January 2023 – Current Events

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Candidates

Meeting on 2023 City Council and Queens District Attorney candidates – January 19, 2023

SPEAKERS George Grasso, Queens District Attorney Juan Pagan, City Council 2nd District Robert Bobrick, City Council 3rd District Elizabeth Golluscio, City Counil 5th District Scott Harney, City Council 23rd District Daniella May, City Council 31st District Arkadiusz Tomaszewski, City Council 39th District Michael Ragusa, City Council 47th District Eric Berend, City Council 1st District Zhile Cao, City Council 29th District Mitchell Bosch, City Council 37th District Election of the Chairman of the club's board (David Abraham, Martha Rowen, and Vic Starsky)

Election Saga of Tom Sullivan 23AD and Lester Chang 49AD

On November 8, 2022, Republican flipped 4 State Assembly seats in Queens and Brooklyn: Tom Sullivan topped Stacey G. Pfeffer Amato by 246 votes in the 23rd District; Michael Novakhov trounced Steven Cymbrowitz by 4,215 votes in the 45th District; Alec Brook-Krasny bettered Mathylde Frontus by 797 votes in the 46th District; and Lester Chang knocked out Peter Abbate by 668 votes in the 49th District. Queens: 23AD. Assemblywoman Stacey G. Pfeffer Amato sued (Nov 15). After absentee votes were cured and counted, Republican challenger Sullivan won by 3 votes (Nov 23). Recount placed Assemblywoman Pfeffer-Amato up by 1 vote (Dec. 7). Assemblywoman Amato won two court cases. She led by 8 votes when counting 11 "overvotes" (Dec 22). Count of the 74 "cured" ballots, 4 affidavits, and 11 ...

LATEST FALSE FACT-CHECKS ON JOE BIDEN

LATEST FALSE FACT-CHECKS ON JOE BIDEN Source: https://www.politifact.com/ Joe Biden Stated on December 16, 2022 in a town hall for U.S. veterans: After Joe Biden became vice president, at the behest of his father, he gave his uncle, Frank H. Biden, a Purple Heart for serving in the U.S. military during World War II. By Yacob Reyes • December 20, 2022 Joe Biden Stated on December 16, 2022 in a speech: Says he has been to “Afghanistan, Iraq and those areas” twice as president. By Tom Kertscher • December 20, 2022 Joe Biden Stated on October 27, 2022 in a speech in Syracuse, N.Y.: The price of gas is “down from over $5 when I took office.” By Louis Jacobson • October 28, 2022 Joe Biden Stated on October 23, 2022 in a forum with Now This: Student loan forgivenes...