Why It's Politically Smart To Vote For Erick Salgado!

Why It's Politically Smart To Vote For Erick Salgado
"Respected" members of our communities have impressed upon us the importance of maintaining a relationship with elected officials.  From the perspective of the administrator of a charity organization or its supporters, a stable relationship with the political establishment can be the key to successful advocacy.  However, from a community perspective, a philosophy of electing candidates based upon maintaining the relationships with our community spokesman is selling our community needs for pennies on the dollar.

The sad fact that most Jews don’t realize is that while a close personal relationship between askanim and politicians are often useful in securing “earmark” grants (otherwise known as “pork” to the secular world) for a few institutions.  On the most important issues of our time the rest of the community doesn’t benefit from the “close relationship” at all.  In fact, the continued support from askanim gives these politicians a sense of entitlement and being insulated and protected in their continued opposition to things that really would help yeshiva families, like enacting tax credits for tuition dollars (which do not violated the Blaine Amendment prohibiting government money to support private schools).

If we simply vote for a politician because he’s going to win anyway, then he’s not going to listen us, because he knows we’re going to vote for him anyway.  Why should a politician (who's main goal is to get reelected and/or advance to a higher office) make any sacrifices or risk crossing powerful anti-Torah social movements or unions, if he knows we’re going to vote for him simply because “he’s going to win anyway, or is slightly less evil than his opponent?”.

The lifeblood of a vibrant democracy depends upon the fact that the elected officials are held accountable to the public for re-election.  A politician who does not fear that he will be voted of office by his constituents will feel virtually no responsibility to respond to their needs and desires. 

Until now, our adversaries have demonstrated far more commitment to holding their elected officials accountable for supporting their ideologies that are counter to ours.  Our adversaries have demonstrated time and time again that they are willing to vote a politician out of office if he doesn’t support their agenda.  As a result, when an elected official for our communities is put under pressure to bow to their  anti-Torah measures, it takes virtually no time for him to weigh the threat of punishment from our adversaries against the promise of support that he’s received from our communities to choose the bad measure. 

The Jewish community has shown an ability to rise to the occasion to rally and prostest when things become urgent concerns (like Eretz Yisroel, or when Bloomberg wanted to get rid of the child care vouchers).  But the most important time to act should not be when the evil decrees are proposed.  We need to make our voices heard before then, at election time, to make sure our elected representatives know we mean business. A protest can only have value if the elected officials know that we are prepared to carry through on election day.

Now is the time to make our voices heard.  It’s not really Thompson, Quinn or DeBlasio that needs to hear our voices.  Whichever one who wins is not going to come back to ask our opinion once they’ve won office.  Mayor Bloomberg held a meeting with Rabbonim and askonim regarding metzizah b’peh when he was running for office.  But he had no problem reverseing course when he no longer needed something from us, he promised us the vouchers before his election and revoked them after he got our votes and was reelected.

The main act of speech is directed for the future candidates.  Elections happen every year.   Overreliance on the philosophy of choosing the “lesser of two evils” based on who is likely to win has led us to the situation where the lesser evil keeps getting more evil every election cycle.

Remember 20 years ago Christine Quinn wouldn't have even been able to run for mayor.

Every single one of the candidates except Erick Salgado has demonstrated that they lack the fortitude to stand against the political wind and defend our interests – our values, our pocketbooks and our safety – while the political trend is to do the opposite.

Bill Thompson Choose Gays Over Jews

Notice how Bill Thompson IGNORES the followup question regarding Christie's ban on repetitive therapy and goes on to the next question.  Thompson has shown he can't even answer a question regarding freedom of religion (when it conflicts with pervert "rights").  How can we trust this low life to defend it from their attacks?

I urge everyone to vote for Erick Salgado and be worthy of a kasiva ve chasima tovah!


May everyone (this means you EZRA) who will be voting for the lesbian Quinn YMS be signed into the sefer hamaves (on the yom hadin) and get all the curses in the 109 perek of tehillim (psalms)! (May your days be short and your position be taken by another. May your children by orphans and your wife a widow)

I wish everyone a kasiva vechasima tovah

All Major Mayor Candidates Are In Favor Giving Birth Control To Minors WITHOUT Their Parent's Consent

notice how Borough Park (where as of now doesn't give out condoms in Yeshivas) has one of (if not the) lowest pregnancy rates

Would you continue to distribute birth control pills and the morning-after pill in city schools? 


Bill de Blasio Public Advocate Democrat 
On the issue of whether to offer contraception in the schools, Mr. de Blasio was unequivocal, giving a simple “Yes,” without elaboration. He did not address the issue of parental consent, which is not now directly required.
 John C. Liu Comptroller Democrat 
Mr. Liu is supportive of the Bloomberg administration’s decision to distribute contraception in some city schools. Asked if he would continue it, he said “Yes,” without hedging or elaboration.
Christine C. Quinn City Council Speaker Democrat 
Ms. Quinn has made access to abortion and emergency contraception for women a signature issue, saying she wanted to make New York “as pro-choice and pro-women” as possible. In answer to this question, she said she would continue the current policy, but did not elaborate.
William C. Thompson Jr. Former Comptroller Democrat
In the debates over distributing condoms in the schools in the 1990s, Mr. Thompson, then a Brooklyn appointee to the Board of Education, was on the liberal side. He still says he has no objections to distributing birth control in schools.
Anthony D. Weiner Former Congressman Democrat
On birth control, Mr. Weiner proposed to tweak the current policy, perhaps influenced by his experience representing Queens. In the 1990s, parents of schoolchildren in that borough had been among the most vocal in the city in objecting to condom distribution, which is now the norm. He said that he would continue the policy, but that he would do a better job of informing parents that they could opt out.
John A. Catsimatidis C.E.O., Red Apple Group Republican 
Mr. Catsimatidis said he favored contraception in the schools, as long as it included a provision for “parental notification and consent.” He stayed away from the question of exactly what he meant by consent, a concept which different people interpret in different ways, and which the city and the courts have argued is fulfilled by the existing opt-out provision.
Joseph J. Lhota Former Chairman, M.T.A. Republican
Mr. Lhota said he believed parents should have a stronger hand in deciding whether their children were able to get birth control — like “any form of medication” — at school. He said birth control should not be distributed without parental “knowledge.” But he did not say he would ban it, and did not suggest changes to the policy that would ensure parents knew when their children were prescribed contraceptives.
(New York Times)

Quinn Skips Jewish Fourm For Photo-Op At Tomchei Shabbos

Are we only worth a photo-op?

Dov Hikind's Wife Supports Erick Salgado For Mayor!

Erick Salgado's Petition

Blown up

Dov Hikind endorsed pro gay "marriage", UFT endorsed candidate Bill Thompson for mayor "based" on "education".  We respectfully ask Dov to from now on listen to his wife on all political decisions.

Dov Hikind said regarding his Thompson endorsement ”The bottom line is this: I support people who I think are going to be best. I don’t look at poll numbers.”   Dov seems to have confused himself with his wife!

DeBlasio + Quinn Have NO Problem With Banning Milah, Only Saying Who's Trying To Ban It!

If your wondering how good the candidates are for the Jewish community watch their reaction to Mr Salgado at the FJCC Forum while he is saying that the attack on MBP is really an attack on Milah itself and specifically on the point that groups trying to ban Bris Milah march in the NY gay pride parade.
their immediate reaction
Bill Thompson, was listening intently (before and after the parade was mentioned) then looks like he just came up with a idea and stares at the lesbian Quinn and smirks.
Anthony Weiner, was enthusiastic and clapping at Mr Salgado's comments about people trying to ban Bris Milah, and was listening intently when he mentioned the parade, then writes something down and jots a look at Quinn and smirks.
Bill DeBlasio and John Liu, both are straight faced the entire time.
"Married" Lesbian Quinn, has a holier than though smirk on the entire time up until Mr Salgado mentions the gay pride parade, she then has a annoyed confused face until after Mr Salgado finished saying there trying to ban it all together, then she looks like her dog was shot, she then goes from biting her tongue, to redoing her hair before going back in to her usual condescending smirk.

When it was his turn it, Anthony Weiner seemed to have responded to Erick by saying "I'm a liberal by just about definition of it, but I believe that there is a liberal elitist condensation, when it come to religion in our city". (more on Anthony Weiner's Bris Milah position "is he pandering to us or the gays?")

When it was his turn it, Bill DeBlasio attacked Erick Salgado for fighting for arguably (kares) most important mitzva in torah, and DeBlasio only cared about the implied 100% true insult to the gay "community".  His attack led to heckles from the more than 90% orthodox audience, and Christine Quinn starting to lead a vibrant clap consisting of her and Liu and a few reporters.  This in turn led to booing and caused moderator Avi Schick to ask people to "hold their comments till the end".

John Liu in response to BDB said "This is a great city, where we can embrace our true diversity, whether it be the "pride" that is exciting with members of the LGBT "community", or the growing Orthodox community right here in Brooklyn and other parts of the city."

Christine Quinn YMS then proceeded to lecture the Jewish community on "tolerance" while NEVER addressing the fact that there is a movement to ban Bris Milah,  She "forgot" that the only "attack" on the gay "community" was the fact that the gay pride parade allows a group to march in their parade that wants to ban Bris Milah. she then proceeded to say she will keep Bloomberg's regulations with out ever adressing the fact that their is a move to ban Bris Milah in this country that is led by members of the said gay "community".

The shocking part is that may have not been Christine Quinn;s most egregious attack on the Jewish community in the forum which was easily over 90% Orthodox.  Christine Quinn spoke about her "wife" 3 times.  The most egregious of these was in a question about what sports team she liked she responded "when I married my "wife"

to see the corrupt story, how this video was found!

Mayoral Candidate Who Wasn't "Invited" Wins FJCC-COJO Forum

Erick Salgado Wins FJCC Forum

 After Inviting, not inviting, inviting, and not inviting, and then re inviting him only for the last few minutes of the event Erick Salgado "crashed" the forum and won it, showing that the Jewish community follows the Torah and not "askoniem".

Erick Salgado won the event by being the strongest on MBP and other religious infractions even linking MBP to the previous Bris Milah ban attempts and the FACT that gays march every single year in NY's gay "pride" parade.  He further spoke about how the Jewish community came to this country for Freedom of Religion and how that is under assault. He also spoke very strongly about defending the Yeshiva Parents from high tuitions.

Rumor has it that COJO and the FJCC are very upset that Erick Salgado attended the event and even worse gained support in the Orthodox community.

From Yeshiva World News

It’s only a straw poll, so don’t give too much thought to the results. However, based on the response to our questionnaire by a diverse group of ages and gender, the results of our straw poll, conducted Tuesday night after the FJCC mayoral forum, reflect the overall public opinion polls.

There’s one exception though. Christine Quinn, who didn’t hide the fact that she’s from the LGBT community, switched places with Erick Salgado. Mr. Salgado, whose Orthodox supporters are passionate about his candidacy, got the support of 26% while Ms. Quinn was the preferred choice by 7.4%. Former Councilman Sal Albanese didn’t pick up any support among attendees at the forum. Yet he managed to impress, good enough to be considered as the second choice by 22%.

A whopping 62 percent said they do not trust the candidates based on their promises on the campaign trail while 20% said they do trust the candidates. 18% expressed no opinion.

While the Democrats can rely on the Orthodox Jewish voters to turn out in the primaries and influence the vote, they are unlikely to get the same level of support in the general elections when faced with a Republican challenger. According to our straw poll, only 26% are committed voting for the Democratic nominee in the November election while 34% plan to vote for the Republican nominee. 40 percent were undecided.
Full results below:
Q #1: If primary elections for mayor of New York City were held today who would be your choice in the Democratic party?
Erick Salgado 26%
Anthony Weiner 18%
Bill de Blasio 15%
Bill Thompson 11%
Christine Quinn 7.4%
John Liu 4%
Undecided or NE 18.6%
Q #2: Who is your second choice?
Bill Thompson 27.5%
Sal Albanese 22%
Bill de Blasio 17%
John Liu 16.5%
Anthony Weiner 6%
Christine Quinn 5%
Erick Salgado 5%
Q #3: Do you trust the candidates based on their campaign promises?
Yes 20%
No 62%
No opinion 18%
Q #4: In the general election November 5th, would you vote for the Democratic nominate, the Republican or an Independent?
Democrat 26%
Republican 34%
Undecided 40%
(Jacob Kornbluh – YWN)

Ezra Friedlander Stands Behind Christine Quinn

Ezra Stands Behind Quinn

While non-Orthodox voters may still be up for grabs, one political consultant said that it may be too late for Anthony Weiner to win ultra-Orthodox support. Orthodox leaders and activists have already committed to candidates, particularly Bill De Blasio and Bill Thompson.

“I don’t see how he comes in and carves out his slice” among the Orthodox, said Ezra Friedlander, CEO of the Friedlander Group, a political consultancy, who backs Christine Quinn in the race. “At this late stage of the mayors race, it’s too late to solicit support when its already been pledged elsewhere.”
Few of the experts thought that Weiner’s mildly sordid scandal, in which he admitted to sending explicit photographs of himself to women he met online, would inhibit voters from backing him.
“The Orthodox community in particular is a very forgiving community,” said Friedlander. “Atonement and forgiveness is a part of our DNA.”

Read more: http://blogs.forward.com/forward-thinking/174639/mayor-anthony-weiner-it-could-happen/#ixzz2QCQlapc2