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Lincoln Dinner 2019: Celebrating the Greatness of America

“As the oldest Republican Club in America, it is your duty to carry the torch for the Republican Party and its core principles for the entire nation.” These were the encouraging words to our club from Lt. Col. Allen West, former Congressman from South Florida, who was the rousing keynote speaker at a past Lincoln Dinner.

To continue to honor our club’s national legacy, I have an exciting announcement to make.  On Sunday, March 24, 2019 we present our 144th Anniversary Lincoln Dinner in celebration of the greatness of America and our inimitable President Trump with nationally renowned keynote speakers Corey Lewandowski and David Bossie.

Corey Lewandowski served as the chief political advisor and campaign manager to Donald J. Trump for President, and David Bossie, served as the deputy campaign manager and deputy executive director of the Presidential Transition Team. He also has served as president of the eminent conservative advocacy group, Citizens United since 2001.

They are currently on a nation-wide press tour for the launch of their just released blockbuster, “Trump’s Enemies.” On their local media appearances, they have been reminding viewers to come and see them in New York at our club’s annual dinner event. Corey tweeted to his 380,000 followers: “Excited to announce that @David_Bossie and I will join the Queens Village Republican Club at their 144th Lincoln Dinner on 3/24/19. All attendees receive a free copy of our latest book, ‘Trump’s Enemies.’ More to come!”

The book is a true to life account about the Deep State undermining the presidency, which reads like a Nelson DeMille thriller, that will keep you up at night. It is a must-read, whether or not you’ve been following the true story, which you won’t find in the Fake News media, about the vicious assault on our president and his America First agenda which began immediately following President Trump’s victory in the 2016 election. Trump’s Enemies also details the triumphant accomplishments of our President’s first two years in office, the likes of which no president has ever achieved, to the jubilation of America’s voting populace who gave him their faith, trust, and confidence to Make America Great Again. This is the first-hand account of the battle for the very life of our democratic Republic.

A recent poll by the Media Research Center reveals that an astounding 90% of the major network news stories about President Trump are negative. Objectivity has disappeared as the once esteemed Forth Estate has become the public relations arm of the Democrat Party in an all-out assault on our President. Is it any wonder why the majority of Americans don’t realize the remarkable accomplishments the Trump administration makes every day? The greatest of these accomplishments as described in the book in a candid interview with the President, is the booming economy, putting more people to work today than ever before in the history of our country. 

It’s the story of the Deep State’s efforts to destroy President Trump and his presidency, from the day Donald J. Trump won the presidency, as the Clinton campaign created a phony narrative to blame their election loss on Russian collusion, to the members of the President’s own staff, the “resistance” embedded inside the White House trying to bring down the President. It’s also the story of how President Trump survives and continues to fight back against all the forces of power arrayed against him, and in the face of it all has achieved such historic accomplishments.  

We are thrilled to present these two celebrated American patriots to tell this story to an enthusiastic audience of our fellow Republicans and patriots at our gala dinner party at Antun’s of Queens Village, less than three miles from the Jamaica Estates home where our President was born and raised. To pave the way for the long-awaited return visit of President Trump to his hometown, we must fill the ballroom to capacity. Last year the popular Long Island Congressman Lee Zeldin energized over 350 dinner guests with the message about American greatness. Our dinner party has notably earned the reputation as the highlight of New York City’s Republican political calendar, and has enjoyed the presence of Mayors Giuliani, Bloomberg, Congressman Peter King, LTC Allen West, Pamela Geller, Dan Bongino, Frank Gaffney and many other distinguished elected officials, dignitaries, war heroes, and scholars.

The renowned Antun’s Catering, 96-43 Springfield Blvd., Queens Village, is a venue in Eastern Queens, NY, where nearly every New York Governor, New York City Mayor, and President of the United States have been in attendance since the 1950s. To bring our President Trump back home to Queens, show your enormous support and be there on March 24th. Mark your calendars, purchase your tickets, spread the word to colleagues, friends and family, purchase a table, and take out an ad in our beautiful Lincoln Dinner Journal, a keepsake of this memorable event. Let’s carry the torch for the Republican Party and make the 144th Anniversary Lincoln Dinner the grandest of them all, and build up our club and the Party of Lincoln, in order to roll out the RED carpet at JFK Airport for the triumphant return of our President to his hometown, Queens, NY.

On behalf of the Queens Village Republican Club, board members and club officers, we send our best wishes to all for a safe, joyful and Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!


Amazon HQ2: Magnet for Corruption, Creative Destruction

Amazon HQ2: Magnet for Corruption, Creative Destruction

By Micah Morrison
Chief Investigative Reporter, Judicial Watch, Inc.

The Amazon HQ2 sweepstakes is over and the winner is Queens, New York. And some place in Virginia called National Landing. And Nashville, Tennessee.

New York and Virginia will split Amazon’s second headquarters, while Nashville gets a consolation prize operations center. The Amazon move cements Queens’ status as an icon of the new New York — dynamic, diverse, economically upward, technologically savvy, and largely low-crime. Forget about Brooklyn. The future is Queens.

But that future is about to get a massive stress test.


President’s Message: America is Worth Fighting For

President’s Message – December 2018

America is Worth Fighting For

By Phil Orenstein

Earlier this year we hosted our glorious 143rd Anniversary Lincoln Dinner where Dr. Kim Holmes, Executive Vice President of the Heritage Foundation eloquently praised the accomplishments of the Queens Village Republican Club as “a red dot in a sea of blue.” Now that red dot is poised to grow bigger and brighter as we continue the righteous mission of America’s oldest Republican Club and proclaim the boundless accomplishments of our President Donald Trump and celebrate the revival of American greatness.

We will continue hosting vibrant and inspiring meetings and events, registering and recruiting loyal Republicans and spreading the word of freedom and the importance of community, here in this sea of blue.  We are the freedom fighters for a great cause against the radical leftist bastion in NYC, battling in the spirit of our founding fathers and George Washington who invoked God’s almighty care and protection. The cause we are fighting for is America, and America is worth fighting for.


Giving Thanks to the Heroes and Heroines Surrounding Us

Giving Thanks to the Heroes and Heroines Surrounding Us

By Joseph Concannon

Thank you to the members of the Queens Village Republican Club and Happy Thanksgiving.  We live in the most generous, caring and forgiving nation on earth and there is no end to the examples of this.  Today, President Trump issued seven prestigious American Freedom Medals.  It is a ceremony repeated annually to acknowledge outstanding civilians in our American society. You too would have been very proud of your fellow citizens and nation.  We can share this moment with each other via computer.  Please see: https://tinyurl.com/y8hr8ry3 for all the details.  We are an exceptional people and have much to be proud of and thankful for and it is only fitting that we pause to examine these things. In thinking about what to write for this month’s December newsletter, I thought I might make up the Concannon American Freedom Awards.   If you are proud of someone share it with me on my Facebook page.  So here we go:


Steve Hilton:  England’s Horatio Alger Comes To America    

Steve Hilton:  England’s Horatio Alger Comes To America    

By Robert Golomb

Steve Hilton, the host of the weekly political Fox News Show, “The Next Revolution with Steve Hilton” (which first aired on June 4, 2017), would seem to be anything but an outsider. However, that is exactly how he described himself to me in a recent thirty -minute telephone interview.  “I have felt like an outsider since I was a young child and continue to feel that way today,” he told me.

That, I thought, was a disarmingly humble self -description from a man who has achieved as much in his forty-nine years on earth as had the English born and raised Hilton, whose life   reads like the British version of the American Horatio Alger classic rags to riches stories.  

Born in 1969 to parents who had immigrated to England after fleeing the Hungarian Revolution in 1956, the “rags” part of Hilton’s story, as I discussed with him and as he describes in his recently published best-selling auto- biographical, economics and political centered book,  “Positive Populism”, began in 1974, shortly after his mother (who later remarried) and father divorced. “I was only five, and the divorce resulted in great financial hardship for my mother and me”, he stated.  “We lived in a cold, damp basement apartment. My mom worked in a shoe store to earn the little money we had. It was a struggle. I think my feelings of being an outsider began then. And quite honestly despite some success that I enjoyed in my life that feeling of being something of an interloper has never left me.” 


Real Representation for our Community

REAL REPRESENTATION FOR OUR COMMUNITY

By Vickie Paladino, Republican candidate for State Senate in the 11th District

Our district faces an existential threat in John Liu, and our community must come together on election day to demand better.

There is much talk in politics about a ‘blue wave’ set to crash down on the country this November. Democrats are angry and motivated, fired up with rage at President Trump, and still in shock from Hillary’s surprise defeat almost two years ago. And this, according to the conventional wisdom, will result in a midterm wave of Democrats taking office across the country. Maybe.

But regardless of how much stock you put into this popular narrative, there is no denying that radical left-wing anger has certainly manifested itself in this year’s Democrat primaries here in New York. Names like Zephyr Teachout and Cynthia Nixon are now considered the political mainstream. Socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the new darling of the party, swept into a surprise primary victory by the young and enraged against stalwart Democrat Congressman Joe Crowley.


A Possible Game Changing Debate: Republican Candidate Chele Farley Vs. Senator Gillibrand      

 A Possible Game Changing Debate: Republican Candidate Chele Farley Vs. Senator Gillibrand        

By Robert Golomb     

“ I am looking forward to my debate with Senator Gillibrand”,  Chele Farley, the Republican, Conservative, and Reform Party candidate running to unseat New York State U.S. Senate incumbent Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand (2009 – present) in this November’s election, told me last week in an interview conducted in Manhattan.  Farley was referring to the recent announcement that Senator Gillibrand has accepted her request to hold a debate. The debate, which will be aired live on Spectrum stations including NY1, will take place at Skidmore College in upstate New York on Sunday evening, October 21st.    


The Doomsday Clock

The Doomsday Clock

By Phil Orenstein

The political landscape has drastically changed in this election. We need to unify behind our Republican candidates and the Republican Party and win on November 6th, in order to save New York. We must get our Republican candidates elected. We are the Republican Party carrying the torch against the radical progressive left that has taken over the Democrat Party and destroyed it. It’s not the old battle between Democrats and Republicans. This is no longer the robust debate by the two sides of the political aisle. This is about all good Americans, whether Republican, Independent, unaffiliated voters or moderate Democrats, in the fight against the hard-left aiming for the destruction of America and everything we believe in.


Frank Padavan: 1934-2018 – Husband, Father, Statesman

Frank Padavan: 1934-2018 – Husband, Father, Statesman

By James A. Trent

Former New York State Senator Frank Padavan has left us at age 83. For 38 years, he represented eastern Queens (and for 10 years northwest Nassau) as State Senator. Even his political opponents recognize that Frank’s legacy in the Senate is one of the most exemplary in the State’s long history.

This photo was once displayed in Frank’s office. It’s undated but probably from around 1982. Frank is in center. To the right is Republican Assemblyman Doug Prescott (26th A.D.), and far right, James Trent. Picture was taken at the Farm Museum’s Agricultural Fair. (Author’s collection)


Judicial Watch & the Fight Against Corruption in New York

Judicial Watch & the Fight Against Corruption in New York

Micah Morrison, Featured Speaker at QVGOP
Columbus Day Dinner Meeting

On October 4, I had the pleasure of speaking to the Queens Village Republican Club about Judicial Watch’s fight against corruption in New York. We’ve been fielding requests for copies of the speech ever since, so we’re reprinting an edited version here:


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