Steven Vasquez Steven Vasquez Interim State Coordinator Location: Ballston Lake, NY Last login: 03/10/10 RSS feed
Steven is a leader for the Campaign for Liberty in the NY Capital District along with a tireless group of Ron Paul supporters. Steven ran in 2008 for Congress in the NY 21st District where he received 30% of the vote, which increased the 7% we campaigned during Ron Paul's Presidential primaries. The Capital District group has worked non-stop since forming in May 2007, and we continue to meet every week since then (we never missed a week). This group was involved in major canvassing, phone banking, grassroot funded TV/Radio/Newspaper ads, rallies, Congressional calling campaigns, and we are currently working on opposing the bail-outs and Real-ID in NY.
Well a New Year is upon us, leaving behind what I called the Year of Fear. Between Bailout/Stimulus or Economic Doomsday; Cap & Trade or Florida is underwater in a decade; Swine Flu Vaccine or death of millions; Universal Health Care this year or millions will suffer; Patriot Act or the Terrorists will win; Invade <Insert Third World Sovereign Nation Here> or they will attack us here; we all suffered through the normal fear mongering used to force the deterioration of freedoms and natural rights upon the American people. But thanks to the hard work and awakening by grassroot groups such as yourself in the Campaign for Liberty, the Tea Party groups, and the 9/12 groups, we all created road bumps for the statists that slowed down their desperate agenda away from the US Constitution and brought awareness to a growing portion of the American free people. As stated in the last newsletter, New York was in the forefront of much of the liberty movements, with many of the Health Care Town Halls protests originating here, as well as massive Tea Parties, and our victory to stop mandatory flu vaccines on NY health care workers.
Now in 2010, we will turn it around upon the statist insiders, by changing the political landscape through the movement for State & People Rights, State Nullification of unconstitutional Federal Mandates (Real-ID/PASS Act, Health Care, Gun Control), Transparency and Audits of the Federal Reserve and Government Agencies, Introduction of Constitutional Competing Currencies, Protection of Individual Civil Liberties, and of course the 2010 election cycle where dozens of liberty candidates across the country will be campaigning for federal, state, and local positions. We will not accomplish everything in 2010, but the seeds of 2008 and 2009 will start to blossom this year, and we all have to do our niche to grow deep roots for our trees of liberty.
Nationwide, we will of course continue to fight some of the big battles such as our proactive Audit the Federal Reserve movement, Health Care Freedom, and other attacks on our liberty as they come our way. Here in New York, we need to concentrate on a few objectives, and not take on all of them, to wisely use our resources to be successful and win some battles. We have a poll below to get your prioritization on the top 1 or 2 major statewide projects to work on in 2010. Included is legislation stop Real-ID, Carry-Conceal, and my favorite pet project, a tri-annual Congressional Report Card for all representatives to hold them accountable for violating the law of the land, the Constitution.
Poll: What should we focus on NY statewide for 2010?
Posted by Steven Vasquez on 04/30/09 Last updated 05/01/09
On April 20th, Dr. Katherine Albrecht, best-selling author of Spychips and GCN Radio Talk Show host, came to Albany, NY to speak to over 500 people(completely sold out event) at a John Birch Society Talk. Earlier that day, I sat down with Dr. Albrecht to discuss RFID, Real-ID, National ID Cards, Enhanced Driver's License, Privacy, and the Constitution. We plan to use this video as part of our ongoing lobbying to stop the implementation of REAL-ID in the NYS legislation and the general education to the public of this intrusion of our liberties and freedom.
Albany, NY - Oct 23, 2009. NYS State Health Commisioner Dr. Richard Daines has suspended the controversial mandatory influenza immunization requirement for New York health care workers, citing a shortage of vaccine supplies as the main reason. The halt in the regulation also comes a day after popular upstate NY WGY radio personality Al Roney exposed the connection of Linda Daines, Commissioner Daines's wife, as a manager of private client services of Wall Street finance firm Goldman Sachs. Goldman Sachs was the largest shareholder and brokered a 2007 $15 billion sale of the vaccine giant MedImmune. Roney called upon his listeners to contact NY State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo to open an investigation of a potential conflict of interest between the mandatory vaccine regulation for over 500,000 NY healthcare workers and potential profit for Goldman Sachs.
"It is absolutely a legitimate question for the NY Attorney General to consider whether Commissioner Daines should have recuse himself on this decision, considering the possible conflict of interest and the massive profits to be generated by Goldman Sachs with such a decision, whether the regulation was done for the best intentions or not" said WGY's Al Roney.
Controversy arose with the August announcement of the mandatory vaccine immunization for all NYS health care workers, the only state forcing such regulations. Rallies across the state were held by nurses against the regulation, and unions such as PEF and the NYCLU publicly renounced the decision. Two pending lawsuits challenging the authority of the Commissioner will continue to be held in court next week, with NY Supreme Court Justice McNamara imposing a temporary injunction against the mandatory regulation last week.
Posted by Steven Vasquez on 09/16/09 Last updated 09/16/09
Here is a great Wall Street Journal Article on our Audit the Fed actions. Kudos to CFL Member Isaiah Matos for this great coverage:
At the core of a congressional push to audit the Federal Reserve are activists with a larger purpose: to abolish the central bank.
Thousands of Americans are joining protests and lobbying their lawmakers in pursuit of the ultimate goal of replacing the Fed with a money system backed by gold or other commodities.
A movement to abolish the Fed was largely inspired by Rep. Ron Paul, left, addressing an audience about a health-care overhaul on Aug. 12, 2009.
Largely inspired by Rep. Ron Paul, the Texas Republican whose latest book, "End the Fed," will be released Wednesday, the movement draws its strength from people who want a sharp shift away from government dependency and toward a truly free-market economy.
Among the activists backing the cause is Isaiah Matos, the superintendent of a luxury high-rise building in New York City. Mr. Matos was an antiwar protester earlier this decade before he became a libertarian. Through neighborhood groups in Queens organized using Meetup.com, Mr. Matos met other Ron Paul backers who shared his distrust for the central bank and a currency backed only by a government's promise.
"I believe in a commodity-backed currency," said Mr. Matos, 30 years old. "In college, I didn't understand how we could move from gold to paper."
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—Thomas Jefferson
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