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February 20, 2025

Statement on Corrupt $5.1 Million Cuomo Book Deal/Ethics Commission from New York State Conservative Party Chairman Gerard Kassar

“Although the Conservative Party does not support a state ethics commission that allows law school deans to play a decisive role in the commission’s membership, we do support this week’s Court of Appeals decision.

“Mr. Cuomo’s book contract was negotiated at the same time that his administration was hiding data on the number of nursing home deaths in New York, a clear possible motive for malfeasance. In addition, taxpayer-paid state workers were used to help Mr. Cuomo write the book, at a minimum an ethics violation, The hefty advance on Mr. Cuomo’s book, ‘American Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic,’ moreover, was way out of proportion with industry norms.

“New Yorkers need to learn exactly what happened. The Cuomo book deal reeks.”

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February 10, 2025

Hochul Fails to Delay Special Elections for Political Gain: Statement from New York State Conservative Party Chairman Gerard Kassar

“Governor Kathy Hochul’s cynical attempt to delay special elections for Congress and State Senate to gain political advantage in those races has failed (A4881). In New York’s 21st Congressional District, alone, more than 770,000 voters would have been disenfranchised by Mrs. Hochul’s unconstitutional power grab.

“This shameless attempt to circumvent the New York State Constitution likely would have taken place had it not been for the strong pushback of the Conservative and Republican parties and New York editorial writers.

“Voters are entitled to representation in Washington and Albany. What Governor Hochul tried to do was sneaky and wrong. The Conservative Party will continue to stand up for the rights of all voters — regardless of party affiliation — because, unlike so many Albany Democrats, we actually believe in democracy.”

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January 30, 2025

Statement on Zeldin Confirmation as EPA Administrator by New York State Conservative Party Chairman Gerard Kassar

“The New York State Conservative Party salutes the Senate for wisely confirming former Congressman Lee Zeldin as Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), a cabinet-level position in the new Trump Administration. The EPA vastly overreached during the Biden Administration, creating a counterproductive regulatory environment that suppressed billions of dollars in economic growth. Congressman Zeldin has the smarts and temperament to find the proper balance between environmental conservation and hysteria. It’s what the American people want.”

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January 28, 2025

Statement on Confirmation of Sean Duffy as Trump Transportation Secretary by New York State Conservative Party Chairman Gerard Kassar

“We hope [Duffy’s] first act as Transportation Secretary will be the repeal of the unfair and unnecessary Congestion Pricing Tax. Nothing would make New Yorkers happier.”

“The New York State Conservative Party congratulates former Wisconsin Congressman Sean Duffy on being confirmed as President Trump’s new Transportation Secretary.  President Trump made an inspired choice in Mr. Duffy. Secretary Duffy knows his way around Washington well, but more importantly for New Yorkers, he knows his way around the Big Apple as a former Fox News contributor. We hope that his first act as Transportation Secretary will be the repeal of the unfair and unnecessary Congestion Pricing Tax. Nothing would make New Yorkers happier.”

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January 21, 2025

Hochul Spending Out of Control; Will Drive More New Yorkers Out of State: New York State Conservative Party Chairman Gerard Kassar

‘New Yorkers Can’t Afford Any More of Gov. Hochul’s Affordability Plans.’

“No matter how loudly New Yorkers cry ‘uncle’, Gov. Kathy Hochul refuses to hear them. With the State drowning in debt, taxes, and nuisance fees, and with many families and small businesses hanging onto solvency by their fingernails, Mrs. Hochul is proposing a massive $10 billion increase in an already bloated State budget. This governor actually seems to believe — through magical thinking — that more government spending is the secret to ‘affordability’ in New York.

“Well, Governor Hochul, New Yorkers can’t afford any more of your affordability plans. The Governor’s proposed $252 billion budget is patently absurd. It’s well more than twice the size of Florida’s budget — a state with two million more people — and, under the same budget plan, New York will continue having the highest combined income taxes in America. Here’s our advice to New Yorkers: Invest in moving trucks in 2025. Until we break up one-party rule in Albany, the exodus will continue.”

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January 14, 2025

State of the State Response from New York State Conservative Party Chairman Gerard Kassar

“Governor Hochul Laid an Egg at The Egg.”

“Governor Kathy Hochul is going to tax, spend, and toll financially teetering New Yorkers into ‘affordability’ whether they like it or not. That’s the clear but absurd takeaway from the Governor’s State of the State address today.

“Mrs. Hochul seems to actually believe that expanding government — taking and spending even more of our money — is the way to bring relief to cash-strapped New Yorkers who perennially pay some of the highest taxes in America. That’s the exact governing attitude that put working- and middle-class New Yorkers in the hole they now occupy. Where is the common sense?

“The Governor has also made clear that she refuses to do anything of substance to address the crime and illegal migrant crises that her party directly caused with pro-criminal laws. Nothing but the full repeal of cashless bail, re-implementation of ‘Broken Windows’ policing, and ending New York’s counterproductive ‘sanctuary’ policies will accomplish those goals.

‘To Governor Hochul and her progressive colleagues running all three branches of state government, ‘affordability’ is the new buzzword. But to millions of New Yorkers eyeing the exit doors to other states, it’s the antonym for New York. This state is famously unaffordable, and Governor Hochul’s tired, big-government vision will only make things worse. Governor Hochul laid an egg at The Egg.”

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January 7, 2025

Kassar: Shut Down New York Reparations Committee
Before it Wastes Another Nickel

“New York’s divisive ‘Community Commission on Reparations Remedies’ has blown through most of its $5 million budget with zero to show for it. Now it wants more time — and another $5 million to waste. Shocker.

“Virtue signaling Democrats controlling the State Legislature will almost certainly renew the Commission — at any cost — knowing full well, in advance, what its recommendations will be: wealth distribution, the same goal the political Left has had since Marx published The Communist Manifesto in 1848. Reparations are just the latest tactic, and New Yorkers aren’t falling for it.

“We confidently predict that the Commission’s findings will lead to other ethnic groups demanding redress for past injustices. Indeed, turning New Yorkers against one another based on their skin color is now official state policy, arguably. Is it any wonder Americans are turning away from the Party of Jefferson and Jackson? (these former presidents have been lamentably cancelled by the Left.)

“Meanwhile, what has the ‘Commission’ accomplished? Can they show us their work product? New York Taxpayers are all eyes. Where’s the beef?”

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TRUMP CONSERVATIVE PARTY VOTE HIGHEST SINCE 1972
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Conservative Vote More Than Doubles Party Registration
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President-Elect Has Second, Third, and Fourth Highest Conservative Party Vote Count in History

Brooklyn, NY – Dec. 10…Monday’s vote certification by the New York State Board of Elections confirms that President Donald Trump received more votes on the New York State Conservative Party line for President than any other presidential candidate since 1972, New York State Conservative Party Chairman Gerard Kassar today announced.

Mr. Trump officially garnered 321,733 votes on the Conservative Party line this year, more than twice the Party’s statewide registration (158,797.) Indeed, in his three runs for President, Mr. Trump scored the second (2024: 321,733), third (2020: 296,335), and fourth highest (2016: 292,292) vote totals in the Party’s 62-year history. President-elect Trump did better in New York with each subsequent election, the Party noted.

“President-elect Donald Trump knocked it out of the park on the Conservative Party line in New York,” Chairman Kassar said. “His vote tallies are the second, third, and fourth highest vote tallies in our 62-year history, and that’s pretty extraordinary. But what should impress people most is that New Yorkers — subject to a never-ending barrage of left-wing media — increased their vote tally for President Trump in each of his three runs. They saw through the nonsense and voted for common sense.”

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December 9, 2024

Statement on Daniel Penny Acquittal  by
New York State Conservative Party Chairman Gerard Kassar

“New York City jurors are a lot wiser than progressive New York City district attorneys, and thank God for that. An  extraordinary injustice was almost done to a Good Samaritan, thanks to the twisted -pro-criminal leanings of Manhattan D.A. Alvin Bragg. Mr. Bragg has no business being in that office, and we’re hopeful that city voters will agree in November. Daniel Penny is owed thanks — and an enormous apology — from the City of New York. This is not how heroes should be treated.”

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