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March 20, 2025

Statement on Non-Citizen-Voting Court of Appeals Victory from New York State Conservative Party Chairman Gerard Kassar

“In a major victory for common sense, the New York State Conservative Party and other clear-eyed plaintiffs just succeeded in their legal effort to prohibit non-citizen voting in New York City.  This historic 6-1 Court of Appeals decision is a win for every citizen of New York State. The fact that the case was overwhelmingly decided by a left-of-center court reflects on just how fundamental this suit was to U.S. democracy.

“The woke political left has tried to erase every distinction between citizens and foreigners in this country for decades. Their audacious attempt to add up 800,000 non-citizen voters to the New York City election rolls would have created a precedent for radical leftists nationwide. We shut that down today in, of all places, liberal New York. Maybe there’s some hope out there after all.”

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March 11, 2025

Statement on New Goldman Sachs Campus — IN DALLAS! — from
New York State Conservative Party Chairman Gerard Kassar

“When Goldman Sachs can’t afford New York, we’re in bigger trouble than we thought. Every common-sense political leader in New York State should now realize that.

“The opening of Goldman’s Sachs’s 800,000 square-foot campus in Dallas is a shot across the bow that even Governor Hochul and her progressive colleagues running the State Legislature can’t miss.

“So what’s the plan, Governor? New Yorkers are watching their economic pillars exit the state one by one. Five thousand Goldman Sachs jobs just moved to Dallas.  What are you doing about it, other than making things worse?”

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March 5, 2025

Full Statement on President Trump’s Address to Joint Session of Congress from New York State Conservative Party Chairman Gerard Kassar

“President Donald Trump’s address was a tour de force of energy and ideas. It made clear that, not only is America back, Americans are back as well.

“The President spoke plainly about the things Americans actually care about — U.S. job and wage growth, secure borders, public safety, peace through strength, national pride, and an education system that teaches rather than indoctrinates. These are common-sense conservative aims that have served as guideposts in the long and historically successful American experiment.

“President Trump’s mandate to bring common sense back to America has captured the public’s imagination and given the nation a clear path forward for the first time in a long time. The long American winter is ending.”

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March 4, 2025

Statement on President Trump’s Address to the Joint Session of Congress from New York State Conservative Party Chairman Gerard Kassar

“President Donald Trump has gotten out faster than any president in U.S. history. Tonight’s address was a tour de force of energy and ideas. His mandate to bring common sense back to America has captured the public’s imagination and given the nation a clear path forward for the first time in a long time.

“Democrats in the House Chamber badly embarrassed themselves tonight with gimmicks and disruptions. They showed their growing irrelevance on the national stage.”

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March 3, 2025

Statement on Gov. Hochul Corrections Officer Firings from New York State Conservative Party Chairman Gerard Kassar

“New York State Corrections Officers are striking because the Hochul Administration has failed to adequately protect officers, male and female, from years of inmate assaults spurred on by lax progressive ‘reforms.’ Now, because she failed to do her job protecting state employees, Governor Hochul is erroneously citing the Taylor Law to fire longstanding Corrections Officers, stripping their families of both income and healthcare benefits.  It’s outrageous.

”New York State Corrections Officers have a primary right to safety in the workplace. The State of New York isn’t providing it. It needs to. Get your act together, Madame Governor, and stop blaming Corrections employees for the State’s obvious failures. If you’re not willing to do your job, the courts need to step in and do it for you. Corrections Officers have a right to personal safety.”

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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.”