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The Ed Cox-led Republican Occasion in New York State is just like the gang that would not shoot straight. First, there was the nonsensical George Santos ouster, through which a cadre of disgruntled Republican congressmen, together with Nick LaLota and Mike Lawler, backed by state get together leaders, led the hassle to expel the previous Congressman from NY-03, as a result of, at backside, they have been jealous of his recognition among the many MAGA grassroots – and extraordinary success story – relative to their very own.
This completely braindead maneuver pressured a particular election, through which the Democratic candidate, Tom Suozzi, simply gained again his seat. The State Occasion nominated an unknown, extremely incompetent politician by the title of Mazi Pilip, who was a registered Democrat and, even worse, detached to President Trump. Pilip, seemingly unaware of the weaponized justice system occurring in her personal yard with the political prosecution of President Trump by bad-faith actors like Letitia James and Alvin Bragg, blithely opined that “no one is above the legislation” – maybe probably the most tone-deaf assertion a Republican candidate from New York may presumably make.
Moderately than denounce the witch-hunt in daring and emphatic phrases – in spite of everything, the state is threatening the company demise penalty in opposition to The Trump Group by penalizing him and his grownup sons of near half a billion {dollars} in fines – with over $100,000 of further accrued “curiosity” day-after-day the President fails to place up the cash – for a very victimless crime. With Letitia James’ blessing, Decide Engoron additionally assigned an “impartial monitor” (who occurs to be a Trump-hating, Clinton appointed decide, Barbara Jones) to “oversee” the President’s enterprise exercise within the state for the subsequent 5 years. That is pure communism; even when one believed, wrongly, that President Trump had dedicated a criminal offense, and that the prosecution in opposition to him had no political significance in any way, the punishment leveled in opposition to him – actually to sap him dry of all money reserves – is grossly disproportionate to the alleged fraud, an extreme tremendous squarely in violation of the Eighth Modification.
After Mazi’s marketing campaign went down in flames, one would assume that with a little bit introspective self-reflection, the Occasion would adapt to the emotions of their constituents and eventually embrace Donald Trump wholeheartedly. In any case, her defeat not solely simply value the New York Republican delegation a seat in Congress, however moreover, it narrowed the Republicans’ razor-thin majority within the Home of Representatives to a measly two seats. The foolishness of New York Republicans could nicely value the GOP management over the Home in November, even with President Trump’s return on the prime of the ticket.
The blame for this may be squarely positioned on Ed Cox and his lackeys within the Home of Representatives – the Trump holdouts and confirmed losers, just like the aforementioned Nick LaLota (NY-01), Anthony D’Esposito (NY-04), Mike Lawler (NY-17), Andrew Garbarino (NY-02) – and a number of other others, who stubbornly refuse to embrace Trump and his insurance policies, again and again spurning his constituents as a result of their Cox-sponsored donors are bedfellows with globalists, and reportedly additionally, by way of the Cox community, have hyperlinks to the Soros household and the Chinese language Communist Occasion, amongst different left wing causes and teams. These teams successfully function managed or paid opposition, providing the pretext of bipartisanship for New York’s Republican institution, the precise hand of the Uniparty.
And but, Cox refused — and nonetheless refuses — to study his lesson. Fewer than two weeks after the Pilip debacle when it grew to become time to decide on a senate candidate, Cox threw all his political and monetary capital weight what was, in impact, one other Democrat (given how a lot he has donated to them) – and Trump hater, in Mike Sapraicone. Sapraicone was chosen by a closed-door “conference” in upstate New York attended by not more than 250 state committee leaders, all of whom have been strong-armed by a handful of get together bosses into backing their handpicked candidate. The explanations the get together leaders – significantly in probably the most highly effective counties, equivalent to Nassau, Suffolk, and Westchester – favored Sapraicone are apparent: he hates Trump and has described the main presidential candidate as a “bully” with an enormous ego. He has equally lodged aspersions in opposition to key Trump allies, together with Mayor Rudy Giuliani, whom Sapraicone additionally reportedly referred to as “owned” and “corrupt” at a latest non-public dinner in Westchester.
Sapraicone has donated tens of hundreds of {dollars} in simply the previous couple of years to a number of the worst Democrat politicians in New York, like Letitia James, Andrew Cuomo, and Tom Suozzi, who actually have blood on their palms for all of the crime their insurance policies have ushered in and deaths their disastrous lockdowns have precipitated – immediately resulting in the best murder charges the state has witnessed in years, additional including to a catastrophic unlawful migrant disaster that has pushed companies out in droves. New York Democrats have additionally promoted an unprecedented assault on constitutional rights and the rule of legislation, enabling a two-tiered system of justice to enter into overdrive that has led to the political persecution of Donald Trump, their principal political opponent.
As New York is being run to the bottom by incompetent, corrupt, and certainly, evil, Democrats – the Republican Occasion, which must be nominating fearsome fighters who embrace President Trump’s profitable recipe of placing America First over the agenda of the Uniparty and globalists, has confirmed fully ineffective. Moderately than put their finest foot ahead, New York Republican leaders stay caught of their outdated methods, refusing to alter with the occasions by embracing insurance policies equivalent to limiting immigration, election integrity, legislation and order, ending the weaponized system of justice, standing up totally free speech, and supporting financial nationalism that favors tax cuts and different incentives for American companies, whereas closing our doorways to China and different overseas opponents.
There’s a motive George Santos, who swung a seat that voted practically ten factors in favor of Biden, to just about ten factors in favor of Santos: and that was due to his boldness to face for the rules of America First, together with his unapologetic assist for President Trump and his agenda of putting America’s pursuits over that of the Ukraine, Taiwan, Mexico, China, or the Center East. That is additionally why Congresswoman Elise Stefanik, who endorsed President Trump manner again in November of 2022, continues to be probably the most profitable (and highly effective) member of the New York State Republican delegation – by far. As an alternative of operating away from Donald Trump, as lots of her colleagues did (a few of whom have both nonetheless not endorsed President Trump, or solely did so on the eleventh hour – too little, too late), Stefanik threw her weight behind Trump out of the gate, changing into considered one of his most prolific fundraisers, and consequently has ascended all the best way to the third strongest Republican, not solely in New York, however in your complete Home.
MAGA can be, emphatically, the rationale why Lee Zeldin carried out in addition to he did within the 2022 gubernatorial race, through which he misplaced by lower than ten factors to Kathy Hochul, one of many strongest showings for a Republican in a statewide workplace race in a long time. The explanation for Zeldin’s success is hardly as a result of a charismatic persona or world-renown mind (he’s poor in each classes): however relatively, he learn the tea leaves and understood that his get together was in a pro-Trump temper. If Zeldin had leaned into Trump much more, and never reportedly advised company donors behind closed doorways that “I by no means mentioned the outcomes of the 2020 election have been illegitimate,” he may need truly gained his extremely winnable race in opposition to one of the unpopular governors within the nation.
And but, relatively than heed the teachings of Santos, Stefanik, and to a lesser extent, Zeldin, Cox and his lackeys have achieved simply the alternative – doubling down within the route of liberalizing their get together, by embracing such initiatives as prison justice reform or enjoying the id politics card. Liberalism is principally useless and gone in America: relatively than open borders, mass migration, and woke insurance policies, People repeatedly spurn these insurance policies – and as a substitute embrace a crackdown on all of them, recognizing them as decadent, outmoded, and essentially anti-American.
If Cox et al. have been truly good, he and his cronies would undertake Trump’s rhetoric – decry the two-tiered justice system which punishes People for talking their minds or exercising their constitutional rights, equivalent to to assemble or interact in self-defense, whereas each unlawful, violent felon, and their mom, will get off scot free. Living proof: Nassau County Govt, Joe Cairo, considered one of Cox’s right-hand-men. Cairo lately attributed Pilip’s loss – to not being an incompetent and silly candidate, which she was – however to the truth that “Lengthy Island isn’t but prepared for a black lady” (though they elected George Santos, a Latino who was additionally the primary overtly homosexual Republican ever elected to Congress, by overwhelming margins).
No line higher encapsulates simply how out of contact Cox and his colleagues are than that.
The underside line is id politics shouldn’t matter: competence and advantage do – which, for the needs of New York Republican candidates, at all times equates to supporting Donald Trump (and having a longstanding historical past of doing so), full cease. On this cycle, the candidates who’ve embraced President Trump and the MAGA motion he represents – together with proclaiming his place on the illegitimacy of the 2020 election – are certain to carry out a lot better than those that run for the hills, following Cox’s chosen lapdogs within the Home: the LaLota’s, Garbarino’s, and Lawler’s of the delegation.
Thus far on this race, two candidates – Cara Castronuova and Josh Eisen – have run circles round Sapraicone’s monitor document on the problems that matter most, and it isn’t even shut. Whereas Sapraicone palms out an increasing number of cash to those that would bankrupt his enterprise and put him behind bars if it have been as much as them in a pathetic try and curry favor, Castronuova and Eisen have stood with President Trump by way of thick and skinny, believing in him each step of the best way – even within the darkest hour, equivalent to January 6th, 2021 and its quick aftermath, when it was inconceivable to many Republicans, besides true believers, that President Trump would ever once more be positioned to retake the White Home, a lot as he’s now.
For these causes, President Trump has reportedly observed the corruption within the New York State GOP. The forty fifth President reportedly convened a non-public assembly with Cara Castronuova, who positioned in a powerful second place end finally month’s Binghamton conference, regardless of having a shoestring price range and a motley marketing campaign crew, in Mar-a-Lago on Wednesday to debate the state of affairs of the New York Republican Occasion. This, regardless of his earlier endorsement of Sapraicone, which has been contested by a number of the most pro-Trump individuals in New York, and all through the nation, together with Mayor Giuliani, Roger Stone, 2022 Gubernatorial candidate, Andrew Giuliani, Sid Rosenberg, former Congressman Peter King, NYYRC President, Gavin Wax, Laura Loomer, and yours really.
It’s unlucky that Ed Cox and his crew are so incompetent and out of contact with their voters, and President Trump, particularly in a pivotal election 12 months, the place the 45th President is now polling inside single digits of Biden within the Empire State (a lead that may very well be a lot increased with the enthusiastic cooperation of Occasion management). Even when Trump doesn’t win the state outright, a fiercely pro-Trump candidate paired with him on the poll, like Castronuova, could nicely prevail – it will be a tragedy to squander this closing alternative with President Trump’s title on the prime of the poll, particularly when his title is paired with a mediocre no-name like Sapraicone, who doesn’t perceive the political second, and clearly doesn’t have what it takes to win this 12 months (or any 12 months for that matter).
A Higher, Profitable Technique
If New York’s GOP have been really invested in profitable, not roleplaying as managed opposition, here’s what they might do: they might first pressure Sapraicone to drop out of the race. This could occur no matter whether or not or not President Trump rescinds his endorsement, which he has achieved with different candidates, equivalent to Mo Brooks, who’ve confirmed insufficiently loyal to him and the MAGA motion.
Subsequent, they need to throw their assets, time, and vitality behind Castronuova or Eisen – no holds barred. Whoever doesn’t get tapped by the get together because the Senate candidate must be the Occasion-backed candidate to retake NY-03, George Santos’ outdated seat, on this November’s election in opposition to Tom Suozzi. As a result of they’re each deserving (and affordable) individuals, a truce must be made between Castronuova and Eisen. The motion will be a lot stronger, they usually can go a lot additional in conducting their mutual aim to problem the regnant, incompetent Cox-led State GOP, by uniting collectively.
They’d be well-advised to ally with different pro-Trump rebel candidates, difficult the RINO incumbents, significantly on Lengthy Island, who’re as incompetent as they’re silly, shopping for the anti-Trump, pro-Cox kool-aid hook, line, and sinker. If Santos really mounts a run in opposition to the troglodyte LaLota in NY-01, he ought to have Eisen and Castronuova’s assist – and Santos ought to assist them in return, of their shared dedication to remake the Occasion within the picture and likeness of Donald John Trump.
Furthermore, two of probably the most highly effective Republicans within the state – Elise Stefanik and Lee Zeldin – ought to resolve the place they stand and endorse the MAGA insurgents who’ve taken to activity Ed Cox’s hegemony. It’s clear that the get together in New York is shifting quickly within the pro-Trump, MAGA route – the dinosaurs like Cox, Cairo, and Jesse Garcia in Suffolk County who’re desperately clinging onto the outdated, unsuccessful methods will quickly have their reckoning. Underneath their tenure, New York State has descended from among the finest states within the Union to one of many worst, throughout each metric: crime, value of residing, high quality of life, high quality of training, corruption, election integrity, you title it.
It’s right here that the Biden DOJ has been capable of most efficiently weaponize the justice system and switch it in opposition to President Trump. Thus far, each single Republican in elected workplace in New York – federal, state, and native – have been stone-cold silent concerning the egregious abuses of energy from Letitia James’ workplace, and Arthur Engoron’s courtroom. Up to now, solely Stefanik has filed an ethics grievance in opposition to Letitia James, an admirable first step for certain, however one that ought to have had the common assist of your complete Occasion — federal and state lawmakers, in addition to county chairpersons.
If Cox weren’t bedfellows with the Democrats and Kirsten Gillibrand, he would have supported a party-wide condemnation in opposition to the weaponized system of justice in opposition to Donald Trump now occurring in his house state. He would have demanded each Republican within the New York State delegation to comply with Stefanik’s lead in lodging a authorized and media marketing campaign in opposition to James, Bragg, Engoron, and Hochul, utilizing each software within the chest to place an finish to this charade for good. The one motive why the Democrats in New York have gotten away with operating roughshod across the Structure and rule of legislation is as a result of the Republican opposition sits on their palms and does completely nothing, full cease.
Many individuals are fast to attribute this to malice, or a conspiracy involving the Uniparty. However because the saying goes, “by no means attribute to malice that which is satisfactorily defined by stupidity.” New York, below Cox’s rule, has principally quashed entrepreneurship of all kinds, however significantly of the Donald Trump selection, that in yesteryear constructed up this state from the bottom and made New York Metropolis into the main metropolis not solely of the USA, however of the world.
Right now, our Republicans care extra about elevating incompetent individuals to positions of authority, like James and Bragg, out of fealty to BLM and woke actions, in order that they aren’t seen as “racist” by their Democratic betters. Maybe Cox really believes in Woke’s catechism, through which case he’s patently unqualified to be a standardbear for the Republican Occasion, that’s purported to, at the least on paper, signify the opposition to Left-wing absurdity.
Cox is at the moment in his second stint as New York State GOP chairman, having beforehand served from 2009-2019 after stepping apart for a quick, four-year interregnum. His earlier stint too was mired by accusations of incompetence and a reluctance to hold out his duties. For instance, in line with a 2010 article for the NY Day by day Information, Cox then was hit with accusations that he was not placing his finest foot ahead by nominating top-quality candidates in opposition to Kirsten Gillibrand, who had solely been lately elected to the Senate. Now, fourteen years later, historical past has vindicated these accusations: Gillibrand stays in energy, secure as ever, whereas Cox continues to appoint bottom-of-the-barrel candidates like anti-Trump Sapraicone, who has completely no shot of profitable in opposition to the formidable Democratic incumbent.
These details would lend additional credence to final week’s revelations, reported by The Gateway Pundit and different shops, that Cox is definitely aiding and abetting Gillibrand by intentionally placing up the worst doable candidates as a result of he has a monetary stake in Gillibrand’s long-term success. Proof for this concept is present in the truth that Cox is a board member of the corporate “League of Conservation Voters,” a far-left environmental group that promotes damaging insurance policies like ESG, the Inexperienced New Deal, and wind generators, and has donated a whole lot of hundreds of {dollars} to Democrats and anti-Trump Republicans and affiliated PACs – together with, you guessed it, to Sapraicone’s opponent, Kirsten Gillibrand!
So, whether or not he’s animated by an anti-Trump ideology, a enterprise curiosity, or pure laziness, Cox has each motive to make sure the worst doable candidates are nominated again and again for statewide races, to make sure the Democrats in management – to whom his companies assist with a whole lot of hundreds of {dollars} of political donations – keep in energy. That will clarify Sapraicone, and previous to him, Mazi Pilip. It might additionally, oddly sufficient, clarify Santos, who was tapped the candidate within the NY-03 race by Cox acolyte, Nassau County GOP chair Joseph Cairo, maybe considering that Santos, an unknown on the time, who had beforehand misplaced in 2020 by a 13-point wallop to Suozzi, can be a surefire loser, one who would protect the Democratic-led established order. When Santos slipped by way of the cracks, shocked the world, and truly gained, it despatched your complete State Occasion into an anxious frenzy: accordingly, they have been fast to mobilize practically their all Home Republican members (significantly these closest to Cox, Cairo, and Garcia), save Stefanik, to expel Santos, irrespective of the devastating political value to the general Home majority.
Certainly, with Santos’ risk looming – Santos introduced on the evening of the State of the Union tackle that he was planning to main Nick LaLota in NY-01 – Suffolk County’s Chairman, Jesse Garcia, went out of his approach to difficulty a preemptive assertion to denounce Santos’ newest bid, figuring out full nicely that Santos’ return to Congress may very well be a deadly blow to the Cox-led regime that has introduced the Empire State to near-ruin.
Cox, in his earlier stint as State Occasion Chair, was additionally hit with accusations that he merely didn’t need the job, and for that motive, put scarcely any effort into vetting candidates for competence and electability. In immediately’s phrases, that will imply candidates who’re shamelessly America First and supportive of Donald John Trump. Paradoxically, if he have been making a concerted effort at that, he can be deciding on for extra Santos-like candidates, relatively than operating in the wrong way by selecting IDF fighters married to Ukrainians who may barely converse English, or bigtime Democratic donors who act and converse like buffoons in public.
In 2017, The Day by day Beast reported that nicely over a decade in the past, Republican Occasion leaders have been calling for Cox’s resignation – labeling his tenure as “pathetically ineffectual” and the State Occasion a “unhappy joke.” The report particulars how Cox pushed by way of his son, Chris Cox, to run a longshot congressional bid, who turned out, unsurprisingly, to be an ineffective candidate (the apple doesn’t fall removed from the tree). His shedding effort solely additional solidified the Democratic hegemony over the state.
The report additionally recounts Cox’s then-struggles to court docket high quality Republicans to take down Democratic bigwigs like Chuck Schumer, Kirsten Gillibrand, and Andrew Cuomo – all of whom stay family names nicely over a decade later, and two of three of whom nonetheless stay in energy, their positions as safe as ever due to the identical outdated narrative, as true immediately because it was then.
So, clearly, Cox’s newest gambit is nothing new: he not solely doesn’t know learn how to win, as confirmed by his moribund monitor document, however he actively prefers shedding – for which, to him, there’s a political and monetary upside. Cox income handsomely off the contributions that fill the coffers of his environmental firm, by and huge from Democratic or left-leaning donors, whereas retaining his comfortable job as chairman of the “managed opposition” – through which the one job requirement is to do completely nothing. (Truly, verify that, to do nothing besides lose key elections and nominate the worst candidates you possibly can presumably fathom.)
In the meantime, New York State continues down a speedy managed decline, with productive residents fleeing the state month by month, changed by third world migrants who occupy faculties, take up essential assets that ought to in any other case be used in direction of New York’s mounting homelessness disaster, and drain the financial system – shifting the prices upon the dwindling pool of middle-class taxpayers, from whom Kathy Hochul and Letitia James revenue, to pursue their self-interested political witch-hunts.
Name To Motion
New York is a racket, and Ed Cox and his minions are on the entrance and middle of it.
Readers, please take into account CALLING Ed Cox’s workplace and DEMAND that he throw his assist and assets behind true America First, Trump supporting candidates for federal, state, and native workplace – NOT imposters and frauds like Mike Sapraicone, Mazi Pilip, or any of the RINOs who at the moment signify Lengthy Island and downstate New York in Congress.
Ed Cox’s workplace quantity: (518) 462-2601, and e mail: (e mail protected).
Nassau GOP Chairman, Joe Cairo’s workplace quantity: 516-334-5800, and e mail: (e mail protected).
Suffolk GOP Chairman, Jesse Garcia’s workplace quantity: 631-320-1900, and e mail: (e mail protected).