Romney camp [Guy Molinari] is taking nothing for granted on Staten Island or in NY [they can't]

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Mitt Romney may be the presumptive GOP nominee against Democratic President Barack Obama, but Republican primaries will still be held in New York and elsewhere tomorrow.

Guy Molinari, Romney's state campaign director, said the Romney forces are taking nothing for granted, looking to battle Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich across the Empire State, where 95 delegates are at stake.

"We have to redouble our efforts and go for a clean sweep," said Molinari. "We want to win every congressional district."

Even though Molinari said informal tracking shows Romney is "very strong" in the 11th Congressional District, there are very vocal and committed supporters of Ron Paul across the borough.

"Who's going to come out to vote?" he said. "We've had our run-ins with the Paul supporters. With a low turnout, somebody could steal the district."

Danny Panzella, vice chair of the Island Libertarian Party, said there will be Paul supporters outside some of the larger polling places on the Island.

But he acknowledged that mainstream Republicans here will likely vote for Romney.

Elsewhere, Molinari said "that crazy man" Carl Paladino, the former and controversial GOP gubernatorial candidate, is stumping hard for Gingrich in Paladino's hometown of Buffalo.

And Santorum, he said, has shown strength in Western New York and in Nassau and Suffolk on Long Island.

Molinari said he will urge voters to the polls when he speaks tonight at the borough GOP's annual Lincoln Day dinner.

Molinari is expecting very light turnout tomorrow, and said that it's unlikely that Romney will devote a lot of resources to blue New York in the fall.

"I doubt they will want to play in New York," he said. "It's getting more and more Democratic. It's tough."

He said a "huge" GOP turnout tomorrow may change some minds inside the Romney campaign, "but we know that's not going to happen."

Santorum has suspended his campaign, and Molinari reiterated that it's time for Gingrich and Paul to bow out as well.

"There's no reason for them to remain," he said. "It's impossible for them to win. They are only helping Obama."

Also voting tomorrow are Connecticut, Delaware, Rhode Island and Pennsylvania, where Santorum was U.S. senator.

...............”In addition to New York, Republican primary voters will go to the polls Tuesday in Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Delaware – making it a Super Tuesday for the Northeast.

In Onondaga County, all 175 regular polling stations will be open. Helen Kiggins, the county’s Republican election commissioner, emphasized that only registered Republicans will be allowed to vote.

Despite the expected light turnout, the presidential primary will cost Onondaga County about $45,000 to mobilize its staff, set up voting machines and tabulate the results, Kiggins said.

With a second federal primary scheduled June 26 for U.S. House and Senate seats, Kiggins said it will exhaust the money Onondaga County has budgeted for primary elections this year.

If needed, a third primary — for state and local races — would be held Sept. 11. “We’re pretty worried about September and what that will do to our budget,” Kiggins said.

All told, more than 160,000 Republicans in Central New York are eligible to vote in the primary, according to state Board of Elections statistics. In Onondaga County there are 91,265; Oswego, 35,543; Cayuga, 18,580; and Madison, 17,288.

Unlike previous years for Republicans, New York will not be a winner-take-all state in the presidential primary. Nor will it matter who wins a particular county. Instead, two delegates will be awarded to the winner in each of New York’s 29 congressional districts. The remaining delegates will be designated through an at-large system.

This will be the last election for the existing 29 congressional districts in New York. Beginning with the June federal primary, the state will be reapportioned into 27 congressional districts. “

http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2012/04/polls_open_tuesday_for_new_yor.html

Susan and Guy Molinari have a vendetta against Speaker Newt Gingrich. It would be sweet to see their hard fight against the last conservative standing falter, putting doubts in voters’ minds going forward with the still active and running national GOP primary — that Mitt is NOT locked up as our Republican nominee.

Susan's husband was dating/linked to Brit Hume's son and Gingrich was falsely accused of leaking the details ... it was likely Joe Scarborough

DC .. what a great place

Please help as many New Yorkers as possible to realize what is at stake in this primary. Please forward this to as many people as you can, because anybody who suffered personally because of 9-11 should think long and hard about these things (make sure to read all the way to the end):

Mitt Romney supports government-coerced abortion. He personally has made the decision to force people to provide abortions even though they believe it to be murder.

Yes, he vetoed Romneycare because it mandated abortion insurance coverage, but in Dec 2005 after his veto was overridden and the Boston Globe printed an article noting that Catholic hospitals would be exempt from providing abortions to rape victims, Romney ordered the Dept of Public Health to force Catholic hospitals to provide abortions. He said his legal counsel had given him a “sounder view” of what Romneycare meant – that this law alone, of all the abortion laws passed in the 30 years since the 1975 conscience law had exempted religious institutions from having to perform abortions against their religious beliefs, nullified the conscience law even though a nullification clause had specifically been rejected by the MA legislature. Romney went further and said he personally believed it was the “right thing” for Catholic hospitals to commit what they believe to be murder.

Since that time, the regulations now say that the abortifacient morning-after pill must be offered by Catholic hospitals regardless of whether rape is even claimed. In other words, any woman can go to the emergency room of any Catholic hospital in MA and force the staff there to give her an abortion pill, no questions allowed to be asked.

This isn’t about rape and it isn’t about abortion. There are plenty of secular hospitals that will provide the morning-after pill. This is about forcing every Catholic in this country who puts a dollar bill in the collection plate to commune at the altar of government-established religion that includes abortion. Religious liberty exists no more.

Welcome to China right here in America.

Romney defends Romneycare’s coerced abortions by pointing out that states are not bound by the US Constitution. First Amendment guarantees of religious liberty don’t apply to states. States are free to establish religion and violate religious liberty, as Romney has done in MA.

The chief way that Islamists plan to establish sharia in free countries is by establishing precedents at the more local levels and then using that precedent to force the whole country into sharia – Islam forced onto everyone. Romney’s claims would allow states to establish sharia.

Vote for Newt Gingrich in the Republican Presidential primary.

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