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Meeting on Bail Reform and Migrant Crisis – September 21, 2023

Bail Reform and Migrant Crisis

George Grasso, Public Safety Queens DA candidate
Michael Mossa, Republican and Conservative Queens DA Candidate

Other Speakers:
Diane Sare, US Senate 2024 candidate
– Ilan Riss, Israel’s handling of illegal migrants
– Dr. Jeff Weil, help offer for candidates
Kelly Klingman, Republican candidate against Tiffany Caban, 22nd District
– Eric Vineski, ready for Eagle Scout
– Rick Horan on QueensLink
– Steve Speer, rats
– Laura Schmitt, Queens County Beacon
– Queens County GOP October 23 Gala
– Elena Chin, president of Moms for Liberty, Queens Chapter
– Stephen Morena, Dutch Kills Civic Association

Lessons Learned on the Campaign Trail
– Jonathan Rinaldi, City Council 24th District
– Bernard Chow, City Council 23rd District
– Ruben Diario Cruz, past City Council, 32nd District

Help Republican, Conservative and/or Medical Freedom candidates to qualify for Campaign Finance Board’s matching fund

The following participating candidates have not met the second threshold of $5,000 as of October 6th.  Any person having an address in the City of New York will count.  Their status will be updated after October 27 (Statement #9), the next deadline.

Contribute to Jonathan Rinaldi (Queens 24th) $582* reported
Contribute to Marilyn Miller (Queens 27th) $0* reported
Contribute to Danniel Maio (Queens 29th) $3,405 reported
Contribute to Martha Rowen (Brooklyn 33rd) $3,029 reported
Contribute to Arkadiusz Tomaszewski (Brooklyn 39th) $1,231 reported

Congratulations to Bob, Elizabeth, Zhile, Isaiah and Paul!
Contribute to Robert Bobrick (Manhattan 3rd) $6,690 reported
Contribute to Elizabeth Golluscio (Manhattan 5th) $5,962 reported
Contribute to Zhile Cao (Queens 25th) $5,598 reported
Contribute to Isaiah Vega (Brooklyn 37th) $6,832 reported
Contribute to Paul Rodriguez (Brooklyn 38th) $10,983 reported

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June 27, 2023 Primary Spending by Candidates

The Campaign Finance Board was established by Ballot Question Six: Voter Assistance and Campaign Finance in the November 1988 election to fight declining number of voter registration and to de-escalate costs of running for office.  How is it doing 35 years later?

Cost of USPS First Class stamp as of July 9, 2023 is 66¢.

Race Candidate Spending Certified $/Vote
Queens DA Melinda Katz $558,008 44,601 $12.51
George Grasso $557,990 5,969 $93.48
Devian S. Daniels $16,155 8,799 $1.84
Write-ins 449
Bronx DA Darcel Clark $483,682 21,601 $22.39
Tess Cohen $183,972 8,009 $22.97
Write-ins 138
District 1 Pooi Stewart $21,135 97 $217.89
Christopher Marte $238,794 5,485 $43.54
Susan Lee $206,913 2,707 $76.44
Ursila Jung $206,922 441 $469.21
Write-ins 31
District 2 Carlina Rivera $151,294 4,688 $32.27
Allie Ryan $75,005 2,980 $25.17
Write-ins 76
District 9 Kristin R. Jordan $29,618 1,098 $26.97
Al Taylor $125,016 1,664 $75.13
Inez E. Dickens $246,884 2,898 $85.19
Yusef Salaam $237,392 5,761 $41.21
Write-ins 123
District 10 Guillermo A. Perez $164,442 5,143 $31.97
Carmen N. De La Rosa $134,013 781 $171.59
Write-ins 162
District 12 Kevin C. Riley $192,924 5,882 $32.80
Pamela A. Hamilton-Johnson $1,269 902 $1.41
Aisha Hernandez Ahmed $60,385 396 $152.49
Write-ins 20
District 13 Marjorie Velazquez $169,270 2,795 $60.56
Irene Estrada $6 343 $0.02
Bernadette Ferrara $95,767 822 $116.50
John Perez $0 238 $0.00
Kristy Marmorato $162,857 909 $179.16
George Havranek $226,697 836 $271.17
Hasime Samantha Zherka $74,557 160 $465.98
Write-ins 112
District 14 Rachel T. Miller-Bradshaw $74,927 748 $100.17
Pierina A. Sanchez $211,166 2,452 $86.12
Write-ins 17
District 19 Paul D. Graziano $169,054 1,436 $117.73
Christopher S. Bae $206,855 2,186 $94.63
Tony Avella $214,316 2,363 $90.70
Write-ins 34
District 20 Yu-Ching James Pai $4,177 819 $5.10
Dany Chen $193,514 638 $303.31
Write-ins 6
District 22 Tiffany L. Caban $92,891 5,303 $17.52
Charles A. Castro $98,115 869 $112.91
Write-ins 83
District 23 Steve Behar $206,482 1,917 $107.71
Rubaiya Rahman $212,767 490 $434.22
Linda Lee $264,232 4,113 $64.24
Write-ins 47
District 25 Ricardo Pacheco $101,103 1,321 $76.54
Fatima Baryab $200,219 755 $265.19
Shekar Krishnan $233,796 3,409 $68.58
Write-ins 31
District 26 Hallie Kim $184,943 2,298 $80.48
Julie Won $233,934 3,701 $63.21
Write-ins 76
District 29 Sukhi Singh $206,016 683 $301.63
Ethan Felder $200,607 2,204 $91.02
Lynn C. Shulman $226,421 6,480 $34.94
Write-ins 50
District 34 Jennifer Gutierrez $112,627 3,002 $37.52
Paperboy Love Prince $6,848 677 $10.12
Write-ins 19
District 41 Darlene Mealy $76,374 2,806 $27.22
Joyce D. Shearin $0 162 $0.00
Isis McIntosh Green $121,300 1,346 $90.12
Reginald Bowman $17,611 234 $75.26
Write-ins 22
District 42 Charles Barron $116,540 2,633 $44.26
Jamilah Rose $11,623 356 $32.65
Chris Banks $188,970 3,134 $60.30
Write-ins 54
District 43 Stanley Ng $108,921 347 $313.89
Wai-Yee Chan $207,576 1,127 $184.18
Susan Zhuang $214,524 2,126 $100.90
Yin Tang $218,478 425 $514.07
Vito LaBella $13,703 394 $34.78
Write-ins 51
District 44 Kalman Yeger $65,035 395 $164.65
Heshy Tischler $282,658 365 $774.41
Write-ins 12
District 47 Anna Belfiore-Delfaus $3,213 271 $11.86
Ari Kagan $217,407 1,634 $133.05
Avery N. Pereira $54,333 255 $213.07
Write-ins 10
District 48 Inna Vernikov $174,249 1,730 $100.72
Igor Kazatsker $125,818 707 $177.96
Write-ins 15

Sources:  Campaign Finance Board Campaign Finance Summary and NYC Board of Elections Certified Results

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Meeting on the Special Election for the 27 Assembly District – August 17, 2023

Republican and Conservative candidates:
David Hirsch (State Assembly, 27th District), September 12, 2023 Special Election.  Presentation.
William Shanahan (Civil Court Judge, 6th Municipal District), Michael Mossa (Queens District Attorney), Gary Muraca (Supreme Court Judge).
William Shanahan, Michael Mossa, Gary Muraca and David Hirsch.

Other speakers:
– Stephen Weiner on Missouri v. Biden  DOJ FBI subpoenaed (Epoch Times 8/17/23)
– Taisha Parrott and Laura Schmitt on Moms for Liberty
– Bill Schacht on Resiliency
– Edward Manfredonia

Lessons Learned on the Campaign Trail (Jim Strawhorn)
– Robert Bobrick (3rd City Council district) on fundraising
– Martha Rowen (33rd City Council district) on fundraising
– Danniel Maio (29th City Council district) on absentee ballot law

Help Republican, Conservative and/or Medical Freedom candidates to qualify for Campaign Finance Board’s matching fund

The following participating candidates have not met the second threshold of $5,000 as of August 25th.  Any person having an address in the City of New York will count.  Their status will be updated after October 8 (Statement #8), the next deadline.

Contribute to Robert Bobrick (Manhattan 3rd) $6,267 reported
Contribute to Elizabeth Golluscio (Manhattan 5th) $2,824 reported
Contribute to Jonathan Rinaldi (Queens 24th) $582* reported
Contribute to Zhile Cao (Queens 25th) $5,423 reported
Contribute to Marilyn Miller (Queens 27th) $0* reported
Contribute to Danniel Maio (Queens 29th) $3,142 reported
Contribute to Martha Rowen (Brooklyn 33rd) $2,324 reported
Contribute to Isaiah Vega (Brooklyn 37th) $2,006 reported
Contribute to Paul Rodriguez (Brooklyn 38th) $4,299 reported
Contribute to Arkadiusz Tomaszewski (Brooklyn 39th) $556 reported

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Is the U.S. and China Engaging in Chemical Warfare On American Citizens?

110,000 young Americans, Americas’ future are dying each and every year from Fentanyl crossing the southern border coming from China manufactured and distributed by Mexican cartels sanctioned unofficially by our government because of President Biden’s’ open borders.

President Biden’s’ administration has unofficially and inadvertently licensed these cartels allowing them to make billions of dollars while inflation is driving purchasing power for Americans down about 30-40 percent leaving Americans with a disastrous quality of life and economic problems.

Chinese spy balloons are allowed to fly to Hawaii across the Pacific Ocean to the west coast of America and allowed to continue across the mainland over key military and other critical facilities to the east coast with impunity. Once the Chinese spy balloon clears the east coast line of our sovereign land and has taken all the photos it needs our President decides now is the time to shoot it down. Whose team is he on?

Our government allows China to buy up large parcels of land near our strategic military bases and facilities; Allows thousands of Chinese to enter our country for a college education and many never show up for class and disappear into the population; allows hundreds if not more young Chinese men to sneak into the United States of America primarily through the southern border and Mayorkas, Harris and Biden say are borders are closed and secure.

The media many that are complicit with this message along with our homeland security department run by Mayorkas, and the President of the United States of America do not talk about it seriously and do or say anything at all.

If Black lives matter and all the lives of Americas’ youth matter, then why are we allowing fentanyl to enter our country through open borders along with millions of illegals, coming unvetted some with illnesses, criminal and mental histories, some with evil intentions and some with wanting everything for free. Is President Biden trying to find new Democrats to vote in future elections or is he a benevolent humanitarian at the tax payers’ expense. We are talking about 6 million counted and estimates of another 2 million getaways or runaways since President Biden has taken over our country in the last 2 1/2 years.

Think about the runaways. Some are up to no good. Could another 9/11 be in the cards? The deck is stacked against good, honest, hard working taxpaying Americans. America last!

President Biden sends Billions to the Ukraine, but sends $700 per household to Hawaiians whose homes and belongings were lost and ravaged by runaway fires. 114 have already been confirmed dead and up to 1,000 unaccounted for of which many are children.

It is reported that President Biden works from 10 Am – 3 pm and has spent approximately 40 % of his time in office on vacation.

Border security czar Vice President Kamala Harris appointed by President Biden as the border czar to secure the border has never been to the border and is part of this whole alleged co-conspiracy with China against our citizens, along with the cooperation of our Executive branch, the Democrat party, some Republicans especially the Rhinos (i.e. Mitch McConnell, Mitt Romney and others) are allegedly acting in concert with our enemies to inadvertently commit chemical warfare and other crimes on our citizens bringing Americas cities and neighborhoods to its’ knees with these opiods making China and the cartels rich. What do Americans get? Death and destruction of our cities and the families that live there inflicting physical, mental, emotional and moral decay of our country.

There is a racial aspect to the deaths of Americas’ citizens with fentanyl in that percentage wise, deaths from fentanyl and other opiods along with the crimes that go hand in hand with drugs affect proportionally primarily the minority residents of the inner cities and ghettos of America. Some might say this is a form of genocide by our leaders and the media fails to criticize our President and his cabinet for allowing open borders that allows the deadly chemical fentanyl to slaughter our youth. What happened to the free press, the 4th estate that is supposed to expose evil and not minimize its effects on our culture? They are practically silent.

China supplies 90 % of the drug, the cartels manufacturer it, bring it across the border and distribute it and the President allows this by having porous borders. Can we legally say that the United States government is acting in concert with China and the cartels in the deaths of 110,000 +/- young Americans with such gross malfeasance and negligence? Does this fall under the RICO crime law called the Racketeering Influenced, Corrupt Organizations Act? The liberal press, TV, radio and social media give little exposure to what is the destruction of America from within and not getting the message to the American people effectively.

 

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Meeting on Understanding NYC’s $107 Billion Budget – July 20, 2023

$107 Billion was the budget reported June 29, but the truth is $112.6 Billion!

Ana Champeny VP for Research at Citizens Budget Commission  Presentation Slides in PDF
Lisa Neary, First Deputy of NYC IBO
Logan Clark, Assistant Director of NYC IBO  Presentation Slides in PowerPoint

Other Speakers
– Jonathan Dyckman, election integrity
– Camille Ladson, July 30 Conservative Rep Alliance
– Jimmy Schwatzman, on Mike Lindell
– Mark Chronowitz, Queens Village July 23 BBQ
– Joel Anabilah-Azumah, 9th Congressional District
Turbo Huang, Alexis de Tocqueville from China
– Josephine Aronson, New York Citizens Audit
– Ricardo Pacheco, City Council 25 District
– Mekita Jacqueline Coe, 3rd Congressional District
– Bill Schacht, resiliency in CCB6

Help our candidates to qualify for Campaign Finance matching fund!

Contribute to Robert Bobrick (Manhattan 3rd) $883 reported
Contribute to Elizabeth Golluscio (Manhattan 5th) $1,200 reported
Contribute to Jonathan Rinaldi (Queens 24th) $582 reported
Contribute to Zhile Cao (Queens 25th) $4,135 reported
Contribute to Marilyn Miller (Queens 27th) $0 reported
Contribute to Danniel Maio (Queens 29th) $1,626 reported
Contribute to Martha Rowen (Brooklyn 33rd) $243 reported
Contribute to Isaiah Vega (Brooklyn 37th) $1,180 reported
Contribute to Paul Rodriguez (Brooklyn 38th) $2,235 reported
Contribute to Arkadiusz Tomaszewski (Brooklyn 39th) $246 reported

$10 minimum contribution qualifies for matching fund.

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Redistricted Maps & History

2022 redistricting is not over!  Attorney General James and Governor Hochul Urged Court to Order Independent Redistricting Commission to Redraw Congressional District LinesAppellate Court, 3rd Department voted 3-1 to  agree.  Final stop, Court of Appeals

New York State Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Third Judicial Department voted in favor on July 13, 2023.  It will be appealed to the highest Court of Appeals before the newly appoint Chief Justice Rowan Wilson.  Not good.

State Assembly maps by the Independent Redistricting Commission adopted on April 24, 2023.  Nearly identical to the “unconstitutional” version signed into law on February 3, 2022.

Certified NYS Congressional and State Senate maps by the Special Master

The certified and approved Congressional and State Senate maps.

Certified Congressional Map for New York City

Redistricted maps on the New York City Board of Elections website first published on February 25, 2022.

Resources:  Have I been redistricted? by theCity.nyc.   Redistricting & You, the Twitter account of Michael Li NYU Law Brennan Center, and FiveThirtyEight.

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Supreme Court Term 2022: 58 Decisions

R- Date Docket Name J. Citation
58 6/30/23 21-476 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis NG 600/1
57 6/30/23 22-535 Department of Education v. Brown A 600/1
56 6/30/23 22-506 Biden v. Nebraska R 600/1
55 6/29/23 22-174 Groff v. DeJoy A 600/1
54 6/29/23 21-1043 Abitron Austria GmbH v. Hetronic Int’l, Inc. A 600/1
53 6/29/23 20-1199 Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College R 600/1
52 6/27/23 21-1168 Mallory v. Norfolk Southern R. Co NG 600/1
51 6/27/23 22-138 Counterman v. Colorado EK 600/1
50 6/27/23 21-1271 Moore v. Harper R 600/1
49 6/23/23 22-179 United States v. Hansen AB 599/1
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Meeting of June 27 Primary Candidates and Leaders – June 29, 2023

Joe Pinion headlined the evening on behalf of State GOP Chairman Ed Cox.

Speakers
– Ziaul Chowdhury (values at US Army)
– Phil Grillo (candidate against George Santos)
– Robert Skaretka (report on early voting and election day)
– Jonathan Rinaldi (R,C,MF,Parent,Mad as Hell) 25th District

Hasime Samantha Zherka on the nepotism of Bronx County GOP

Ying Tan on hard work and winning in Brooklyn

 

Queens Candidates
– Marilyn Miller (R,MF) v. Nantasha M. Williams (D) 27th
– Daniella May (R,Parent,Mad as Hell) v. Selvena Brooks-Powers (D) 31st
– Rusat Ramgopal (R,Common Sense) v. Adrienne Adams (D) 28th
– Zhile Cao (R,MF) v. Shekar Krishnan (D,WF) 25th
– Bernard Chow (R,C,MF,Common Sense) v. Linda Lee (D) 23rd
Brooklyn candidates
– Marguerite Chandler (MF) v. Jennifer Gutierrez (D,WF) 34th
– Martha Rowen (R,C,MF) v. Lincoln Restler (D,WF) 33rd
– Arkadiusz Tomaszewski (R,MF) v. Shanana Hanif (D,WF) 39th
– Daniel Lally (MF) v. Rita Joseph (D,WF) 40th
Bronx candidate
– Robert Caemmerer (R,C,MF) v. Eric Dinowitz (D) 11th
Manhattan candidates
– Elizabeth Golluscio (R) v. Julie Menin (D) 5th
– Robert Bobrick (R,MF) v. Erik Bottcher (D) 3rd

Help Republican, Conservative and/or Medical Freedom candidates to qualify for Campaign Finance Board’s matching fund

The following participating candidates have not met the second threshold of $5,000 as of June 12th.  Any person having an address in the City of New York will count.  Their status will be updated after  July 13 (Statement #6), the next deadline.

Contribute to Robert Bobrick (Manhattan 3rd) $310 reported
Contribute to Elizabeth Golluscio (Manhattan 5th) $1,050 reported
Contribute to Jonathan Rinaldi (Queens 24th) $582 reported
Contribute to Zhile Cao (Queens 25th) $2,288 reported
Contribute to Marilyn Miller (Queens 27th) $0 reported
Contribute to Danniel Maio (Queens 29th) $790 reported
Contribute to Martha Rowen (Brooklyn 33rd) $233 reported
Contribute to Isaiah Vega (Brooklyn 37th) $255 reported
Contribute to Paul Rodriguez (Brooklyn 38th) $640 reported
Contribute to Arkadiusz Tomaszewski (Brooklyn 39th) $121 reported

Our next meeting will be held on July 20th (Thursday) at Grace Lutheran Church, 103-15 Union Turnpike in Forest Hills, 7:30 pm.

Meeting was recorded by NYC for Yourself

Video of meeting

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Mr. President You Do Not Speak for US!

Mr. President, you do not speak for us! Your values are not our values. Your no is not our no. Your yes is not our yes. You do not represent us to the world. You represent an extreme ideology that is not what America is about. You promised you would bring us together, for that many voted for you but your words and actions tell us otherwise. You have betrayed the trust of the American people. You have weaponized the DOJ and the FBI against your political enemies.  That is an assault on Republican voting Americans and 70% of Democrat voting Americans who don’t want you to run for office again. That is not what our founding fathers intended when they wrote the Bill of Rights and the Constitution.  It was written with equal justice for all and not for thee. God did not shed his grace on thee only.

You hold the most awesome, most powerful and most influential position in the world, more than any single individual. You were supposed to be the leader of the free world. You are not an honest, transparent and competent leader. You do not walk the road for us. You walk the road for yourself and the Biden family. You have betrayed our trust. You are supposed to represent the American people and not your self interests.

You have proven that you are not the lineal descendant of Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln, Roosevelt, or Reagan and will never be enshrined in legend. You are not America! You are not “We the people”, the symbol of honor, equal justice, freedom and liberty for all.

We pray for you and may God shed his grace on thee.

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Meeting on NYC’s Homeless Policies – May 31, 2023

 

Speakers: Patricia Leonard; James Trent; Kathy Masi; and Joan Harrison
Speakers

Kathy Masi, organizer of the Middle Village Glendale Coalition on Homelessness, said homeless is a big business in New York City.  An example is the Cooper Ave. Westhab adult male center for at least 200 adults.  Kitchen is made up of 3 microwaves and stacks of food in plastic containers.  Stolen catalytic converters have been kept on site by some residents.
Joan Harrison, homeless/unhoused; taught philosophy and classics at colleges and high schools for several years, emphasized that sleep deprivation and food are her major needs.  Just like food stamp, she recommended a “sleep stamp” voucher program.
Jim Trent, treasurer of Queens Civic Congress and the Creedmore Civic Association, explained how bed capacity used to house and care the mentally illed/disabled has been dramatically cut from thousands down to hundreds.
Patricia Leonard, LSW mental health for 15 years, gave examples how the homeless shelter system run by the administration and corporations is so dysfunctional.

Other Announcements:
– Elad Pines (Special Challenged Lives Matter, meeting notes)
– Edward Manfredonia (drug smuggling and drug epidemic)
– Aura Moody (New York Citizens Audit)
– Kynan Thistlethwaite (Diane Sare)
– Kevin O’Reilly (free bumper sticker)
– Steve Speer (Medical Freedom petitioning)

Candidate speakers having a Primary on June 27th
43rd Councilmanic: Vito LaBella (R,C)
47th Councilmanic: Anna Belfiore-Delfaus (R)
20th Councilmanic: Yu-Ching James Pai (R,C)

Candidates: Robert Bobrick (R,MF, 3rd); Arkadiusz Tomaszewski (R,C,MF, 39th); Kathy Lally (MF, 7th); Elizabeth Golluscio (R,MF, 6th); Marvin Jeffcoat (R,C,MF, 26th); Vito LaBella (R,C, 43rd); Jonathan Rinaldi (R,C,MF,P,MAH, 24th); Bernard Chow (R,C,CS,MF,P, 23rd); Anna Belfiore-Delfaus (R,MF, 47th); Zhile Cao (R,MF, 25th); Isaiah Vega (R,C,MF, 37th); James Pai (R,C,CS, 20th); Rusat Ramgopal (R,CS, 28th); Margurite Chandler (MF, 34th); Daniella May (R,P,MAD, 31st); Martha Rowen (R,C,MF, 33rd); and Danniel Maio (R,C,MF,MAD, 29th)

Our next meeting will be held on June 29th (Thursday) at Havurat Yisrael, 106-20 70 Avenue in Forest Hills, 7:30 pm.