8 The Courier sun • NOVEMBER 10, 2016 for breaking news visit www.qns.com ELECTION 2016 Addabbo a clear-cut winner in State Senate re-election bid BY ANTHONY GIUDICE [email protected]/@A_GiudiceReport The people have spoken, and Democratic incumbent Joseph Addabbo has won the 15th State Senate District over Republican challenger Michael Conigliaro by a 63.1 percent to 36.9 percent margin with 100 percent of precincts reporting. Addabbo appeared at the Old Mill Yacht Club, located at 163-15 Cross Bay Blvd. in Howard Beach, to celebrate his victory and where he took the time to thank his family, his staff and his supporters for all of their work and dedication. “I wanted to say thank you to those who really make it a pleasure for me to work and for all of you to understand that you made one person’s dream of being a public servant become a reality,” Addabbo said. “So I really want to say thank you very much.” The 15th Senate District represents the neighborhoods of Howard Beach, Ozone Park, Woodhaven, Glendale, Middle Village, Maspeth and parts of South Ozone Park, Ridgewood, Woodside and The Rockaways. Addabbo took the time on Election Day to visit all parts of his district, visiting several voting sites to see hear what his constituents were saying and what they were concerned about. “I had the great pleasure from going from corner-to-corner, end-to-end in the district today, visiting almost all the polling sites,” Addabbo said. “And I hear a lot. I hear a lot of supporters’ words, but I also hear complaints and I think the state has to do something with the election process.” The senator said that he wanted to get to work on fixing that very process by instituting an early voting system when he goes back to Albany. “It means I have additional work to do. We have a lot of work to do up in Albany,” Addabbo said of winning the election. “But there’s a lot of ongoing projects, a lot of work in the district. So there’s little rest for the weary. Tomorrow it’s back to work. I love it. I don’t consider it work; it is a passion to try and help others, so I look forward to going back to work and I’m grateful.” The Republican candidate congratulated his opponent and thanked his supporters as he left the Queens County GOP Headquarters located at 71-20 Myrtle Ave. in Glendale. “I want to thank my supporters and with the results of the election I hope the district gets the representation it truly deserves,” Conigliaro said. Photo by Anthony Giudice/QNS State Senator Joseph Addabbo celebrates his victory in the 15th Senatorial District race. Trump is first Queens president, but loses home boro BY ROBERT POZARYCKI [email protected]/@robbpoz Donald Trump, who grew up in Jamaica Estates, will be the 45th president of the United States—but his home borough wasn’t with him. Stunning the entire world, the Republican billionaire celebrity defeated Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Tuesday night, even though Clinton won Queens in a landslide. Clinton won every single Assembly District in Queens and more than 425,000 votes cast overall. Trump garnered at least 10,000 votes in just three Assembly Districts; the 23rd (covering Howard Beach, Ozone Park, Broad Channel and much of the Rockaways), the 26th (covering much of Bayside, Douglaston, Glen Oaks and Little Neck) and the 28th (covering much of Forest Hills, Glendale, Maspeth, Middle Village, Rego Park and Ridgewood). The tightest race in Queens was in the 23rd District, where Clinton bested Trump by a little more than 3,000 votes. Not surprisingly, Trump did the best in the three districts that included a sizable conservative population. A report by Renthop noted that Trump secured at least 70 percent of the political donations from three neighborhoods in Queens: Middle Village, which is in the 28th District, and Howard Beach and Breezy Point, both of which are part of the 23rd District. Clinton earned more than 30,000 votes in three different Assembly Districts in southeast Queens: the 29th (covering Jamaica, St. Albans and Laurelton), the 32nd (covering Jamaica, South Jamaica, Springfield Gardens and Rochdale) and the 33rd (covering Queens Village, Bellerose, Cambria Heights and Laurelton). Here’s a little political factoid: Queens’ population is estimated at 2.3 million, or about 300,000 larger than the population of New Mexico. Were Queens a state unto itself, it probably would have the same number of electoral votes (5) as the Land of Enchantment, which went to Clinton on Tuesday night. Photo: Angela Matua/QNS Voters in Queens
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