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At the University of California, Berkeley, the hippie heyday is long past. For more than a year now, a group of activists has been living in a grove of trees in protest of a planned fitness center expansion, despite the fact that UCB is going to plant three trees for every tree it takes down. But unlike the takeover of People’s Park in the 60s, this protest has minimal student involvement and support. Hopefully, a county judge will soon rule to have the activists removed from the trees. The Economist... Read More→

Of course, the morals police are all up in arms about the CA ruling, but at least one GOP group can celebrate. Here is the Log Cabin press release on the CA ruling: For Immediate Release May 15, 2008 Log Cabin Republicans Applaud California Supreme Court’s Decision on Marriage Equality (Washington, DC) – Log Cabin Republicans applaud today’s historic ruling by the Supreme Court of California. In a 4-3 decision, the Court ruled that loving, committed gay and lesbian... Read More→

THE NEW YORK YOUNG REPUBLICAN CLUB, INC. NY STATE SENATE CANDIDATE JOHN CHROMCZAK AT APRIL GENERAL MEETING New York, NY – The New York Young Republican Club will hold our April monthly meeting on Thursday, April 17, 2008. The featured speaker will be John G. Chromczak, candidate for the New York State Senate, 25th district. Club elections will also be held. Mr. Chromczak was born in upstate New York, attended the State University of New York at Potsdam and now works at New York University... Read More→

JOHN G. CHROMCZAK ANNOUNCES CANDIDACY FOR 25TH STATE SENATE DISTRICTAnnouncements scheduled for Wednesday, April 9th in Brooklyn and Manhattan New York, NY, April 8, 2008 – Downtown Manhattan resident and local medical technologist, John G. Chromczak, will be announcing his Republican candidacy for the 25th district state Senate seat at 11:00 am at Borough Hall in Brooklyn and at noon on the steps of City Hall in Manhattan. John will be making his announcement alongside Jason Weingartner, Executive... Read More→

Absolut Vodka has redrawn the US-Mexico border in an ad running in Mexico. Absolut defended the ad on the corporate blog:“Obviously, this ad was run in Mexico, and not the US — that ad might have been very different.” A company that is dialed into Web 2.0 enough to have a blog should realize that you can’t place an ad in one country that may be offensive to another and not expect that ad to come back to haunt you. Seriously, did they think that Mexico doesn’t have internet access or... Read More→

The NY Post editorial page calls for an end to the practice of member items following the revelation that Quinn was funneling ‘rainy day’ money to fictitious charity groups. If there is a strong case for having a slush fund for emergencies, why not lobby harder for it, bring it to the press, get public opinion on your side? If they had to hide it, they clearly didn’t have a strong enough case to do it. Let’s hope that Ted Stevens doesn’t figure out a way to transfer this practice over... Read More→

Heidi Montag of The Hills has officially endorsed McCain. Is this a plot by the Young Democrats to destroy our credibility?  Read More →

THE NEW YORK YOUNG REPUBLICAN CLUB, INC. HOSTS AMERICAN SPECTATOR PUBLISHER ALFRED REGNERYAT MARCH GENERAL MEETING New York, NY – The New York Young Republican Club will hold our March monthly meeting on Thursday, March 20, 2008. American Spectator publisher and author, Alfred Regnery, will speak about his new book: Upstream: The Ascendance of American Conservatism. Lee Zeldin, candidate for the first congressional district (Suffolk County), will also address the club. In his new book, Mr.... Read More→

For Immediate Release March 10, 2008Contact: Jen Saunders, Public Relations ChairE-mail: pr@nyyrc.com New York Young Republicans Call for Immediate Spitzer Resignation New York, NY – The New York Young Republican Club, Inc. (NYYRC) today called on Governor Eliot Spitzer to resign following the revelation of his involvement with a prostitution ring.NYYRC President Lynn Krogh stated: “Governor Spitzer came into office saying that he was going to be making big changes from ‘Day One’... Read More→