News Release

For Immediate Release:

May 19, 2013

Community Comes Out for Republican District Leader Candidates in the 46^th Assembly District

Candidates Lucretia Regina-Potter and Marcus A. Nussbaum

Praised by Community Leaders

District Leader candidates Lucretia Regina-Potter and Marcus A. Nussbaum, running in the 46^th Assembly District, were praised by community leaders at an event Thursday evening in a local Brighton Beach Restaurant.

Supporters cheered as former Brooklyn Republican Assemblyman Arnaldo A. Ferraro highlighted the community experience and integrity of the Regina-Potter/Nussbaum team, with many Brooklyn Republican representatives from several organizations and activists in attendance supporting them.

Marcus Aurelius Nussbaum, the son and grandson of Eastern European immigrants is also a military veteran with a Bronze Star Medal for saving lives during the 2003 Iraq War. He is now a practicing attorney with the skills and background to serve our community. Marcus is involved in various community organizations and public service non-profits including the Holocaust Memorial Committee and Bay People Inc., both located in Sheepshead Bay, the International B’nai Zion Foundation, and the Russian American Chamber of Commerce. Nussbaum provides legal representation for these organizations on a pro bono basis. He has also shown his support for various associations of World War II Veterans.

“I am a public servant at heart…this is the reason that I decided to join the military and serve my country. I believe that it is my duty to use my skills and abilities to help those who cannot help themselves, and it is my goal to make tangible improvements in the quality of life for the members of our community. It is this measuring stick of tangible improvements that I will use to gauge my effectiveness and competency as an elected Republican Party official, “Nussbaum stated.

Lucretia Regina-Potter, who is currently the Republican District Leader in the 49^th Assembly District, was born and raised in Brooklyn. She is the daughter of Italian immigrants and is married with two children. She attended Bishop Kearney High School and Fordham University where she received a B.A. degree. Lucretia is a Design Consultant at Bari Tile and Stone in Brooklyn. She is a member of many business executive and local community groups and supports several local youth soccer and athletic programs. Lucretia is also involved in her childrens’ school associations, and volunteers for many school functions. She is a very active, concerned mother and visible member of the community. Lucretia believes in traditional family values and that our community is home sweet home.

Politically, Lucretia is currently a member of the Executive Committee and Director of Communications of the Fiorello LaGuardia Republican Organization. She is also a member of the Executive Committee of the Kings County Republican Party, a sustaining member of the Republican National Committee and the National Federation of Republican Women. Regina-Potter’s district has been partially moved to the 46^th AD as a result of the 2012 redistricting.

“I grew up in Brooklyn, and still enjoy the beaches, the shopping, and the hometown feel of our area. Brooklyn is the best county in the nation with the best people and it deserves the very best leadership! People who are raised in a community such as ours know what our neighborhood concerns are. As a Republican Leader, I have the experience and knowhow to deal with many issues concerning our quality of life. I am dedicated to the concerns of our families, neighborhood improvement, and helping the small business owner who is the backbone of any community. A victory for our Republican Leadership Team in the 46^th Assembly District will be a victory for all the residents of our community,” Lucretia Regina-Potter said.

Nussbaum and Regina-Potter are candidates in the September 10^th Republican Primary for District Leader. The district includes Coney Island and parts of Brighton Beach, Bath Beach, Bensonhurst, Dyker Heights, and Bay Ridge.

Photo Caption: Candidates for District Leader of the 46^th Assembly District, (L-R) Lucretia Regina-Potter and Marcus A. Nussbaum, taking a break from greeting supporters at Thursday evening’s community event.

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Republican District Leader 49AD

As a Republican District Leader in Brooklyn for the past several years, I have learned of the history of the Republican Party in Brooklyn and the people that helped develop and shape its past firsthand. I am fortunate enough to learn of many prominent Brooklyn Republicans from someone who has had the honor and privilege of working with many great Brooklyn Republicans, the Founder and Chairman of the Fiorello LaGuardia Republican Organization, and former Republican Assemblyman 49AD, Dr. Arnaldo A. Ferraro. It is with much sadness that we learned of the passing of Angelo Arculeo, former Republican Minority Leader of the City Council and District Leader of the old 49^th AD and recall him with fond memories.

Dr. Ferraro recounts his memories of Mr. Arculeo:

“I met Angelo for the first time while he was the Minority Leader if the NYC Council in the early 1980’s,  and later when he was the Republican Leader of the 49Ad Republican Club around 1984 when I was looking to run for the Assembly seat in that area. He and his co-leader Esther Gardella, who also passed away some time ago, were instrumental in taking back the 49AD for the Republican Party which had previously been lost to Louis Freda, a Democrat, in an open-seat race. Freda defeated Robert DiCarlo Jr., the son of the esteemed and long time Assemblyman Dominick DiCarlo who resigned and vacated his Assembly seat to become Assistant Secretary of State to President Ronald Regan, and later became a Federal Judge. Dominick DiCarlo Sr. had hoped his son would win his seat and was deeply disappointed with him loosing to a relatively unknown Democrat.

Angelo Arculeo campaigned very actively with me and introduced me to many groups in the area that he knew of from being a Councilman and a District Leader. Angelo was popular and well respected in     Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights, Bensonhurst, and the Bath Beach area, which in the past constituted the old 49^th AD, a much more contiguous geographical area at that time. The 49^th was then split into four current Assembly Districts: 46, 49, 47, and the 63^rd Ads. As the Male and Female District Leaders of one of the most powerful Republican clubs in Brooklyn at that time, when the election of viable Republican candidates was a top priority and Republican unity was proven to be a powerful political force in Brooklyn, Angelo and Esther worked very hard in fulfilling their duties. Because of their hard work, I was able to defeat Louis Freda, an incumbent Democrat, and take back the Assembly seat for the Republican Party in the 49^th AD. I am truly grateful to have known such a good man and consider him a great leader of the Brooklyn Republican Party”

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Celeste Katz’s article of February 8, 2013, in the NY Daily News Daily Politics blog, In GOP Power Play, Commissioners’ Jobs May Not Be Only Ones In Flux At NYC Board Of Elections is informative and well presented. However, it does not yet mention a few other aspects of this situation regarding the appointment of Republican Election Commissioners.

While the borough of Queens has two conflicting Republican factions, which might be what determined the circumstances surrounding the appointment of their Republican Commissioner, we have no knowledge of two openly conflicting factions in Kings County. The political power play in Queens should not have been applied to Brooklyn, and this leads to several conclusions as follows:

First and most importantly, is the failure of the respective County Chairmen of the Republican Party to submit a letter of recommendation for the appointment or reappointment of the Election Commissioners of the GOP. Such an omission created the unusual and rarely used procedure that empowered the members of the City Council of the Republican Party to fill the vacancies of Election Commissioners with what appears to be their own choice. The problem in this case is that Kings County has no Republican Council member that completely represents the borough of Brooklyn. Therefore, the choice of appointment for the Brooklyn Republican Election Commissioner had to be made by people who had nothing or very little to do with Brooklyn.

This brings the next point which is a simple question: Who authorized or made the recommendation from Kings County?

Being a “fan” of a State Senator or vice-verse should not preclude that a “fan” could be appointed to what is considered to be one of the highest positions in the Republican Party from Kings County. Similarly, this should not preclude the possibility of giving the opportunity to the Republican Executive Committee of Kings County (especially duly elected ones, and not the appointed ones) to recommend other Republican Party members for appointment to this position, especially those who have previous experience and knowledge of the NYC Board of Elections and its procedures. Perhaps the appointment of “fans” is one of the reasons why the NYC Board of Elections has been defined as “dysfunctional”.  As such, it will continue to have this reputation if recommendations for appointments to all Board of Election jobs are based upon loyalty to the party alone and not on consideration to qualifications for a particular position.

Lucretia Regina-Potter

Republican State Committeewoman-49^th AD

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Lucretia Regina-Potter, Assembly Candidate for the 46^th Assembly District received the “enthusiastic endorsement” of her candidacy from the NYS Right to Life Committee. In a letter sent to Mrs. Regina-Potter by the Committee Chairman and other Committee Directors, they state their support:

“We are pleased to inform you that we enthusiastically endorse your candidacy for the New York State Assembly for the 46^th District.

We sincerely appreciate your commitment to defend and protect unborn children, the dependent elderly and those with disabilities at all stages of life. On behalf of the innocent and vulnerable members of the human family, we thank you for your resolve and outspokenness in promoting the sanctity of life at all stages of development.

We believe that your election to the Assembly would be a positive step toward continuing the cultivation of a culture of life. We wish you a successful campaign and look forward to your stand for life in the New York State Assembly.”

Lucretia Regina-Potter graciously accepted this endorsement and stated:“I believe that the endorsement of the NYS Right to Life Committee is welcomed especially by those people with high family values in the 46^th Assembly District. I am honored to be the standard bearer of the Right to Life principles for the protection and sanctity of  life!”

For Immediate Release

Lucretia Regina-Potter Announces Candidacy for 46^th Assembly Seat

Lucretia Regina-Potter, the female Republican State Committeewoman (District Leader) of the 49^th Assembly District, and Director of Communications of the Fiorello LaGuardia Republican Organization, who was recently reapportioned to the 46^th Assembly District, has announced her candidacy for the NYS Assembly in the new 46^th Assembly District.  Mrs. Regina-Potter, who is being challenged by a candidate put up by the Republican leadership of Brooklyn, recently filed specifications of objections against her opponent’s petition signatures.  Although she was able to successfully challenge many signatures of her opponent’s petitions, the NYC Board of Elections, whose members and commissioners are placed for employment by party leaders, found an easy way to dismiss Lucretia Regina-Potter’s specifications of objections, by giving more importance to an obscure and inconsequential technicality over the validity of her opponent’s petition signatures. As a result of this decision, a Primary Election will be held on Thursday, September 13, 2012.

“I welcome such a primary,” stated a beaming Lucretia Regina-Potter, “because I am a new fresh face in the 46^th Assembly District! This primary will allow me the opportunity to meet, on a personal basis, many more Republicans in the new 46^th Assembly District, as well as keeping in contact with the 900 Republicans who signed my petitions. I feel very optimistic about this challenge, which in ordinary circumstances should have been prevented and avoided by those people who have the responsibility to strengthen the Republican Party instead of creating such divisiveness that weakens the Republican Party in Brooklyn. Nevertheless, over the years I have gotten used to such disruptive and destructive strategy of the Brooklyn GOP, which in the long run, does not help the Republican elected officials of this county. I am looking forward to the support and participation of Republicans throughout the entire campaign, and with their help and support, establish a permanent and independent feminine presence in the 46^th Assembly District. Together, we will achieve our objectives and celebrate our victory!”

Lucretia Regina-Potter is a Brooklyn native and a lifelong resident of Bath Beach. She holds a BA from Fordham University, and is a Tile and Stone Design consultant for Bari Tile and Stone in Brooklyn. She and her husband Christopher of twenty two years, have two children, Michael, a junior in college and Amanda, a freshman in high school. Lucretia is also the duly elected female State Committeewoman of the 49^th Assembly District and has been active in politics and community affairs for the past several years. Lucretia can be reached at contact@LucretiaRegina-Potter.com

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