Queens Politics & Government - Elections Historical Reports Archive QNS NYC

June 9, 2026 / Queens Politics & Government NYC / Queens Political News NYC / Queens Buzz NYC.

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Gonzales Rojas & A Queens Tale: How the Rich get Richer

Did Billionaire Cohen Place Bet on JGR - or a Buy an NYS Senate Seat?

Tens of Thousands in Cohen-Related Donations Flood Gonzales Rojas' Campaign in the Final Stretch of the Campaign, Followed by a Mysterious $850,000 PAC Donation

June 20, 2026 / Queens Politics & Government / Queens News NYC / NYS Election 2026 NYC / Queens Buzz NYC / News Analysis & Opinion.

The Back Drop is an Out-of-Control System, Facilitated by the Supreme Court's Failed Decision, which Enables Billionaire Purchases of the Electorate, via Disinformative TV News Ads & a Media that No Longer Serves the Public

All too slowly, voters are waking up, to how their representatives, and thus government, are being purchased right in front of their eyes.

The biggest part of the problem, I have decided, is the corrupt billionaire-owned, network TV News, which is now controlled by about six billionaires, who have little competition in the TV News space. How this happened, beginning circa the 1980's, when billionaire Rupert Murdoch of Fox News started purchasing mass media outlets on our shores, is another story, for which there's not enough time between now and election day, Tuesday, June 23, 2026.

So for the moment, let's focus in on something we can take some positive action upon. And that is to vote for those candidates who will represent us when making decisions in Albany or Washington, D.C. One of the most important of these races, has been laid before the people of NYS Senate District 13, where NYS Senator Jessica Ramos is fighting to keep her seat.

Billionaire Steve Cohen, of SAC Capital Cheating Inc, Applies for Casino License

NYS Senator Jessica Ramos is fighting to keep her seat because she was about the only Queens government official who fought to stop billionaire Steve Cohen and affiliates from siezing control of Flushing Meadows Corona Parkland from the taxpaying public, to build a casino. Steve Cohen founded SAC Capital which was charged with huge insider trading violations, which they settled to $1.8 BILLION in fines and essentially agreed to stop trading for the public. Cohen bought the Mets and within a couple of years the Mets were caught cheating multiple times too. The cheating seemed to conveniently go on hiatus, when Cohen applied for an NYS casino license.

Why is Ramos Fighting to Keep Her Seat?

NYS Assemblymember Gonzales Rojas, spoke out against the casino at first, but then did somewhere between little to stop it. Within the past couple weeks Gonzales Rojas admitted in one of the debates, that she eventually helped enable Cohen affiliated entities to acquire the license, telling us that she thought that that's what her constituents wanted.

NYS Senator Jessica Ramos wouldn't sponsor what appears to essentially be the transfer of public to private control of the public parkland [aka the legalized grift], so NYS Senator John Liu did. Apparently billionaire Steve Cohen doesn't like for government officials to stand up to him, so he's been pouring literally tens of thousands in cash into Gonzales Rojas' campaign. And in a report by NYS Focus, he appears to also be the money behind a super PAC, which has been funded to the tune of $850,000 to buy TV attack ads against Ramos.

Uncomfortable Situation - Why Ramos' Colleagues Have Abandoned her

Many of the same government officials who did not oppose billionaire Cohen's efforts, to take control of the NYS District 13 voters' public parkland, decided to endorse Gonzales Rojas. They claimed it was because Ramos supported Cuomo, who was backed by billionaires, in the NYC Mayoral Race. But that claim has a very hollow ring to it - especially when one considers that billionaire Cohen and affiliates have donated so much to Gonzales Rojas' campaign that he has essentially single handedly funded her.

I suspect the real reason for the turnabout by the local government officials is because if Ramos manages to win again - many of these government officials, who are also funded by big money - won't easily be able to rest easy and keep up pretenses that they're representing the voters, instead of representing the wealthy interests that fund their campaigns.

Identity Politics Fail Miserably. Voters Allow Themselves to be Manipulated when Identity Group Outweighs the Other Important Facts

Over time I have increasingly become frustrated with identity politics, which seems to play an outsized role in our current electoral politics. Billionaires aren't stupid. So they see how large swaths of the electorate will gravitate toward a candidate based on identity politics. People are electing candidates, sometimes based entirely on their identity group affiliation - be it African American, Hispanic American, women, LGBTQ, trans, religion, culture and so forth. The problem with voting decisions based upon identity group affiliation, is that too often voters overlook the more important considerations of a candidate, meaning who are they and what will they do after they're elected.

Billionaires Use Identity Politics to Elect 'False Positive' Surrogates

According to Conceptually.org, " ...  a false positive representative is someone incorrectly flagged as meeting a criterion when they do not actually meet it ...". Clarence Thomas was the first of such government officials that I found to be a false positive. While he looks like he's an African American, he behaves like a white republican Ronald Reagan. I kind of found former Queens Democratic Party Chairman Joe Crowley to be a false positive Irish American congressman, in that he did not appear to me to be working for the interests of the white working class in the Queens neighborhoods he served. And I found Eric Adams to be a false positive working class Mayor, as he worked so very hard for the billionaire real estate developers, and did little to nothing meaningful for the rank and file New Yorkers.

Jessica Gonzales Rojas has a partner and a son, and presents herself as a member of the working class - ala Eric Adams - and as an LGBTQ - like NYC Councilmember Eric Bottcher. The problem is that Gonzales Rojas - like Adams and Bottcher - is apparently more focused on looking out for her campaign funders and PAC supporters than the people who don't do their homework on her and give her their vote.

Be a Patriot, Do Your Homework, Pay Attention to the Money, Ignore the Distractions & Disinformation on TV News & Ads, and Discuss the Facts with Your Family & Friends - Especially the Billionaire TV-Dependent Elderly

I'm going to leave you with a link to the NYS Focus story referenced above, about a mystery donor injecting $850,000 into a Political Action Committee aka PAC supporting Jessica Gonzales Rojas NYS Senate campaign in the last few weeks of the campaign.

https://nysfocus.com/2026/06/18/jessica-ramos-primary-challenger-850k-donation

Also, here are a few factoids I discovered while looking into Jessica Gonzales Rojas' campaign funding, before I found the NY Focus report that supported my hunch. The hunch that while billionaire Steve Cohen, may not be breaking laws, but he's definitely rigging the electoral process, like the company he founded, SAC Capital, appears to have cheated on insider trading, and how the Mets appeared to start cheating after he acquired them [the cheating appeared to go on hiatus as he was applying for a casino license], and coming soon to what is likely to be a casino built expressly for gambling-addicted suckers, which will wreck the lives and break the homes of many hardworking Queens residents.

Sneaky Steve Cohen Uses Multiple Surrogates to Funnel Cash to Gonzales Rojas' Campaign

I have a bit more to add, which I'll post later tonite.

https://www.transparencyusa.org/ny/candidate/jessica-gonzalez-rojas

https://www.bizprofile.net/ny/brooklyn/thc-special-projects-llc

Billionaire TV - Distracting Elderly Audiences of Voters & Distorting the News

Pay attention to the fact that the billionaire TV News completely ignores this very important electoral related story. The billionaire press is probably the single biggest flaw in the system right now. Voters need to wake up to the fact that TV News is controlled by the billionaires and that they are using TV News and the ads as privately owned propaganda machines.

After voters wake up, they have to get started on the journey to finding reliable, independent sources so they can become better informed, participating members of our democracy. Please talk to and help the elderly, because the polls show a huge divergence of perspectives between the young who get their information from the web, and the old who still rely on TV News. The reason for that disconnect is that the old are believing what they see on TV News as if Walter Cronkite was still reporting, and he retired in 1981 and he died in 2009, and TV News has gone progressively downhill ever since.