Check out the latest from NYGOP Volume 35 | October 17th, 2021 This Week at the NYGOP Follow Us On Social Media! ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ Dear John, Election Day is right around the corner! As Republicans continue efforts all across New York to get out the vote for their local candidates, here are some dates that you should keep in mind leading up to Election Day on November 2nd: Oct. 18: Last day for board of elections to receive application or letter of application by mail, online portal, email, or fax for general election ballot. Nov. 1: Last day to apply in person for a general election ballot. Nov. 2: Last day to postmark general election ballot. Must be received by the county board no later than Nov. 9th. Nov. 2: Last day to deliver general election ballot in person to your county board or any poll site in your county by close of polls on Election Day Early Voting Begins October 23rd and goes until October 31st. Click here to look up your registration status and polling location: [link removed] New Yorkers have witnessed the crippling destruction of one-Party Democrat rule both here at home and in Washington. This is our chance to send a huge message that voters are demanding CHANGE. It's time to restore respect for taxpayers and the rule of law. If you are fed up with the direction of America and New York, we need you to spread the word to your friends and family to get out to VOTE. With your help, we can celebrate big local victories this November, followed by a huge Red Wave in 2022. Sincerely, Nick Langworthy NYGOP Chairman Poll of the Week: Chairman Nick Langworthy wants to hear from you! Question: How would you grade the job Joe Biden has done as President? Select the Grade Below: A Select B Select C Select D Select F Select Election Integrity Alert! Flip Ballot, VOTE NO! This November, when you go to vote, remember to flip over the ballot and VOTE NO on the proposals. Then share this with your email contacts and social media friends to spread the word. Candidate of the Week! Every week we are choosing a candidate to highlight who needs your support! Joann Ariola Candidate- New York City Council District 32 Joann Ariola has been living and leading in the 32nd Council District for decades. She is a longtime Queens civic leader, wife, mother and grandmother whose career has always been focused on forging positive relationships between her neighbors and government agencies to promote peace and public safety. With 30 years of experience working for two mayors, as well as members of the NYC Council on both sides of the aisle, not for profits and private industry, Joann knows how to help us get through the challenging time all New Yorkers have been facing, bring us to brighter days, push through this pandemic and bring back our neighborhoods, better and stronger than ever…together. Joann knows what it’s like to raise a family in the 32nd Council District because she has and still is. As President of the Howard Beach Lindenwood Civic Association and Member of Community Board 10, Joann knows the importance of maintaining strong relationships between the police and her community. She will always support our first responders. As a show of that support, Joann and the Civic have led a blue ribbon initiative each year so that local police can be encouraged by seeing the support and appreciation they have earned. As President of the Civic, Joann hosts monthly meetings, so residents can voice their concerns to local elected officials, government agencies, the NYPD and various other relevant guest speakers. She is active in promoting Build the Block Initiative meetings with NYPD Neighborhood Coordination Officers. To get local youth off on the right foot, she participates in NYPD Meet and Greets so that young people get to know and build relationships with their local police. As a result of the homelessness crisis and the city doing nothing to help those with mental illness, Joann is active in organizations that collect toys and supplies for those in need which are donated to families of domestic violence, and local family shelters. Joann Ariola has the local experience needed to find common-sense solutions to the current issues our District is facing, fight for our fair share from City Hall and give all of us the quality of life we deserve, so our children and grandchildren can raise their families here too. Website Facebook Twitter Instagram Donate NYGOP Must See News: Churchill: Hochul claims change, but Malatras stays on Times Union You can understand why relatives continue to be suspicious. After so much dishonesty from the Cuomo administration, distrust is bound to linger. Plus, while Health Department Commissioner Howard Zucker is rightly departing, some of those involved in that dishonesty continue to have prominent roles in state government. Hello Jim Malatras. The State University of New York system chancellor is a longtime Cuomo insider closely linked to several of the former governor's scandals, including the cover-up of nursing home deaths. In fact, Malatras has acknowledged he helped edit a report that the Cuomo administration scrubbed of truthful nursing home fatality data. The report, which blamed nursing home deaths on employees, used numbers that didn't include residents who were transferred to hospitals before they died. Obviously, a Cuomo confidante had no business editing a Health Department report, but Malatras says his role didn't involve changing data. Watch Full Here Gasoline prices rise sharply in Mid-Hudson Valley and across state and nation Daily Freeman Average gasoline prices shot higher last week in Mid-Hudson Valley, New York state and the nation, according to GasBuddy.com. Rising oil prices were to blame. Local averages Monday morning, according to GasBuddy, were $3.26 per gallon in Ulster County, up 11 cents from a week earlier; $3.31 in Dutchess County, up 7 cents; $3.32 in Greene County, up a dime; and $3.29 in Columbia County, up 12 cents. The New York state average Monday was $3.33 per gallon, up 7.3 cents from a week earlier, while the national average rose 5.2 cents, to $3.25, GasBuddy reported. “Last week saw oil prices advance to their highest in seven years,” said Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis for GasBuddy. “… The nation’s gas prices were also pushed to their highest since 2014, all on OPEC’s decision not to raise production more than it already agreed to in July. … “The problems continue to relate to a surge in demand as the global economy recovers, combined with deep cuts to production from early in the pandemic, De Haan said. “If Americans can’t slow their appetite for fuels, we’ve got no place for prices to go but up.” Read Full Here At least 9 Rikers inmates recently freed by Gov. Hochul have been rearrested Fox News At least nine Rikers Island inmates recently given a Get Out of Jail Free card by Gov. Hochul have been arrested again, The Post has learned. Among those who fumbled the Sept. 17 free pass is a reputed gangbanger from Queens who not only was charged with possessing a loaded gun, but trying to bribe his way out of a return trip to the infamous jail, NYPD and law enforcement sources said. Stepfane "Stephon" Gilliam, 26, is a member of the Queensbridge Houses crew called Team No Lackin’, and has multiple aliases and 43 prior arrests, including 23 felonies, sources said. After just two weeks of freedom, Gilliam was pulled over by cops Sept. 29 at 9:45 p.m. at the corner of 31st Avenue and 21st Street in Queens, for alleged speeding and having too much tint on his 2004 BMW’s windows, authorities said. Responding cops found a warrant out for his arrest on a traffic violation, sources said. Cops then searched the BMW and recovered a .32 Colt revolver from the back seat. Read Full Here Parents rally for safety amid recent spate of NYC violence New York Post Dozens of Big Apple parents gathered outside City Hall on Sunday to demand more cops on the street and safety agents in schools amid a spate of recent violent incidents involving young people. “I hear my son crying out to me every day, ‘Mom, I want to live. I want to have wings to fly. I want to taste the world. I just want to live,’ ” said Eve Hendricks, whose 17-year-old son Brandon was shot and killed while attending a birthday cookout in June 2020. “We are living a nightmare because we do not know if our kids will return home from the school. We do not know if our kids will return home from the playground,” she said. Read Full Here Judge issues injunction against New York's vaccine mandate Times Union New York's vaccine mandate for health care workers was dealt a damaging blow on Tuesday when a federal judge in Utica granted a preliminary injunction on behalf of 17 medical workers who contend the state's failure to consider religious exemptions has violated their constitutional rights. The ruling suspends the mandate "to the extent that the (state) Department of Health is barred from enforcing any requirement that employers deny religious exemptions from COVID-19 vaccination or that they revoke any exemptions employers already granted before (the mandate was) issued." The state also is barred from interfering with the granting of religious exemptions going forward as the case is fully litigated in U.S. District Court. Gov. Kathy Hochul issued a statement immediately following the decision, saying her "responsibility as governor is to protect the people of this state, and requiring health care workers to get vaccinated accomplishes that. I stand behind this mandate, and I will fight this decision in court to keep New Yorkers safe."  Read Full Here Ready to take back our state? Contribute today! Donate Here 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!