Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York February 7, 2012 (Ragusa v. Ognibene)

*684The petitioner’s unrefuted submissions demonstrate that he was elected Chairman of the Republican Party County Committee for the County of Queens, State of New York (hereinafter the QCRP), at its 2009 organizational meeting, and that the Chairman of the New York Republican State Committee subsequently recognized the petitioner as the Chairman of the QCRP As such, pursuant to the