspired to become just like their fathers.”
“I was no better than them,” continued Codella. “By the time I was 17, I was doing some bad things on 42nd Street and got shot at, but luckily missed, by a pimp,” Codella stated. “Around that same time, I was beating some tough amateur fighters in a local boxing gym. My name became known as a tough guy to a Gotti henchman and killer named Eddie Lino… He asked me to heist a local bar. And I took him up on his offer. So you see, my life could have taken a totally different path.”
Even though I had read in the book about the criminal background of his maternal grandfather, the decency of his father, and how it was his father who convinced him to become a cop, hearing it over the phone as Codella retold it was like listening to the incredible story for the first time.
“I didn’t know it back then when I was hanging out with the young wise guys, but found out about it years later when I was already a cop, and it hit me like a ton of bricks. My grandfather on my mother’s side, Giovanni Privetera, was a feared, respected and well-known Mafia associate, whose main turf was the Lower East Side of Manhattan,” stated Codella.
“So well- known and respected,” Codella went-on, “that New York’s first Godfather, “Joe ‘The Boss’ Masseria would borrow my grandfather’s stick pin to wear on mob sit downs. So well-known and respected that Lucky Luciano would bounce my mother and her 3 siblings, now my aunts and uncles, on his knee when visiting the after-hours social club that my grandfather owned.”
Still as attentive as I would have been had I not read the book, I listened intently as Codella explained what made him choose to lead a life that emulated that of his police officer father, rather than one that (while unknowingly to him at the time) followed the crime ridden path of his grandfather and his mob hopeful young friends in Canarsie.
“As I turned 20, I had a rude awakening. My tough guy friends from Canarsie were ending up in jail, on the lam or in cemeteries. By then, realizing the sorrow, horror and immorality of living a mob life, I listened to the advice of my father, who dreamed that I, just like he had for 20 years, become a police officer,’’Codella stated.
As Codella detailed in the book and reiterated to me, it was a decision which, within 2 years of becoming a cop, placed him in the middle of NYPD’s war against murderous drug dealers.
“I was sworn in as a Police Officer on July 28, 1983 and was assigned to a precinct in Coney Island. That, as you might remember, was a time when illegal drug trade and the muggings, robberies, overdose deaths and murders that were its deadly spawn were running wild,” Codella recalled.
“So sometime in late 1984,” Codella elaborated, “at my request I was transferred to a command in Manhattan’s Lower East Side’s Alphabet City- ironically, in the same general area that my grandfather once controlled. After working there as a patrol officer for a year, I was promoted to a plain clothes federally funded narcotics unit called ‘Operation 8.’ This elite unit was formed and operated to end the narcotics trade in the Lower East Side, focusing mainly on Alphabet City, then known to law enforcement as the heroin capital of the world.”
It was mainly in the mean streets and housing projects of Alphabet City – the stretch of Manhattan land extending through Avenues A, B, C and D, and running between 14th Street in the north, Houston in the south and the FDR Parkway in the east – which, first just the two of them, and later in partnership with the DEA, Codella and his undercover police partner, “Gio,” risked their lives to arrest drug dealers and permanently take them off the streets that they once ran.
Michael Codella in the DEA while preparing for a drug buy, circa 1989.Photo credit to Michael Codella.
“There were several drug lords and hundreds of drug dealers running the drug trade in the lower East Side and Alphabet City. Together they made life miserable for the tens of thousands of decent mostly poor and lower – and middle- class people who lived in public housing apartments there,” Codella explained.
“The crime was so rampant,” he continued, “that mothers could not stroll down the streets with their infants without the fear of being robbed by drug addicts. Kids could not play in the streets and parks without fear of being caught in the middle of a drive-by shooting. And the elderly could not leave their apartments without fear of being mugged or murdered for the few dollars they were carrying in their pockets.”
There would, as Codella proudly noted, soon be good news for the good people in those once tragic neighborhoods and bad news for the criminals.
“As I described in the book,” Codella stated, “working undercover, Gio and I provided the brass with intelligence that resulted in the arrest and successful prosecution of hundreds of drug dealers.”
“With that,” he added, “the good people of the lower East Side and Alphabet City were beginning to feel safer. I was however, feeling a little less safe myself: around that time, drug dealers put a $50,000 bounty on my head.’’
Even while living with that bounty on his head, Codella and his partner were unhesitant to join a DEA unit in 1987 to help complete the job they had started.
“The opportunity to work with the DEA, which made Gio and I the first New York cops to be assigned to partner with this agency in a non- task force capacity, made me forget about the price being put on my head,” recalled Codella.
It turned out, Codella told me just as he described in the book, to be a partnership which within only one year led to arrests of the major drug lord in the area along with approximately 40 of his drug-dealing underlings. After those arrests and successful prosecutions, law, order and safety had finally returned to the people of these once crime ridden communities.
“It was an incredible feeling,” exclaimed Codella, “for every officer in the unit to see the good people of those communities feel safe again.”
Codella’s drug fighting partnership (this time without Gio at his side) with the DEA did not end there. Codella stated that from 1989-1992 working once again as undercover cop with the DEA, he arrested and brought to justice the major drug lords and dozens of their hired dealers in the then drug ridden Washington Heights, the Red Hook projects and in the same streets of Coney Island, where he had once patrolled as a rookie cop.
“Putting these monsters in the prisons where they belonged allowed the decent law-abiding people in those communities to live safe and normal lives. Accomplishing that, gave me a feeling of pride, just like Alphabet City and the Lower East Side of Manhattan all over again,” Codella reflected.
It wasn’t to be the final sensation of pride for his work and dedication as a police officer that Codella would feel. Before his retirement in 2003 with the rank of Detective Sergeant, Codella worked in the Secret Service Task Force, the Special Frauds Squads and the Missing Persons Unit.
“Throughout my entire career whether working undercover in narcotics and my later assignments with other task forces and squads, I am very proud of the fact that I went to work for 20 years as a police officer and made a very positive difference in the lives of so many people,”
As you might have expected, a high-powered guy like Codella did not choose to live a leisurely life after his retirement. In addition to co-writing his 304-page tome, Codella has provided private security for a number of celebrities (contractually required to be unnamed) and other high-profile clients, and utilizing his vast experience in law-enforcement, has served as a special consultant to writers and producers of several police genre television shows.
“As a cop I never went to work to simply earn a paycheck,” Codella asserted. “But after my retirement, I was very happy to be handsomely paid for my two new lines of work [personal security and TV consultation].”
Still, it is his third line of post police officer work that Codella is most proud of. A 3rd Degree Black Belt in Gracie/Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, Codella, owns and operates an Academy of that same name in Staten Island. But Codella, the married father of three, was proud to note that the academy, which before the COVID-19 epidemic had an enrollment of approximately 150 students, is a true family affair.
“The Academy is a family business. I run it in equal partnership with my beautiful wife Rita, my daughter Bianca, who is a New York City teacher and my young adult sons, Marco and Santino, who are accomplished Black Belts,” stated Codella.
As those last words of Codella punctuated the end of the 60-minute interview, I realized there were so many important details in the book, which he and I did not have the time (and, for me, the space on these pages) to get to.
But if interested, you can learn further details about the life and career of Codella if you read Alphaville 1988: Welcome to Heroin City, and, or, if you wait until the book is finally made into a movie.
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We celebrated the joy of the holiday season with our annual Christmas/Chanukah Party at Nancy’s Restaurant in person! Joining us were a few Republican candidates, Scherie Murray, Giovanni Perna and Ragini Shrivastava who ran courageous campaigns in local districts. Our featured guest speakers, Diane Atkins and Rev. Daniel Ulysse gave us encouraging guidance and inpired us to realize we have a lot to celebrate!
Rev. Daniel Ulysse
Daniel Ulysse, guest speaker at Queens Village Republican Club’s Christmas/Chanukah Dinner Party on Dec 3, 2020, is an ordained Baptist minister, Chairman of Caribbean American Republican Assembly, President, Haitian American Republican Assembly, and Organizer for Black Voices for Trump.
Diane Atkins
Diane Atkins was guest speaker at the December 3rd Christmas/Chanukah Dinner Party of the Queens Village Republican Club. Diane is NYS Co-Chair of the Mighty American Strike Force (MASF), Campaign Manager for Cathy Bernstein for Congress and proud NYC Republican activist.
