Group Of “America’s Frontline Doctors,” Hold Press Conference At Capitol Hill About COVID-19 Calling Out “Massive Disinformation Campaign”

By Joe Mcdermott On Jul 27, 2020
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – From the steps of the US Supreme Court, a group of doctors calling themselves “America’s Frontline Doctors,” are speaking out as physicians from around the country, addressing the American people about COVID-19 and what they are calling a “massive disinformation campaign” as COVID-19 is keeping  businesses closed and schools planning to remain closed this coming September. The event is being widely recognized as the “White Coat Summit” on Capitol Hill which is scheduled to be a two-day event. It took place today, July 27, 2020.

Speakers at the event included Pediatrician Bob Hamilton, MD from Santa Monica, CA in practice 36 years. Primary Care Physician Stella Immanuel, MD from Houston, TX who stated she has treated over 350 patients with COVID-19 with not a single death. Dan Erickson, MD from California, widely recognized as one of the first to come out with his own grim findings related to misinformation which were referenced in the highly controversial and banned video Plandemic.

Interestingly, the forty-five-minute video is not easy to find through normal channels such as YouTube, Google News, and other ordinary search services. It was live streamed on Facebook and is now removed from breitbart.com.

“American life has fallen casualty to a massive disinformation campaign. We can speculate on how this has happened, and why it has continued, but the purpose of the inaugural White Coat Summit is to empower Americans to stop living in fear. If Americans continue to let so-called experts and media personalities make their decisions, the great American experiment of a Constitutional Republic with Representative Democracy, will cease.” 

 

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Remembering the Victims of Mayor De Blasio’s, New York City Council’s and a Federal Judge’s War Against the NYPD

By Robert Golomb

Editor’s Note: This is syndicated columnist Bob Golomb’s latest column as published in the news and media outlet, The Published Reporter 

Hundreds took to the streets of Manhattan protesting against police brutality after the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police. New York City, New York May 30, 2020. Editorial credit: Steve Sanchez Photos / Shutterstock.com, licensed.

NEW YORK, NY – The timing could not have been more reflective of how the racialist NYC elected officials show by their words and actions that they do not believe that black lives matter.

Three weeks ago, on Sunday night, June 28^th, 17- year old African American Brandon Hendricks was killed when gunfire broke out while he was attending a friend’s birthday party in the Bronx. As saddened New Yorkers learned from the media reports of his slaying, Brandon had been the captain of the James Monroe High School Basketball Team, and had graduated from the school just one week before. And as New Yorkers also learned, Brandon, whose last words in this world after being shot were, “call my mom,” had been recently engaged in the joyous process of deciding in which college to enroll this coming fall, trying to make the best choice out of the many vying to recruit him to play on their basketball team.

“He wanted to live,” said his grieving mother Eve Hendricks. “This was not his destiny. His destiny was to live forever and to be the greatest of all. He was very smart. He always thinks about others before his thinks about himself.”

And on the early evening of Tuesday, June 20^th, as if they had never heard the name Brandon Hendricks and never heard the words of his heart broken mother, the City Council by a 27-17 margin voted and Mayor de-Blasio soon approved slashing the NYPD’s current $6 billion budget by $1 billion, a cut which by all calculations will soon result in there being thousands of fewer officers patrolling the streets to protect our citizens, and, seemingly emboldening criminals even before the cuts were put into effect, has already led to a major increase in violent crime. 

The 17 honorable Council Members who voted against defunding the police understand this and knew what was going to happen. Among those 17 were Staten Island Republican City Council Members, Joe Borelli and Steven Matteo. Explaining his vote, Matteo stated, “Effectively gutting the NYPD and their ability to fight crime would not only severely diminish the NYPD’s capabilities, it will imperil the tremendous gains this city has made in fighting crime and keeping our residents safe.”

But Matteo’s words were not heeded by the Mayor and his 27 anti-police, race baiting fellow travelers on the Council. As if trying to assume the title of the Council’s number one police hater and race baiter, from among fierce competition from his 26 peers, Queens Democrat Council Member Donovan Richards, the probable 2020 Queens Borough President, stated, “A $1 billion budget cut can’t address the racism that runs rampant in the NYPD.”

“Racism that runs rampant in the NYPD?”

Race baiting Richards, the Mayor and the other infamous 27 should be informed that the NYPD is among the most diverse police departments in the nation: its minority officers- including Blacks, Latinos and Asians- have become the majority in the department. Beyond reading the data that proves this, Richards and his cop hating peers could be made aware of the diversity of the NYPD just by taking a walk around the streets of our city and observing the wide range of the ethnic and racial identities of our men and women in blue.

The Mayor, Richards and the other 26 should also be informed that the often repeated canard that white police officers, the new minority in the department, practice any form of racism has been totally debunked by numerous independent and governmental studies covering the interaction of the police and minority communities in NYC.

Still, perhaps it would be even more informative if the Mayor and the 27 journeyed to 180 Greenwich Street, the site of the old Twin Towers, to visit the 9/11 Memorial Museum, when it re-opens after its COVID-19 caused closure. There, they would find among approximately 11,000 9/11 artifacts, such items as helmets, shoes, wallets and photos, which once belonged to some of the 2,977 people killed that day, including 343 firefighters, and 23 NYC Police Officers.

Among those artifacts the Mayor and the 27 would see would be NYPD shield 10467, once worn by the highly decorated Officer Moira Ann Smith, 38, the only female police officer to die that day. In addition to Officer Moira, the Mayor and the 27 would be able to see the names and read the inscriptions describing the heroism on 9/11/2001 of each one of the 2 detectives, 4 sergeants and 17 officers who lost their lives after running into the north or the south towers on their mission to save the lives of people of all races, religions and creeds. To these fallen heroes all lives mattered. 

Among another one of the NYPD heroes the Mayor and the 27 might also learn about would be Sergeant Rodney Gillis, 34, a 13- year decorated veteran who served in the NYPD’s Emergency Service Unit (ESU). On that horrible morning, Sergeant Gillis raced with 4 other ESU officers to the 20^th floor of the South Towers.

Were they interested, the Mayor and the 27 would know the last words that Sergeant Gillis transmitted over the radio to officers on the street outside were, “We’re on the 20^th floor of the South Tower. We’re meeting a lot of resistance.”  Several minutes later, the South Tower collapsed, killing Sergeant Gillis and the 4 ESU officers who had raced up to the 20^th floor with him- Santos Valentin, Ronald Kloepfer, Walter Weaver and Jerome Mark Patrick Dominguez.

The Mayor and the 27 would learn from looking at the pictures engraved on the memorial plaque that Sergeant Gillis was an African American and that the 4 police officers who died with him that day came from other proud backgrounds. Perhaps then the Mayor and the 27 would come to the realization that lives of these 5 brave officers, just as their 17 other brothers and one sister who perished that day, were not defined by their race, but rather by their willingness to sacrifice their own lives in the service of people of all different races.

The Mayor and the 27 should then consider visiting FDNY Memorial Wall, where added to the list of more than 200 fireman who suffered the same fate, they could find the names of the 241 police officers who have died over the past 19 years from cancer and other horrible diseases directly linked to the deadly toxins they inhaled the days following the attack while on a search and rescue for all of God’s lost children of 9/11.

But I must sadly concede that because it would expose to them to the self-evident truth of the heroism and humanity of the NYPD, the Mayor and the 27 would almost certainly never venture to 180 Greenwich Street. Rather, they prefer spreading lies about the men and women who risk their lives every day protect us. Still, they are not the first nor the only liars with titles and power.

The first disgusting and deadly lie about the NYPD was first spread on August 12, 2013 by U.S. District Court Judge Shira Scheindlin, when she ruled that the NYPD’s Stop-Question and Frisk program (SQF) was unconstitutional and was being used by the police to unfairly target Blacks and Latinos. The program of Scheindlin’s ire, which was first prioritized by Mayor Rudy Giuliani (1993-2001) and even further employed by the NYPD under Mayor Bloomberg (2002-2013) allowed police to detain, question and frisk people, whom they suspected were carrying weapons.        

Writing in her 195 – page ruling that between 2004-2012, Blacks and Latinos, who made up 50% of New York’s population at the time, accounted for 80% of the NYPD’s SQF stops, the judge concluded that the NYPD was guilty of racist practices, which she ordered, must be stopped at once. Scheindlin’s ruling offered a perfect illustration of the axiom “omission is the greatest form of a lie.” Omitted from her ruling was data which showed that the number of SQF stops made against Blacks and Latinos while they were in predominately minority communities directly correlated with the number of reports of gun violence in those same communities.              

Also omitted from Scheindlin’s ruling was the fact that, in 1990 alone, there were 2,445 murders in NYC; in contrast, by the end of 2013, the same year of her ruling, the murder rate had dropped to 333. According to a broad consensus of police officials and criminologists, this unprecedented reduction of murders was attributed in large part to SQF. 

In fact, so convinced that SQF had played a major role in making New York City the safest large municipality in the country, Bloomberg just 4 days after the judge’s ruling, appealed it to a higher federal court. Explaining why he decided to submit that appeal, Bloomberg stated simply, “I wouldn’t want to be responsible for any people dying.”

That appeal enabled the NYPD to continue to employ SQF for another year. But the legal battle to save SQF (which Bloomberg in his recent quixotic bid to win the Democratic nomination for president shamefully disavowed) ended in 2014, when Bloomberg’s successor, Mayor de Blasio (2013-Present), decided to withdraw the appeal. That decision surprised only those who were unaware of the Mayor’s hard-core leftist beliefs.

As he believed then, de Blasio, whose 25-year-old daughter has joined the current anti-police protests and who has proudly spoken of warning his bi-racial teenage son to fear the NYPD, it was the police, not the violent criminals they arrest, who are the enemy of Black and Latino people.          

Continuing to hold that view from his first year in office up to the present, this past June 15th de Blasio ordered Police Commissioner Dermot Shea to disband NYPD’s Anti-Crime Unit (ACU), even though, despite his disdain for the police, he must have known that the 600 undercover officer unit had over the past almost 3 decades succeeded in seizing thousands of guns from violent criminals, saving the lives of thousands of their potential victims.

Presumably knowing the past success of the ACU, it should have come as little surprise to the Mayor and the 27 who cheered him on that since the unit’s disbandment less than a month ago, gun violence has exploded throughout the city at a level not seen since the pre-Giuliani era. Nor should it have come as a surprise to them that the 3 lethal components of stupidity- defunding the police, abolishing a vital unit along with a horrendous federal judge’s horrendous decision 7 years ago – would lead to the death of so many innocents.

The list of the names of of the innocents are added to the records of the City Morgue almost every day. Those innocents, the Mayor and the 27 should know, were all Black or Latino, and every one of them, just like Brandon Hendricks, deserved to live a full, happy and productive life. 

So before the Mayor and the 27 continue maligning the NYPD, they should think about those innocents whose lives have been lost as a direct result of these so called leaders deadly misguided anti-police policies. There have been so many victims, so perhaps the Mayor and the 27 should begin by thinking about just 3, whose blood, like the rest, they have on their hands.

They should think about 19-year old Erica Lopez. Erica was fatally shot in the chest in the vicinity of 23^rd Street and Fifth Ave in Manhattan around midnight on Friday, June 28^th– a day in a week which was preceded by 58 shootings in NYC. Police officials reported that Lopez was standing with a 21 year-old man who was also hit by a bullet. Not seriously injured, the same man reportedly later told Erica’s family that she had sacrificed her own life by pushing him out of the way after hearing the sound of gun fire. “She took a bullet for him” said Erica’s best friend, Alma Corona. “She died a hero.”

19-year old Erica Lopez. Erica was fatally shot in the chest in the vicinity of 23rd Street and Fifth Ave in Manhattan around midnight on Friday, June 28th– a day in a week which was preceded by 58 shootings in NYC. Credit: NYDailyNews.com

They should think about 22-year old Terrence Bazile. Terrence was shot dead around mid-night, Wednesday, July 1^st on a street in Canarsie, Brooklyn. The next morning neighbors reportedly heard his mother over a phone outside her house, crying, “By the time I saw my son’s body, they said we had to go into the morgue.”

22-year old Terrence Bazile. Terrence was shot dead around mid-night, Wednesday, July 1st on a street in Canarsie, Brooklyn. The next morning neighbors reportedly heard his mother over a phone outside her house, crying, “By the time I saw my son’s body, they said we had to go into the morgue.” Credit GunMemorial.org.

They should think about Davell Gardner, at just 22 months the youngest victim of the carnage. Davell on Sunday, July 12^th at around 11pm was resting in a stroller at a family cookout in Bedford-Stuyvesant when 2 gunmen descended upon the gathering and began a multi-bullet attack. Struck in the stomach by one of those bullets, Davell died at a local hospital in the early morning hours the next day.

Davell Gardner Jr., at just 22 months the youngest victim of the carnage. Davell on Sunday, July 12th at around 11pm was resting in a stroller at a family cookout in Bedford-Stuyvesant when 2 gunmen descended upon the gathering and began a multi-bullet attack. Credit: Facebook.

The Mayor and the 27 need to be forever reminded of the words of Davell’s grieving father, in the days before he buried his son:

“You [his son’s killers] took my son’s life. I can’t get that back. I can’t hold him no more. I can’t hear him calling me ‘daddy’ no more. I can’t kiss him no more. I can’t play with him no more. I’ve got to put him in the ground now. He’s only one. He didn’t live to see two. He didn’t live to see life. It’s like I wanted to get him out of this violence before something like this happened.”

A question the Mayor and the 27 must answer: Have you no feelings of guilt, shame or sorrow?

Message and graphic images from Curtis Sliwa on Occupy City Hall:

Occupy City Hall, Thursday July 9, 2020

All day long Comrade Bill de Blasio spends his days painting black lives matter onto the streets of NYC.  Meantime he permits the black lives matter/antifa group to occupy city hall.  As you can see they have graffiti up all the gov’t buildings surrounding city hall.  Since all that de Blasio is capable of doing as of late is paint, let’s put his acquired skills to work. He has emasculated the police and shut down the rest of the city except for the black lives matter protests.  It would be nice for him to get out his roller and paint and begin to cover up the massive amount of anti-cop graffiti that he allows to stay up. 

Look at the one picture where the demonstrator is lynching a police officer.  Could you imagine if the roles were reversed?  ALL HELL would break loose.  Since the newly empowered CANCEL CULTURE is trying to limit free speech would this be considered free speech?

Save Teddy Roosevelt!

“This statue is of a proud American. Was he perfect? No. No one was perfect… he did a lot for this country, We’re here today because we’ve bettered ourselves as a society and we continue to better ourselves as a society. But we’ll never be able to do that anymore if we continue to tear down our history and forget our past — and we’ll be doomed to repeat it.” – Gavin Wax

A crowd of 200 patriots rallied to Save Teddy Roosevelt’s statue, in front of the American Museum of Natural History on Sunday June 28th. The “Save Teddy” rally was organized by Gavin Wax, president of the New York Young Republican Club. Many Queens people, and the Queens Village Republican Club and Whitestone Republican Club were on hand to stand up for American History and to raise our voices against the influence of the mob tearing down our statues and our shared history. 

Unlike the recent protests, which often descend into violence and mayhem, and always are accompanied by openly hateful anti-police and anti-America slurs, the diverse crowd at the Save Teddy rally were respectful, peaceful, and articulate. The New York Post quoted Gavin Wax: “This statue is of a proud American. Was he perfect? No. No one was perfect… he did a lot for this country, We’re here today because we’ve bettered ourselves as a society and we continue to better ourselves as a society. But we’ll never be able to do that anymore if we continue to tear down our history and forget our past — and we’ll be doomed to repeat it.”

The museum is bowing to a small minority of thugs who don’t know anything about American History. They are even tearing down statues of Lincoln, the emancipator of the slaves, and George Washington, the father of our county. They are defacing monuments to abolitionists, anti-slavery activists, as well as the Massachusetts 54th Regiment dedicated to black soldiers who helped the Union win the Civil War.   Teddy Roosevelt, who is memorialized on Mount Rushmore, was one of our greatest Republican and American presidents. He was the protector of the common person, the working person of any race. His list of accomplishments for the benefit of the people is endless, including busting monopolies, protecting our environment with conservation acts, protecting our food products and health with the FDA, starting college athletic programs with the NCAA, uniting Americans of all races, colors and creeds, and so much more. Here are some of the highlights of the rally in video and photos. 

President of the Whitestone Republican Club, Vickie Paladino speaks out powerfully and even stood up to the BLM protestors later on saying “you got something to say, little boy?”

Dawn Eskew standing here with two great patriots Bevlyn Bevelyn Beatty and Edmee Chavannes protecting Teddy Roosevelt from being torn down.

Christopher Wright, Conservative in NYC, speaks up for what is RIGHT, fighting to save our history, and will never kneel to the mob.

President of the Queens Village Republican Club, Phil Orenstein speaks out loudly to save Teddy Roosevelt’s statue.

Statue of Teddy Roosevlt, leader of the Rough Riders, flanked by Native American and African American soldiers representing fighting groups that helped achieve the U.S. Victory over the Spanish forces in Cuba.

We Must End the Slavery of One-Party Rule

By Phil Orenstein

We need a two-party system in NYC and cities across America, otherwise with one political party controlling black and disadvantaged communities, their lives and destinies, they are left bereft of choices, deprived of freedom. Freedom is choice, and without it, you are living in slavery. The Democrat Party and urban media has kept them beaten down in slavery. They have become slaves to one party. We must end the slavery of one-party rule.

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The latest of the cataclysmic social events of the past few months is the devastating summer crime wave which has started hitting hard in our black communities. NYC has seen dozens of recent shootings, and after pressure to defund the police, the plainclothes anti-crime unit was disbanded in mid-June and we are now witnessing the biggest spike in gun violence and murders in decades.  

In his column “Time for Republicans to Give Black Voters a Real Choice” Robert Hornak says that many center-right folks have missed the point when offering the facts to explain away the “pain that real people peacefully protesting are feeling.” While the roots of the historical problem in black communities is deeper than he suggests, it’s a good thing he’s calling for “the larger conversation we need to have on race relations in America.”

This larger conversation presents us with a positive opportunity to work with the black community and welcome them into the Republican Party, the Party of freedom, opportunity, law and order, prosperity, and choice. However, we don’t want to use the language of the extreme left such as “systemic racism” which invariably points the narrative to Republicans and police which couldn’t be further from the truth. It’s a smoke screen, covering up the real problems. 

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Time For Republicans To Give Black Voters a Real Choice

by Robert Hornak

Editor’s Note: This is Robert Hornak’s column as published in the news and media outlet, The Schpiel, with explicit permission of the author. The Schpiel is a proud partner of the Daily Caller News Foundation, the Jewish News Syndicate, and the Free Speech Alliance.

Disclaimer: Opinions expressed on our website pages are not necessarily the official positions of the Queens Village Republican Club, Inc. Additionally, we understand the author’s intent to use this as a positive opportunity to work with the Black community and welcome them into the Republican Party. However, a rebuttal will be coming soon on the deep-rooted historical problem in Black and minority communities in cities across American, and offer a solution based on Republican principles. 

In recent days many people whose politics lean center-right have been trying to give “the facts” on racism in America. This completely misses the point and is nothing more than a distraction from the need to address a real and very serious problem and from the larger conversation we need to have on race relations in America. 

Republicans should immediately please stop. And listen. Listen to the pain that real people peacefully protesting are experiencing. Do not allow the small group of violent thugs, looters and Marxist agitators hijack this very real crises and change the debate to the one they want to have, with all blame, accusations, and no solutions. Don’t take the bait from those who seek to profit from further dividing America. 

There are many ways to parse the numbers if you want to examine race and inequality. You can also debate whether it is systemic racism or something else. But at least we should all agree, putting politics aside for just a minute, that there are problems unique to Black America and something real and constructive needs to be done to solve this systemic problem.

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Cuomo Searching For Scapegoats To Blame For His Deadly Coronavirus Order As 10,000+ Nursing-Home Patients Have Lost Lives To COVID-19

By Robert Golomb

Editor’s Note: This is syndicated columnist Bob Golomb’s latest column as published in the news and media outlet, The Published Reporter 

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announcing updates on the spread of the coronavirus during a news conference at the state Capitol. Albany, New York, March 15, 2020. Photo credit: Hans Pennink / Shutterstock.com, licensed.

NEW YORK, NY – When this past March 25^th Governor Andrew Cuomo’s New York State Department of Health (NYSDH) issued an official order requiring nursing homes admit patients infected with the coronavirus, many of the 19.4 million citizens of New York State probably understood that the governor was a man unafraid to exercise the power of his high executive office in the name of public health.      

However, as many of these same New Yorkers also soon later learned, that order proved to be a death sentence for the estimated 11,000- 12,000 nursing home patients and approximately 500 nursing home employees who died from the infection. Still, Cuomo blamed others for this tragedy.    

The person Cuomo first blamed was President Trump. Referring to a March 13th guideline issued by Trump Administration’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) which recommended that nursing homes accept patients coming from hospitals treating coronavirus patients, Cuomo at a later press conference stated, “New York followed the president’s agencies’ guidance. What New York did was follow what the Republican Administration said to do.”  

Missing from Cuomo’s blame Trump thesis are four burdensome facts. The first is that Trump’s CDC made it clear that nursing homes were not required (contrary to Cuomo’s bizarre interpretation of their written guidelines) to admit coronavirus patients. Rather, the CDC recommended only that nursing homes not discriminate against those non-coronavirus patients who had been originally sent by hospitals who are caring for patients with that awful disease. It remains unclear why the governor was unable to understand this clear and important distinction.   

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WHY do Police Matter?

Have you forgotten the old T-shirts, caps, and coffee mugs from the aftermath of 9/11 that said, “We Will Never Forget?” This is an open letter to our elected officials, our union leaders, business leaders, and our religious and civic leaders from concerned citizens of New York City. We the people of New York City have not forgotten. Have you?

We have not forgotten…

• The NYPD, for the last 25 years have made New York City the safest big city in America, allowing us to thrive and prosper.
• On the day of the terrorist attacks on 9/11 the officers of the NYPD along with all first responders, were willing to give up their lives to save people they didn’t know, rushing into the burning towers of the World Trade Center.
• On the nights following 9/11 the NYPD protected all neighborhoods and all houses of worship including mosques.
• In the years that followed, they protected us from catastrophic terrorist attacks. Some that we didn’t even hear about, were prevented.
• When we were battered by superstorm Sandy, the NYPD were outside responding to one of the worst natural disasters ever to hit our region, while we were inside worried and frightened.
• We all mourned when two of New York’s Finest, Police Officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos, were shot at point-blank range, while sitting in their patrol car, by an evil assassin.
• Just a month ago we were out every night at 7 pm to salute and praise our heroic first responders including NYPD in the fearless fight against the terrible virus.
• The NYPD is made up of all of US. An attack on them, is an attack on US.

They are our neighbors, our relatives, our friends, parents, sons, and daughters. They shop at the same stores, they frequent the same restaurants, attend the same schools and churches. They run athletic programs and coach sports teams for disadvantaged youth (PAL). They operate playstreets for our children, and after-school programs and summer camps. They visit our High Schools to play basketball and volleyball with our kids.

All too often we have seen our civic, religious, business, and political leaders who have shown weakness, self-interest, or are pandering to the mob. We must all reject the violent mob who loot and destroy, and throw bricks, frozen water bottles, and Molotov cocktails at our police. We must reject the mindless mob who hurl vile and dangerous epithets at our police in their spoken and written words. We must reject the irresponsible mob who ignore the pandemic safeguards and can infect the police with the virus to spread amongst their families, friends and then to all of us.

The police take an oath of office similar to the oath of all of our elected representatives, to uphold the Constitution of the United States, the Constitution of the State of New York, the Charter of the City of New York, and to protect the people from all enemies foreign and domestic. In the hallways of police precincts across NYC, throughout NY State, and in station houses across the United States, the debate over how to protect citizen’s rights and enforce the laws is an ongoing daily struggle. Police officers understand the delicate balance between enforcement of the law and upholding the constitutional rights of every citizen.

We are one city united. The vast majority of New Yorkers respect our police, are grateful for our police and even love our police. They are us.

Where do you stand?

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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. Historian, Jerry Matacotta was the advisor for this letter.