Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder- Hurricane Sandy Fundraiser

uh little change in the schedule assemblyman phil goldfeder represents faraway all the way through breezy point i was just told um 80 percent of assemblyman goldfeder's constituents were affected by hurricane sandy and uh we'd like to just call upon him safe through short words you know at first i was at first a little embarrassed you know embarrassed by the way i dressed you know i try not to dress like this anymore but i think i'm more embarrassed to tell you how long i've been wearing these clothes unfortunately you know since the hurricane uh my house did receive about five feet of water and my wife is thankfully and i i thank someone who likes the matter what's my counterpart here has been living in this district um and she's been treated very well so i thank you but i'm here just to say and to the community here and and obviously to survive and uh bender and just to say thank you because to be on the street you know 20 hours 21 22 hours a day not just in brockway not just in bay's water not just in belle harbor not just in howard beach all throughout the community that have been devastated and to say the word devastated i drove somebody from far away tonight to bell harbor and they thought they understood what was going on they thought they knew what was going on but as you go farther and farther west and you see the more and more the piles of sand you're four blocks inland and there's piles and piles of sand that are on the beach and in people's homes it's devastating it's truly devastating but as our garfner has said it's really the one shiny thing the one one positive you can take out is that people have come together the queen's community the brooklyn community muncie people from all over the country have been coming into far rockaway and coming into bay's water have been coming into the community and saying what can we do to help how can we be a part of this process and i want to say it's been for for the people who have been on the ground it's been very trying you know i left the meeting at bender's house at about 12 30 in the morning and i said there's something one thing to discuss it says don't worry i'll hold you later we both knew it was gonna be a two three four in the morning uh kind of night and and these are things that that that are not no longer strange for the last eight days it's been almost every single night and i really just want to say thank you to the people in the community but but the people who have hosted us who have been fantastic we need more help we need a lot of um and everything not just in the form of of a dollar but obviously that helps but but you never know there's an expertise there's something you can offer there's something that you can lend there's a way that you can benefit all of our communities because when you give to faraway we give to our neighborhood you're giving to all of us because you're helping us all be much much stronger and you're helping the entire community get back on its feet so i would say thank you to the people who have done all great job on the ground and of course to our neighbors and to everybody across the state and across the country who have really lent their support sometimes in strange ways but all the support is appreciated and i want to say thank you