Candidates

Location of the October 16, 2025 meeting is at Grace Lutheran Church, 103-15 Union Turnpike, Forest Hills, Queens from 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm.  Any and all candidates on the November 4, 2025 ballot are welcome to speak!  Preference will be given to those who have not spoken at the club before.   You could watch the meeting live on YouTube from 7:30 to 9:30 pm! AGENDA 1. Pledge of Allegiance 7:30 Moment of Silence for Joseph Maffia, State Assembly 75, died in August 2025 2. Reading of club’s Mission Statement (Jim Strawhorn) 3. Roll call of officers and board members (Jimmy Schwatzman) 4. Reading of club’s 9/18 minutes (Isaiah Vega) 5. Report of the Financial Secretary/Treasurer (Arkadiusz Tomaszewski) 6. Committee Reports 7. Old Business 8. Announcement - Nominating...

Watch the June 19, 2025 meeting on YouTube. Music Performance:  Larry Block and Lydia of American Conservative Artists.  Pledge of Allegiance:  AM Goodridge.  Mission Statement and Roll Call:  Jim Strawhorn.  Minutes: George Stein.  Speakers on the June 24 County Committee Primary:  James Coppola (062/24), Elena Chin (062/24), George Stein, Suzanne Chronowitz,  Karen Carr (011/23), Phil McManus (010/23), and Andrew Okuneff (057/54).  Robert Skaretka summarized Early Voting results and stories at the Helen Marshall Early Voting site. The next meeting is July 17, 2025.

Watch the May 15, 2025 meeting on YouTube. Speakers: John Patrick Healy (Republican/Conservative and Common Good and Fight and Deliver); Jonathan Rinaldi (Republican, NO to City of YES and Asians United); Joseph Foley (NY Families First); Wayne Chang (Freedom and Asians United); and Irene Estrada, Mayor (Conservative and Asians United). The next meeting is July 17, 2025.

Watch the meeting recorded on YouTube! Good news!  Non-Citizen Voting Local Law 11 is killed by New York State Court of Appeals.  Read the 6 to 1 decision.  The March 21 Congestion Pricing deadline has been pushed back 30 days by the Trump administration. Adem Lika talked about social security, and Mario Mastrandrea commented on global warming.     Designating petitioning is to end on April 3!  Independent nominating petitioning starts April 15 until May 27!

Elizabeth Golluscio led the Pledge of Allegiance at 7:29 pm.  Minutes was read by Dominick Maiorano. The presidential Inauguration was four days away.  4 members in the audience planned to attend.  President-Elect Trump is expected to pardon about 1,000 January 6 convicted people.  Two groups of volunteers are planning to welcome those to be released at Fort Dix, New Jersey and Brooklyn MDC.  Donald Onuma, 19-year-old, campaign manager for Bashek Grimes, talked about togetherness.  Ed Lee is planning to protest at Rev. Al Sharpton's National Action Network meeting on January 18. Candidates who spoke before the club were, left to right, John Patrick Healy, City Council District 26; Bashek Grimes, Queens Borough President; Alexander Caruso, City Council District 19; Jeffrey Horowit...

The meeting was called to order at 7:31 pm by Second Vice President, Kathy Lally. Danniel Maio gave the annual President's report.  The club was incorporated in 1930, and revived in 2020.  Active voters in Queens 2020 was 1,297,536, and had a net loss of 55,268 as of November 1, 2024.  Registered Republicans was 126,670 in 2020.  Four years later, there was a net gain of 22,189 to 148,859.  Democrats, on the other hand, had a net loss of 11,373 from 766,213 in 2020 to 754,840 in 2024.  Club membership was 20 in 2020.  As of December 19, it totaled 87 paid members.  Club hosted about 90 speakers including presidential candidates for Haiti, Jude Elie, and for Namibia, Jeremiah Kaambo.  Issues discussed including City of YES, Proposition One, non-citizen voting, state budget, migrant crisi...