AN OPEN LETTER

PLEASE VOTE FOR PAUL ARTETA IN THE REPUBLICAN PRIMARY JUNE 28th

Please read and tell your friends who can vote in the Republican Primary.  We need every vote we can get so please forward to your friends or post on your social media. Less than 2,000 people have voted so far in the early voting and in low turn out elections like this only a few votes can make the difference so your vote is important and will count.

The most important race to me this year is the Republican Primary for Sheriff.  Paul Arteta is running against the current Undersheriff. I support Paul Arteta and have been working to help him win the Republican Primary.  I hope that you will help Paul by voting for him and asking anyone you know to support Paul.

Paul Arteta won the Orange County Republican endorsement by a vote of 1,256 against the Undersheriff’s vote of 481, a 2.6 to 1 margin so I am not the only one who supports Paul Arteta.  Please take a few minutes to vote for Paul in the Primary because in Primaries like this, it is the person who gets the most supporters out to vote that wins. We need a Sheriff with experience that we can trust and will be fair to us and the Sheriff’s Office employees.  Paul Arteta is that person.

The Undersheriff has been in office after being appointed by the current Sheriff for almost 20 years and in that time, he has abused his power, hired his friends and his girlfriend.  He is the reason that it has taken people over six months or more just to get fingerprinted for years.  The reason that people’s applications have been waiting for six months or more to be processed is that the Undersheriff either had the applications sitting on his desk or did not dedicate the manpower to process the pistol applications. Now that the Undersheriff is running for office he is touting the fact that they are processing fingerprinting and pistol applications at the highest rate ever, how can he do that?  That is because now that he is running in a primary he has expanded the fingerprinting hours and the number of investigators. Why hasn’t he been doing that for the last 15 years? Many people have waited a year or more to get their pistol permits, including probably you, with the most of the delay caused by the Undersheriff.

The Undersheriff’s girlfriend is now making over $62,500 a year with benefits even though she failed to have the qualifications required in the Job Description. In 2017 the Undersheriff also had someone photo shop the official NY State Pickup forms and had over 230 illegal amendments to people’s pistol licenses issued.  Even in this political race it appears that the Undersheriff has used the list of people who took the Sheriff’s Office Handgun Safety class or retired police office’s HR218 class as a mailing list for his campaign asking for support and donations. I could go on but you get the idea. It is my experience that if someone is dishonest in one area they are dishonest in other areas also.

This Sunday from 9AM to 5PM is the last day of early voting at 8 sites in Orange County and the regular election at all the voting sites in Orange County will be on Tuesday, June 28th from 6 AM to 9 PM.  You can go to any early voting location to vote no matter where you live in Orange County. You can look up the early voting locations on the Orange County Board of Election website.  https://www.orangecountygov.com/1953/Early-Voting-Information

If you want to wait and vote on June 28th, you can go to the following link and find out where your voting location will be.  (You will have to vote at that location.) https://voterlookup.elections.ny.gov/

MY CLASS
GUNCLASS INFORMATION
HANDGUN SAFETY CLASS

    Because the Orange County Sheriff’s Department requires that I only use their Handgun Safety Power Point to remain on the Approved Instructor list, that is what I use.  Their Power Point covers all of the basics of safety, how different types of guns work, ammo, NY use of force laws and other topics.  In addition to the mandated Power Point, I also include an optional additional two-hour class where I show several different types of guns and how they work, ammunition, more information about the history of NY laws and other sections of NY law you should know about, how the licensing system works, the number one reason people get denied, amending your license, where you can and can’t carry and other important topics.  Basically, the additional two hours is almost everything you need to know after you get your handgun license. If you have any questions please feel free to e-mail me and CLICK HERE TO go to my page that has more about my class.

UPCOMING CLASS DATES

I will still be giving private classes
where and when you want.
GUN CLASS AT YOUR HOUSE
FOR PEOPLE IN ORANGE, ULSTER, SULLIVAN AND OTHER COUNTIES

I will charge:
One person is $100
Two people $85 each
Three people $75 each
Four or more people $65 each
I offer additional reduced prices for larger classes and first responders and their family.
(I might have to charge a small amount for
travel if you are not close.)
The Safety Class is good for Ulster, Sullivan, Westchester
and other counties.