The April 3rd meeting of the Queens Village Republican Club at Marbella Restaurant in Bayside, featured special guest speakers, Bobbie Anne Cox and Michael Kane, plus a lively Q & A session. They are both independent Freedom Fighters, unsung heroes in the battle for Liberty, Justice, Medical Freedom, and MAHA in New York! Here are the videos of their inspiring speeches, thanks to videographer, Michael Ferrara.
Editor’s Note: Arlene Schlesinger, a dedicated community advocate and Republican County Committee member, has authored the following letter to President Trump. Written on behalf of the Queens Village Republican Club, this letter highlights the critical issues and challenges facing Eastern Queens, NY. It will be sent to the White House to bring these concerns to the President’s attention.
Honorable President Trump,
We write to you on behalf of the Queens Village Republican Club, the oldest Republican club in America, proudly serving our community for 150 years. We stood by you, prayed for you, fought for your victory, and continue to support your triumphant return to the White House to Make America Great Again.
Today, we reach out in desperation. Eastern Queens—your hometown—is under siege. Radical leftist policies are destroying our communities, and we have been abandoned by those in power. We have rallied, protested, and pleaded with our local, city and state elected officials, yet they refuse to listen. Now, we turn to you.
Since August 2023, we have been fighting against the migrant tent encampment at the Creedmoor Psychiatric Center, just off Hillside Avenue in Bellerose, NYC. With the stroke of a pen, Governor Hochul forced 1,300 single adult migrant men into our small, suburban residential neighborhood of Bellerose. Crime has skyrocketed, and yet the NYPD is under orders to take a hands-off approach—because we are told these individuals are our “guests.” The consequences of this reckless policy stretch far beyond Bellerose, affecting Jamaica Estates, and all the communities along Union Turnpike, and the surrounding areas. Migrants are even living in tents in our precious parks, such as Alley Pond Park and Cunningham Park, to avoid detection.
Rarely in life are things so clear cut that you can call them black or white. In reality, most issues fall in the “gray” zone, meaning the parameters aren’t clear and so there is a blur between black and white. However, voter ID is one topic that is definitively black or white. You either require voter ID, or you don’t. There’s no middle ground. Similarly, you’re either for it, or against it. I haven’t yet met anyone who is “in the middle” on this topic.
From a legal viewpoint, our US Constitution says that individual states get to decide how to run their elections. So each state has its own election law(s), and since there is no federal law requiring voter ID, we therefore end up with states having the option of whether or not they want to require voters to show identification in order to vote. As of today, there are 14 states plus Washington DC that do not require a voter prove they are who they say they are. All the others require some form of ID (most require photo ID, and some require non-photo ID). If you want to see which states require/don’t require voter ID, you can take a look at this website by BallotPedia, or peruse their voter ID map below.
I noticed something rather interesting in this past election… Of the states that do not require voter ID, almost every single one of them voted for Kamala Harris over Trump. It’s astonishing. Take a look at this map of the presidential election results from last month, and then compare it to the above map of the states that do/do not require voter ID:
Another thing I noticed is that almost every single state that doesn’t require voter ID is run by Democrats. To qualify this statement, when I say a state is “run by” Democrats, I mean the state’s legislature is majority (or supermajority) Democrat. Why is that important? Remember above when I pointed out that our Constitution empowers states to make their own election laws? Well, the legislatures make those laws.
Peeling back another layer, if you look at this map below, it shows you which states Kamala won and whether or not that state has any voter ID laws. According to this map, the vast majority of states that Kamala won do not require voter ID. She only won a handful of states that require some sort of ID. Coincidence?
In my opinion, the only reason a state would not require voter ID is to make it easier for people to cheat. Seeing as that I live in New York (one of the 15 states that do not require voter ID of any sort), I’ve heard rather absurd arguments against requiring ID. Not surprisingly, these arguments are coming from the politicians who run the State – the Democrats. Are you ready to hear their most prevalent argument they pose against voter ID? Just make sure you’re sitting down first. Okay, so the New York politicians say we can’t have voter ID because it is “racist”! Mind you, this is the same argument these inept lawmakers used to get rid of cash bail a few years ago (which has caused a significant spike in crime here in NYS). In case you’re scratching your head wondering how voter ID could possibly be racist, their “logic” goes like this… it’s racist because it is more difficult for minorities to obtain government ID than non-minorities. My reaction every time I hear one of them say this is… seriously guys? I mean, your argument doesn’t even pass the sniff test, not to mention the fact that your reasoning is in and of itself racist! They are (unbelievably) saying minorities are, generally speaking, too ignorant to obtain photo ID. It’s just so insulting!
Now, if we’re talking about minorities who are illegal aliens, then maybe I can see an argument for it being more difficult for them to obtain government issued photo ID particularly if they do not speak English. However, illegal aliens are not supposed to be voting in our elections, so does that argument even hold water? No, it doesn’t. This is all just smoke and mirrors topped with a scoop of immense hypocrisy.
To prove the point further, let’s take a look at just a few things you cannot do in our society unless you have a government issued photo ID:
Do I think requiring voter ID nationwide is a good idea? Yes, I do. Do I think requiring voter ID will solve all of our election integrity problems? No, I do not. However, I do think requiring voter ID will go a long way in restoring the public’s trust in our election system. A significant part of my work is public speaking, and I have criss crossed New York State countless times over these past few years for speaking engagements. What I’ve learned is that, no matter what part of the State I’m in, there is a real degradation of voter confidence in our system. Without confidence that their vote “counts”, most voters will simply elect not to vote at all. We cannot win elections if people aren’t voting! By the way, by “we” I mean patriots who value freedom and the rule of law, and think America-first is the way to go. Please don’t think by “we” I mean Republicans, because I am not Republican.
For those who are still of the mindset that their vote doesn’t count, and that the system is “rigged” (as I hear so often in my travels), I share these statistics with you… Just looking at the microcosm of New York State as an example (arguably the most dystopian state in our nation), we have 19 million people in New York. Approximately 12 million are registered to vote. In our last gubernatorial election in 2022, only 5.6 million people voted. Our radical governor (Kathy Hochul) won by only 300,000 votes! Compounding those statistics is the fact that between 2020 and the 2022 election, approximately 600,000 New Yorkers fled the State. I’m sure you realize that most of those that fled likely did so because they were sick of the oppressive rules and laws in New York and were seeking more “freedom” in a less blue (or a flat out red) state. So had just half of them stayed and voted against Hochul and her radicalism, we wouldn’t be having this discussion with New York as a dystopian haven. I can say this with certainty, as the Republican who ran against Hochul (Lee Zeldin) is a colleague and a friend, so I know he is a fellow defender of the Constitution and is America-first.
Come January 20th, we will have a changing of the guards, so to speak. One of the first things I’d like to see the new Congress and Trump administration do is nationwide voter ID requirements. Restore people’s faith in the system, and then you can go forward from there.
This article is printed with permission of Bobbie Anne Cox, the NYS Attorney who independently sued and initially defeated Gov. Hochul’s unconstitutional DOH regulation to place people in quarantine camps. Follow her at AttorneyCox.Substack.com or on X…. @Attorney_Cox
We live in a digital age where information about everything is at our fingertips anytime, anywhere. Unfortunately, much of the information we receive can be fraudulent or misleading. Deceptive practices aren’t unique to corporate America; they are rampant in the political realm as well. Case in point, the marketing of Proposition One, also known as the “Equal Rights” amendment, which will be on ballot in the general election. Voters take heed; it may not be evident, but a lot is at stake if this amendment passes by popular vote on November 5th.
Duplicity and deception appear to be at the heart of Proposition One; passed by both Democrat controlled houses in 2022 during a special legislative session, in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. Democrats failed to follow proper procedure to amend the constitution by taking the first vote before Attorney General Letitia James gave her decision. Republicans filed suit in October 2023, NYS Supreme Court Justice Doyle ruled in their favor in May 2024, and the ERA was removed from the ballot. Undeterred, AG James appealed the Supreme Court’s decision and got the ruling overturned on a procedural error claiming the suit was filed past the deadline to file. Prop One will be on the ballot in November.
Voters should not be misled by the duplicitous marketing of Prop One, also known as the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). Lawmakers could have put it on the ballot during the 2023 local election, yet they chose to wait until the general election this November. So how urgent was it? The answer is there was no reason for urgency. New York has been at the forefront of abortion rights since 1970, three years prior to the first Roe v. Wade Decision. In 2019, New York also passed the Reproductive Health Act to make the right to abortion part of state law, and in June of 2023 Governor Hochul passed legislation ensuring equal access to reproductive health care and abortion. Hochul herself touted, “I want everyone to know that abortion remains safe, accessible, and legal in New York.” Learn more about reproductive rights in NYC by visiting Attorney General James’ website: ag.ny.gov
Urging New Yorkers to vote yes for Prop One as a measure to prevent “anti-trans” legislation from being passed in New York is equally misleading. The legislation fallaciously referred to as “anti-trans” includes legislation that bans or limits minors from socially or medically transitioning without parental knowledge or consent, and legislation that prohibits biological males from competing in girls’ sports and sharing female only spaces. Be reminded there is a glaring lack of research regarding “gender affirming care” and any debate over it is either censored or discredited by proponents of Prop One. Concealment is a form of deception, and voters are being deceived.
NY State Constitution Article 1, Section 11, currently bans “laws and entities” from discriminating based on “race, color, creed or religion.” The proposed amendment would add protections based on “ethnicity, national origin, age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, pregnancy outcomes and reproductive health care and autonomy.” This vague and broadly written ballot proposal may seem unobjectionable but has the potential to strip away parental rights and remove guardrails already in place to protect children. Consider the possible ramifications of altering the state constitution without further deliberation:
A yes vote on Prop One will NOT promote equality, it will not protect human rights, it will legitimize and mandate discrimination against anyone who doesn’t fall in line with far-left agenda. Protect your children. Protect your freedom. Vote NO on Prop One.
Elena Chin is Mom’s for Liberty Queens County Chapter Chair. Email Elena at moms4libertyqueensny@gmail.com
