Check out the latest from NYGOP Volume 60 | May 7th, 2022 This Week at the NYGOP Follow Us On Social Media! Dear Friend, Democrats' cozy corrupt cabal was on full display in Albany this week when they introduced and passed legislation allowing Hochul's LG Brian Benjamin to get off the ballot. This was a gross abuse of power and wrong in so many ways. Hochul chose her corrupt running mate for lieutenant governor, but in New York, candidates for LG run separately. Even Democrats have the option to vote for another Democrat candidate, but Hochul just didn't want the cloud of her horrible decision hanging over her head. So she and her co-conspirators in the legislature used their power to change the rules and hope New Yorkers just forget. Just like with Cuomo, they allowed Benjamin to slink out of office without impeachment. Hochul's replacement LG, Antonio Delgado, is not much better. He also supports the Green New Deal, cashless bail, ending mandatory sentencing, and voted to open up police officers and their families to civil lawsuits. He has taken money from radical groups like Indivisible and AOC's PAC, whom he has voted with 92% of the time. But Democrats' self-serving abuse of power didn't stop there. They also continued an embarrassing last-ditch attempt to save their gerrymandered maps with high-priced Washington lawyers filing a ridiculous lawsuit that the judge slapped down once again. Instead of devoting their time to fixing problems like their crime crisis or helping taxpayers, they focus all their energy on trying to rig themselves into permanent power. The only way to stop them is by throwing them out of office this November. If New Yorkers want to clean up Albany, it starts with breaking up one-Party rule. Only then can there be true accountability. 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Donate Here Candidate Of The Week Marc Molinaro Candidate for Congress NY-19 Website Facebook Twitter Instagram Donate Marc was first elected to public office at the age of 18 in 1994, serving on the Village of Tivoli Board of Trustees. In 1995, he became the youngest mayor in the United States. He was re-elected mayor five times and elected four times to the Dutchess County Legislature. In 2006, he brought his passion for public service to Albany when elected to represent the 103rd District in the New York State Assembly. Now, as County Executive, Marc serves as Second Vice President for the New York State Association of Counties (NYSAC). Marc has been an innovator in New York, establishing a holistic approach to dealing with residents’ health. By combining the former Department of Health and Department of Mental Hygiene and creating the Department of Behavioral and Community Health (DBCH), Marc focused on the community’s health as a whole-- taking into account every individual’s physical and mental health. This inclusive approach to providing the appropriate health care to Dutchess County has proven effective and continues to improve the lives of community members every day. In the same spirit of inclusive care, Marc established “ThinkDIFFERENTLY” in 2015. This program is a call to action, a challenge for Dutchess County residents to look at the potential in their neighbors with special needs instead of dwelling on their differences. “ThinkDIFFERENTLY” asks individuals, businesses, communities and municipalities to break down barriers for residents with special needs. In 2016, Marc appointed Dutchess County’s Deputy Commissioner for Special Needs, the first such position in New York State. The Deputy Commissioner for Special Needs serves as an advocate for individuals and families with special needs and abilities, providing personalized support to everyone who needs it . Marc has also brought his “ThinkDIFFERENTLY” message statewide, holding forums across New York State to encourage other communities to embrace the initiative; more than 100 communities across New York State and even across the nation have since adopted “ThinkDIFFERENTLY” resolutions, showing their support for residents of all abilities Molinaro is a graduate of Dutchess Community College, where he earned a Dutchess United Educators award, and the PACE Land Use Law Center Community Leadership Alliance. He has been recognized by the Greater Southern Dutchess Chamber of Commerce and “Capitol” news publication as one of their first “Forty under Forty” leaders. The Albany Times Union cited him as one of Albany’s “True Reformers,” the Hudson Register Star recognized him as a “strong advocate,” and the Poughkeepsie Journal called Molinaro a “voice of reason." Hudson Valley Magazine readers have voted Molinaro “Best Politician” in the Hudson Valley region seven times. County Executive Molinaro lives in Red Hook with his wife Corinne and children Abigail, Jack, Eli, and Theo. NYGOP Must See News: Op-Ed by NYGOP Chair Nick Langworthy: Dems’ deal with the Working Families Party is bad news for New York Daily News Op-Ed New York Democrats recently announced they were abandoning plans to create a new ballot line called the Fair Deal Party after getting reassurances from the Working Families Party that Gov. Hochul would have their line after the primary. The irony here is that the WFP’s radical left agenda is neither a fair deal nor good for the state’s working families. In fact, it would be downright catastrophic for law-abiding taxpayers. But the details behind the deal New Yorkers should be concerned about is the one Hochul cut with this group of defund-the-police, tax-and-spend socialists in order to stay in power. Nothing comes for free, especially in politics, and the WFP’s price to not play spoiler in the general election is going to be costly. Democrats’ marriage with a party that aligns itself with the Democratic Socialists of America and proudly backs Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s “Squad” means plenty was promised. It shouldn’t surprise anyone. What started as a fringe element is now the tail wagging the dog. Kathy Hochul knows this, and it’s why she aims to please. Immediately after ascending to the governorship, she adopted the Kirsten Gillibrand playbook and did a lurch to the left so dramatic that even the queen herself must have been proud. She was so desperate to establish her leftist bona fides that in her first major decision as governor, she selected a “defund the police” Democrat engulfed in shady ethics scandals as lieutenant governor. Brian Benjamin has since been arrested and resigned from office. Her replacement, Antonio Delgado, is not much better. He has taken money from AOC’s PAC, which sets litmus tests for candidates including supporting defunding the police, has voted with her 92% of the time, openly supported “a Green New Deal” and cashless bail, ending mandatory sentencing and voted to open up police officers to civil lawsuits. It was only just a few short months ago that the State Democratic Party Chair Jay Jacobs himself called the WFP’s policy priorities “divisive” and “very problematic for candidates running in the suburbs and upstate." Read Full Here Judge mocks New York Democrats’ redistricting ‘Hail Mary’ case Politico  A federal judge Wednesday denied Democrats a request for an emergency injunction to have New York use Democratic-drawn district lines for congressional elections. Then the judge proceeded to relentlessly mock every aspect of their request. The case stems from the surprise court decision last week to throw out the Democratic-drawn lines for House seats in New York that had left the party poised to pick up at least three seats in November. “In the 102 years since my father, then a Ukrainian refugee, came into this country, if there were two things that he drilled into my head, they were … free, open, rational elections [and] respect for the courts,” said Southern District of New York Judge Lewis Kaplan, a Democrat. “The relief that I’m being asked to give today impinges, to some degree, on the public perception of both. And I’m not going to do that.” Kaplan’s hearing, held in Manhattan but conducted primarily by conference call, was the first step in Democrats’ last-ditch attempt to save the lines approved by the Legislature earlier this year. Those lines were blocked by the state Court of Appeals last week, and the June 28 primary was soon rescheduled to Aug. 23 to give a judge time to draw new maps. Read Full Here Hochul-Backed Bill To Seal Convicts’ Records Seen as ‘Christmas for Criminals’ New York Sun The bill is expected to see resistance in the state senate. On April 25 Senator Thomas O’Mara tried to tie the bill to 2019’s bail reform, a central issue in this year’s state-level elections. “Another day in Albany, another set of pro-criminal policies pushed by one-party rule,” Mr. O’Mara said. “The crisis, caused by Democrats’ cashless bail and other soft-on-crime policies, could be stopped today if they stopped pushing a radical, pro-criminal agenda.” New York GOP chairman Nick Langworthy told the Sun that Clean Slate “is Christmas for criminals,” adding: “New York Democrats spend their days dreaming up ways to make life easier for criminals while law-abiding taxpayers continue to suffer.” Read Full Here Is Kathy Hochul Losing Her Party? Democrats are starting to open up about the governor, who promised to be the un-Cuomo. Intelligencer On Monday evening, as Albany lawmakers tried to help Governor Kathy Hochul undo the mess she made by selecting Brian Benjamin as lieutenant governor, a Democratic lawmaker made a confession to a Republican colleague who opposed changing the law to force Benjamin off the ballot. “I don’t like this feeling. I don’t like this feeling at all. I mean, I really hate agreeing with you,” the lawmaker told him. “We wouldn’t be doing this if it wasn’t a favor for the f*****g governor,” the lawmaker said in an interview following the vote. The bill passed both chambers narrowly, with more than 30 Democrats voting against the measure, which allows a candidate to be removed from the ballot if they are arrested or charged with or convicted of a crime. Hochul immediately signed the bill into law and removed Benjamin from the June primary ballot, a month after he resigned from office following his indictment on multiple federal corruption charges. “I respect my colleagues, but I do not understand how they think that this is not going to come back to haunt them,” the lawmaker added. Anger over the legislation was the latest sign that the honeymoon Hochul enjoyed from her own party after taking over from Andrew Cuomo last summer is over. Over the past several weeks, Hochul has been embroiled in a series of controversies not limited to Benjamin that have dented her standing within the party and raised fears among Democrats that a Republican could make it to the governor’s mansion for the first time since George Pataki. It’s an abrupt change for Hochul, who promised a new era of Democratic comity following Cuomo’s brutal reign. Read Full Here Gerrymander fiasco proves Hochul is a creature of Albany’s corrupt culture like Cuomo New York Post So much for a governor who took office vowing to change the culture of Albany. With her foolish Benjamin pick, her obsessive fund-raising from special interests, her near-billion-gift to the (out of state) owners of her hometown football team, her ballooning of the state budget, her failure to win major fixes to New York’s demented criminal-justice “reforms” and now the Hochulmander disaster, she’s proved herself as much a creature of that corrupt culture as her disgraced predecessor, Andrew Cuomo. 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!