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Spring Semester 2009 Thank you for a Great Spring Semester, and Congratulations to our newly elected Executive Board. Past Events Wednesday, December 10th, 2008 SOLD OUT!!!!!! Wednesday March 25
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The NYU College Republicans are deeply appreciative of all those who have been kind enough to agree to speak at one or more of our meetings. Below, you will find a brief biography of those who are scheduled to appear, or have done so already, at one of your meetings this semester. Senator Martin J. Golden (R,C) was elected to represent Brooklyn's 22nd Senate District in 2002 and was re-elected in 2004 and 2006. The 22nd State Senate District includes the neighborhoods of Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights, Bensonhurst, Marine Park, Gerritsen Beach, Gravesend and parts of Sheepshead Bay, Borough Park and Midwood. During his first two terms in the State Legislature, Senator Marty Golden has quickly established himself as one of the most influential lawmakers in the City and State of New York. Senator Golden has authored over 75 laws most notably in the areas of public safety, tax cuts, economic development, and senior citizen issues. Marty Golden’s distinguished career as a New York City Police Officer, provided him with the knowledge and experience to make our streets safer. Senator Marty Golden worked to strengthen the Megan’s Law sex offender registry and expand the DNA databank to include all persons convicted of a felony and certain misdemeanors. In December 2005, Senator Golden sponsored the laws to increase penalties against gun-runners and those that injure or kill police officers. In 2006, Senator Golden wrote a tough law that mandates prison for the possession of a single loaded illegal firearm. Senator Golden’s bills were a priority of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Working with a diverse group of parents, educators, clergy and school choice advocates, Senator Golden delivered a $330 child tax credit for public, private and parochial school students. Senator Golden’s diligent efforts secured $11.2 billion in funding to improve New York City Public Schools including a new high school in Sunset Park and many other classrooms improvements to ensure that our students receive a sound basic education. As one of eight children born to Irish immigrants, Marty Golden knows that working families need tax breaks to help make ends meet. Senator Golden delivered the laws that eliminated the state sales tax on clothing and footwear; secured a $400 property tax cut for New York City residents; and eliminated the personal income tax marriage penalty. As Chairman of the Senate Aging Committee, Senator Golden is credited by nationally recognized advocacy groups for championing the rights of senior citizens through the Assisted Living Law of 2004. Under his leadership, a number of significant bills affecting older Americans have been enacted, including a new Elderlaw; the Senior Bill of Rights; Long Term Care Reform, internet posting of retail prescription drug prices and a single EPIC/Medicare prescription drug card. Senator Golden wrote the law that raised SCRIE income eligibility limits for seniors and the disabled. Yet, what distinguishes Marty Golden's career in public service is his emphasis on community service and ability to bring back funding for important community programs including health care, education, transportation, law enforcement and senior citizen programs. Senator Marty Golden sponsors popular neighborhood events like senior citizen days, Halloween walks, Christmas tree lightings, Menorah lightings, Easter egg hunts, summer concerts in the park, summer movie nights, women’s history month, Senator for the day, Asian Lunar New Year, environmental clean ups, district office open house, school trips to Albany, mammograms, prostate screenings, and flu shots for senior citizens. From 1998 through 2002, Marty Golden represented the 43rd Councilmanic District in the New York City Council. As a member of the Council, Marty served on the Committees on Finance, Parks and Recreation, Public Safety and State and Federal Legislation, as well as on the Select Subcommittees on Senior Citizen Centers and the Waterfront. In the days immediately after 9/11, Councilman Golden's office coordinated the shipment of more than 200 truckloads of food, clothing, and materials to the volunteers working at "Ground Zero" and helped to establish the first Community Emergency Response Team (CERT 1 NYC) in New York State. Marty Golden is a former New York City Police Officer who received numerous awards during his ten years with the Police Department. Marty was forced to retire in 1983, after suffering a serious injury while making a narcotics arrest. Marty Golden attended St. Patrick's and Our Lady of Angels Grammar Schools, New York School of Printing, and John Jay College. He is a graduate of St. John’s University. Marty and his wife, Colleen, have two school-age children, Michael and P.J. Standing Committee Assignments 2007: Aging (Chair); Senate Majority Task Force on Critical Choices (Chair); Banks; Codes; Crime Victims, Crime & Corrections; Education; Insurance; Investigations and Government Operations; Veterans, Homeland Security and Military Affairs.
Kellyanne Elizabeth Conway is CEO and President of the polling company™, inc. a privately-held, woman-owned corporation founded in 1995. The firm is headquartered in Washington, DC and maintains an office in New York City. Mrs. Conway is one of the most quoted and noted pollsters on the national scene. Among her accomplishments, she was recognized as the most accurate predictor of the 2004 elections and received The Washington Post’s “Crystal Ball” award and co-author of WHAT WOMEN REALLY WANT: How American Women Are Quietly Erasing Political, Racial, Class, and Religious Lines to Change the Way We Live (Free Press, 2005). The book has met with critical acclaim for its ability to distill complex data into memorable message points, acronyms, and phrases. Throughout her 19-year qualitative and quantitative research career, Kellyanne has provided primary research and advice for clients in 46 of the 50 states and has directed hundreds of demographic and attitudinal survey projects for statewide and congressional political races, trade associations, and Fortune 100 companies. A professionally trained moderator, Kellyanne has personally directed more than 300 focus groups and other qualitative discussions. Clients have included Lifetime Television, The Heritage Foundation, Major League Baseball, The Federalist Society, Coalition of Community Pharmacists Association, the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, Mass Connections, American Express, ABC News, and the U.S. Department of Labor. A “fully-recovered” attorney, Kellyanne is admitted to practice law in four jurisdictions (Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and the District of Columbia). She has practiced law, clerked for a judge in Washington, DC and for four years, was an adjunct professor at George Washington University Law Center. Kellyanne is a magna cum laude graduate of Trinity College, Washington, D.C., where she earned a B.A. in Political Science, studied at Oxford University, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She holds a law degree, with honors, from George Washington University Law Center. Kellyanne has provided commentary on over 1,000 television shows on ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, CNBC, MSNBC, HBO, Comedy Central, MTV and the Fox News Channel, and countless radio shows and print stories. Kellyanne has been profiled in over a dozen magazines, newspapers, and television programs. Her polling data and op-eds have been published by The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The New York Post, The Washington Times, USA Today, National Review, Human Events, Investors’ Business Daily, and Campaigns and Elections. She is the Editor and Publisher of WomanTrends, a quarterly publication that provides the latest news on a multitude of current and prospective lifestyle, financial, health, ethnic, work, entertainment, green, technological, and generational trends, which are influencing and influenced by consumer attitudes and behaviors. WomanTrend, a division of the polling company, inc., analyzes over 50 national and international publications and compiles the findings into WomanTrends. She is a board member of the National Journalism Center, the National Women’s History Museum, and Men Against Breast Cancer and past member of the University of San Francisco School of Business Advisory Council. Mrs. Conway retains memberships in the American Association of Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) and the Qualitative Research Consultants Association (QRCA). Kellyanne (formerly “Fitzpatrick”) is a native of South Jersey. She is married to George T. Conway III. They reside in New Jersey with their three children. Professor Sam Abrams - Professor Abrams is currently a PhD candidate in the Department of Government at Harvard University and a fellow with NYU's Hamilton Center for Political Economy. His current research fields include social policy, inequality, international political economy, and comparative and American politics. Prof. Abrams coauthored “Culture War? The Myth of a Polarized America”, which has become a staple in undergraduate political science curricula and has been heavily debated in both academic and political circles. His dissertation project, “Where Everyone Knows Your Name”, asks a simple question: Why do some people vote, while others do not? The dissertation offers a rational choice inspired theory of political participation and links political activities (i.e. voting, protest, discussion, etc.) to one’s immediate socio-political environment by looking at one’s community and embedded reputation in that space. He is also currently working on understanding Jewish voting patterns in the United States and looking at how partisan support among American Jews is changing. Finally, while Barack Obama often returned to Harvard University to seek political wisdom from the staff there, neither Prof. Abrams nor Harvard University had an official role in advising the Obama campaign. Margaret Hoover is a television and radio commentator on issues ranging from American politics to pop-culture. A Fox News Contributor, she is a regular on Bill O’Reilly’s top-rated show, The Factor. Ms. Hoover has co-hosted The View on ABC, and appeared as a guest on NBC’s The Today Show, CNN’s Larry King Live, CBS’s The Early Show as well as many other Fox News and Fox Business programs. In on-air appearances and speeches, she has become known as an advocate for modernizing the Republican Party while being true to its historic principles of individual freedom, fiscal responsibility and national security. Ms. Hoover held a White House appointment in the Bush Administration where she served as the Associate Director in the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs. A veteran of two Presidential efforts, Ms. Hoover most recently worked with Rudy Giuliani’s Presidential Exploratory Committee. Other political experience includes working on President Bush’s re-election campaign, as senior advisor to the Deputy Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, and deputy press secretary for Florida Congressman Mario Diaz-Balart on Capitol Hill. Ms. Hoover is a member of the Board of Overseers for the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University and serves on the board of the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library Association. Raised in Colorado, Ms. Hoover has lived and worked in Taiwan, Bolivia, Mexico and China. She speaks fluent Spanish and is a continuing student of Mandarin Chinese. She received a Bachelors of Arts degree in Spanish Language Literature with a minor in Political Science from Bryn Mawr College. Pictures can be found on our Pictures Page
John G. Chromczak is a medical technologist at the New York University Medical Center/Bellevue. John graduated from SUNY-Potsdam with a degree in Biology and Music Performance. An accomplished cellist, John performed with the Utica Symphony Orchestra from 1986-2002. He is a member of the Brooklyn Young Republicans, the New York County Young Republicans, and the Log Cabin Republicans. Max Schulz is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute's Center for Energy Policy and the Environment. His work focuses on the practical application of free-market principles in energy debates at the international, federal, and state levels, with a particular examination of the intersection of energy, the economy, and the environment. Prior to joining the Manhattan Institute, Mr. Schulz served as Senior Policy Advisor and Director of Speechwriting for United States secretaries of energy Samuel Bodman and Spencer Abraham. At the Department of Energy, Mr. Schulz was involved in the rollout of President George W. Bush's National Energy Policy in 2001. In four and a half years at the DOE, he worked extensively on issues ranging from energy supply and demand to nuclear security and nonproliferation. In 2004, he was a member of the United States delegation to the International Atomic Energy Agency's 47th General Conference in Vienna. Mr. Schulz had earlier served as editorial director at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, as a book editor at Regnery Publishing, as an advisor to Steve Forbes's 1996 presidential campaign, and as managing editor of Forbes MediaCritic magazine. He received his BA in history from Vanderbilt University. Mr. Schulz lives in Washington with his wife and two sons. http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/schulz.htm Brett Joshpe graduated with distinction in all subjects from Cornell University in 2002, where he majored in government. He received his JD from Harvard Law School in 2005. Mr. Joshpe currently provides general corporate and real estate advice. Prior to joining Wrobel & Schatz LLP, Mr. Joshpe worked at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, where his practice focused on wide range of corporate matters, including mergers and acquisitions, private equity, securities and real estate. Mr. Joshpe worked on several high profile real estate transactions, including representation of Istithmar in the purchase of 280 Park Avenue and the old Knickerbocker Hotel. Mr. Joshpe also owns businesses in the real estate and insurance industries. Mr. Josphe is a co-author with S.E. Cupp of the provocative new book Why You're Wrong About the Right, published by Simon & Schuster, Threshold Editions, described in greater detail at the book website and available on Amazon here. The book seeks to identify and refute the many myths and stereotypes that surround Republicans and conservatives. It has been described as probing and hilarious, and features many notable contributors, including a foreword by Tucker Carlson (who provided a forward), George Will, Jonah Goldberg, Byron York, Laura Ingraham, Newt Gingrich, David Horowitz, Shelby Steele, Tony Stewart, Al Leiter, and Curt Schilling. (It should go without saying that the firm, as a firm, does not take a position on political questions). S.E. Cupp was a classically trained dancer and danced for Ellicott City Ballet, Washington Ballet and Boston Ballet for a period of 10 years. After high school, she studied art history at Cornell University and worked for her college paper, the Cornell Daily Sun, as the Arts & Entertainment editor. During college, she worked for the Vose Galleries in Boston, the Whistler Museum, and the Johnson Museum as an intern. She graduated a year early and worked for short periods at an online magazine and a PR company. In 2002, she was hired by the New York Times to write and edit for the Index Department. She is currently pursuing a Masters degree at NYU in religious studies, and plans to write about American culture, including politics, sports and religion, in the future. Stuart Gottlieb is a lecturer in the Department of International and Public Affairs, where he teaches courses on American foreign policy and terrorism. In addition, he is a senior partner of Prides Crossing Executive Communication, LLC, a speechwriting and communications consulting firm based in New York City. Mr. Gottlieb worked for nearly five years in the United States Senate, first as senior foreign policy advisor to Senator Charles E. Schumer of New York, and subsequently as policy advisor and chief speechwriter for Senator Christopher J. Dodd of Connecticut. He has also worked on several political campaigns, including New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani's reelection campaign in 1997. Mr. Gottlieb holds a BA in political science and journalism from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and two MA degrees and a PhD in international relations from Columbia University. He has held prior teaching positions at Brown University and Yale University.
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