Check out the latest from NYGOP Volume 53 | March 13th, 2022 This Week at the NYGOP Follow Us On Social Media! Dear Friend, This week brought another crushing blow to Americans’ wallets with surging gas prices and the highest inflation numbers since 1982. The hardship this is causing on household budgets is real. Too many seniors on fixed incomes, working and middle-class New Yorkers and single parents are making the tough choices between food, heating their homes, and filling their gas tanks. It’s a devastating reality, but what is the Biden Administration’s response to their self-made crisis? They are telling everyone to go out and buy Teslas. It’s infuriating--and just pure insanity-- to suggest that Americans can go out and drop more than $50,000 on an electric car to deal with the energy crisis. Not only are they stunningly tone-deaf, but they are also lying directly to the American public by blaming the entirety of rising prices on Russia’s invasion into Ukraine. Gas prices have been steadily climbing since the day he took office and immediately revoked the permit for the Keystone Pipeline. We have been experiencing 40-year highs on inflation long before Putin even began moving a single troop toward the border. How stupid do they think the American public is? The truth is, inflation and gas prices are the direct result of Washington’s policies under the Biden-Schumer-Pelosi radical agenda. Their spending spree and war on energy have brought us to this moment. It is a very painful reminder that elections have consequences. We went from American energy independence with low prices to now relying on countries like Venezuela through OPEC. This not only affects our wallets but has a huge impact on our national security. If you don’t believe how radicalized they have become over their energy policies, look no further than the disgusting display of New York Senate Democrats this week, who stood proudly grinning with a banner of a plane flying into the Twin Towers equating it to climate change. Using imagery of the darkest day in America and New York’s history--a memory that is still so painful for so many families--is beyond reproach. The truth is, they are so obsessed with their extreme agenda, nothing is off-limits. The pain of their policies is only just beginning. We simply cannot afford another year of total Democrat control in Washington and New York. Our New York Republican Party is the Party of common-sense solutions. We want our nation to be safe, secure and prosperous. That is what’s on the ballot this November. Finally, please join me in continuing to pray for the Ukrainian people. We are all watching in horror as Putin wages war crimes against innocent civilians, including women and children. I am so proud of the countless New Yorkers (including our former Governor George Pataki who is on the Ukrainian border right now) who have pitched in to help this during this devastating humanitarian crisis. Our thoughts are with them all.  Sincerely, Nick Langworthy NYGOP Chairman ICYMI: NYGOP Chairman Nick Langworthy Opens the 2022 NYGOP Convention NYGOP Chairman Nick Langworthy delivers his welcome speech to open the 2022 New York Republican Committee State Convention and lays out the NYGOP strategy for 2022. Watch Here President Donald J. Trump Joins Real America Podcast with GOP Chair Ronna McDaniel Listen Here Interested in Running for Office? Taking Back New York Starts With You! Whether you just want to talk to someone and learn more about what it takes to run for office or you've already made the decision and are getting to work, please complete this form and our staff will contact you to let you know about upcoming training opportunities, events, or other ways we can help. Click Here! NYGOP Must See News: Photo credit: Marie French/Politico New York Democrats blasted for posing with sign comparing 9/11 to climate change Fox News Two Democratic lawmakers in New York are facing criticism for posing with a sign that invoked an image of 9/11 to promote climate change awareness. "The fact that Senate Democrats stood proudly grinning in front of 9/11 imagery to advance an extreme energy agenda tells you everything you need to know about their radical views," the New York Republican Party posted on Twitter Wednesday along with a photo of State Sens. Rachel May and Robert Jackson posing behind a sign that showed a plane with the words "climate change" heading toward the now-destroyed World Trade Center towers. "It wasn’t a gaffe, it was a revealing display of how out of touch they are with everyday NYers," the post added. Read Full Here Eric Adams endorses putting drug convicts ‘front in line’ for pot dispensary licenses New York Post State Republican Party Chairman Nick Langworthy all but telegraphed that the preferential hiring of ex-cons will be used as a major campaign issue against Democrats in this fall’s elections for statewide and legislative offices. “Classic Albany where everything is a rigged process driven by special interests rather than merit. Under Democrat rule, drug dealers get lucrative contracts and law-abiding small business owners are treated like criminals. This madness must stop in the next election,” Langworthy said. Senate Republican Minority Leader Robert Ortt chimed in, “Once again, Albany Democrats are prioritizing criminals and drug dealers over law-abiding New Yorkers. Not only are they giving a leg up to those who have broken the law, they are planning to use hundreds of millions in taxpayers dollars to do so. Every New Yorker should be outraged at their latest insane proposal.” Read Full Here Religious Jews Turn Out To Support The GOP JewishPress.com At the Republican Nominating Convention held February 28 and March 1 at the Garden City Hotel, you couldn’t turn around without bumping into a Jew wearing a yarmulka, black hat and tzitzis networking with political candidates as if they were old friends. Prestigious rabbonim were called upon to offer opening and closing prayers at the convention. “I like Lee Zeldin very much,” Rabbi Shimon Kramer, spiritual leader of the Chabad Center for Jewish Life in Merrick, Nassau County, told The Jewish Press. “I think he’s a great guy… He has a Jewish soul, a neshama, and he’s very much proud of it. We’re proud of him. We’re not judgmental. We look at him the way he is.” Kramer issued the closing prayer on the first day of the convention. Read Full Here Push to suspend gas tax for New York State RochesterFirst.com Lawmakers are calling to temporarily suspend the gas tax in New York State in an effort to save New Yorkers money as gas prices continue to climb. “These are costs that are just astronomical and we are asking people to basically buckle up? No. We need to give them some relief, ” explained Senator Peter Oberacker. “We need to give them some hope, and that’s what we’re doing.” Republican Senator Peter Oberacker represents Central New York. He is now sponsoring The New York Gas Tax Relief Act, that if passed, would suspend New York’s gas tax until September. Capitol Correspondent, Jamie DeLine was told New York’s tax on gasoline is about 48 cents per gallon, and diesel fuel is nearly 47 cents per gallon. Read Full Here Former NY Gov. George Pataki heads to Ukraine-Hungary border for relief effort New York Post Former three-term New York Gov. George Pataki is leading a delegation to provide humanitarian relief to 200,000 Ukrainian refugees who’ve fled to neighboring Hungary following Russia’s invasion of their homeland. “We have money, food, clothing and medical supplies we can deliver,” Pataki, whose paternal grandparents were from Hungary, told The Post on Tuesday. He said he will visit the Hungary-Ukraine border town of Kisvárda after landing in Budapest on Thursday. He also expects to meet with top Hungarian officials as well as the leader of the country’s Catholic Church, Cardinal Peter Erdo. “We want to assess what it’s like at the border and fill any holes so the refugees are getting the help they need. I think it’s crucial to be there,” said Pataki, who help lead New York’s recovery following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. Read Full Here Ready to take back our state? Contribute today! Donate $50 Donate $100 Donate $250 Donate $500 www.nygop.org New York Republican State Committee | 315 State Street, Albany, NY 12210 Unsubscribe [email protected] Update Profile | Constant Contact Data Notice Sent by [email protected] powered by Try email marketing for free today!