I dont know Ang personally, I am just a huge huge huge fan of his being Italian American and a real conserv and the only ones who stand up to the demos on a lot of issues. So is my family and we mostly conservs and some are registered in the demos and repubs too. I did get some kinds of calls on the machine and my wife hung up on a few callers too honestly but I didnt know if Ang was in it or not, and was thinking they were using him to bolster up the image of rhinestone without his permission. So what you are now telling me is that he is in deep in this? I cant believe this and am feeling a little ill. I hope that it doesnt hurt him that he got led down a bad path by those rabble roussers over this stuff. Manege! What about the other repubs didnt they do more bad stuff like Buchana and Lazzari Suhrad and Mertz or Tommasone even? Did they get against the police like these stunods in Rhinestones ring? I cant beleieve this was all Angelos fault!
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SCHENECTADY COUNTY Rhinesmith pays for failed coup Conservative faction leader to lose post
BY MICHAEL LAMENDOLA Gazette Reporter
Kelly Rhinesmith is about to pay the price for a failed insurgency. Rhinesmith, leader of an unsuccessful effort to take over the Schenectady County Conservative Committee, will lose her position on the committee’s executive board, the chairman said Wednesday. There is further fallout from her failed attempt to gain a majority of committee seats. The primary challenge has led to a split between the committee leadership and the regional leadership of the Republican Party. County Conservative Party Chairman Randy Pascarella said Rhinesmith will not be reappointed as recording secretary to the executive board during the reorganization meeting later this month. “The board is dissolved. As for Kelly, I don’t even have to comment on that,” Pascarella said. Rhinesmith did not return a phone call for comment; she said previously that she thinks The Daily Gazette is biased against her. Pascarella said he will remain chairman but was unable to say who the other officers would be. “We are not sure yet. The current administration hasn’t met to discuss changes to the new administration,” he said. The Rhinesmith faction came close to its goal, capturing 90 seats; it needed slightly more than 100 for a majority. The Pascarella group retained control with 110 seats. All results were unofficial Wednesday. Had they gained control, they would have ousted Pascarella and the other executive board members. The Rhinesmith faction claims that the executive board is controlled by police unions and by the Schenectady County Democratic Committee and that it endorsed candidates who do not share Conservative values. The current board consists of David F. Battaglia, vice chairman of legislative District 4; Michael Della Rocco Jr., a retired fire lieutenant and party vice chairman of the city; Peter Rakvica, president of AFSCME Local 1130, which represents 28 workers in the Niskayuna highway and parks departments, and party vice chairman in Niskayuna; and Mark LaViolette, a detective with the Schenectady Police Department and vice chairman of the party in Glenville. Robert Hamilton is Conservative Party club president. He also is president of the Schenectady Police Benevolent Association. UNHAPPY WITH GOP Pascarella also said the executive board remains at odds with Schenectady County Republican Committee Chairman Tom Buchanan and Bill Sherman, chief of staff for Assemblyman James Tedisco, R- Schenectady. “There are certain Republicans we will not talk to, but we have relationships with the Republicans,” he said. The committee will not blacklist Republicans, Pascarella said. “If we interview a good Republican and he is the right guy, we will do that. We will still endorse the right candidate in our views,” he said. Pascarella blasted Buchanan and Sherman, saying they attempted to take over the county Conservative Party. He contended that Republicans at the county and state level paid for a high-priced attorney during a court challenge over designating petitions and paid for literature and mailings sent to county Conservatives. In addition, Pascarella said Republicans, led by Buchanan and Sherman, spent several hours Monday delivering literature throughout the county to support the Rhinesmith faction’s committee choices. He said Rotterdam Town Board member John Mertz and Michael Cuevas, counsel for Assembly Republicans and a candidate for mayor of Schenectady last year, participated also. The Rhinesmith faction said they used their own money for the court case and mailings. Also, Sherman said he and the other Republicans helped Rhinesmith Monday at the faction’s request. Around 30 Conservatives allied with Rhinesmith assisted in the canvassing effort, he said. Sherman said Assembly Minority Leader James Tedisco’s offi ce was not directly involved in helping Rhinesmith. “I volunteered my time and took time off from my job. The same applies to everyone else,” he said. Sherman said he witnessed Democrats supporting Pascarella’s committee choices during canvassing efforts prior to the primary. He cited Chris Gardner, former Democratic Committee chairman and current county attorney, as being involved. He said Gardner was distributing literature containing Pascarella’s name, the name of Martin Finn, a Democratic incumbent in District 3 of the county Legislature, and two pro-Pascarella committee members. Gardner denied working on behalf of Pascarella. He said he was helping with the 21st Congressional District campaign of Paul Tonko. Schenectady County Democratic Committee Chairman Brian Quail said Gardner was working on behalf of Finn, who was facing an opportunity to ballot challenge for the Conservative line. Sherman, nonetheless, said he was pleased the faction came “just 10 seats short of our ultimate goal. This is the first chapter in a long novel, so I think there is more to the story to write.” The goal now is to work for compromise between the Rhinesmith faction and the current leadership, Sherman said. “The current party leadership can’t disregard what happened during Tuesday’s primary. It is a message that there is a need for compromise on the committee.”
guess ang won;t be getting the conservative endorsement again for a while.
First nickel, are you saying that even IF this Ang, who I believe is a rep...shows true conserv values, he won't be endorsed? Then that will reinforce the fact that the present conserves are NOT acting in behalf of the people. Then our local conservs are NOT true conservs at all.
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no, I will stay in touch... Change is coming.
And papa, there definately should be change. This faction barely missed their agenda. It was actually quite impressive the seats they did get. There just might be the massive exit from the present conserv party if there is no change. I have heard that from serveral conservs in the area that were not involved with this faction. They have already said that they will be watching the conserv party closely. And that IF they see a liberal endorsed over a more conserv candidate...they're outta there.
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guess ang won;t be getting the conservative endorsement again for a while.
Do you know what you're talking about???
The Conservative executive board never gave Angelo the endorsement in the last election. Angelo had to petition for the endorsement. So nothings really changed. He'll just have to circumvent the executive boards decision again, if they choose to select a liberal democrat. He already has 90 guaranteed signatures, plus however many people voted for those 90.
Angelo pissed on the Conservative Executive Board's decision not to endorse him when he ran last time, he'll just have to piss on them again if he chooses to run again.
Quoted from Cicero: ... Angelo pissed on the Conservative Executive Board's decision not to endorse him when he ran last time, he'll just have to piss on them again if he chooses to run again.
And he will have my full support in campaigning for reelection if he continues to represent conservative ideals.
i know he diod not have its support and had to do an opportunity to ballot -- what i am saying is he will never, ever get the endorsement through through the front door -- only by OTB -- he was part of the rhinesmith faction and is not looked upon with favor by the current leadership.
so, had kelly won, he would have gotten the endorsement easily, now he will have to work for it
i know he diod not have its support and had to do an opportunity to ballot -- what i am saying is he will never, ever get the endorsement through through the front door -- only by OTB -- he was part of the rhinesmith faction and is not looked upon with favor by the current leadership.
so, had kelly won, he would have gotten the endorsement easily, now he will have to work for it
Wow. So, if he was 100% conservative in his voting history, 100% conservative in his speeches, 100% conservative in everything he did while representing the people, and his closest oppoent was a liberal tax/spend democrat, he STILL wouldn't get the party endorsement?
That's pretty bad NPR. I thought you were talking about "change" - but I guess you're more like Obama's version of "change" - more of the same bullshit.
well, i could be wrong of course, and the party could endorse him cause of his belief, but at some time, i also believe they will remember their enemies before they remember their values. lol
They have already said that they will be watching the conserv party closely. And that IF they see a liberal endorsed over a more conserv candidate...they're outta there.
That would be the wrong thing to do. That's exactly what Pascarella and Hamilton want. Free reign of the Party, to do with as they see fit. They want to be able to give $700 to Schalmont Athletics, without anybody to question them. They don't want to expand the party enrollment, they could care less if those who recently enrolled in the Conservative Party leave the Party.
Those who currently control the party are nothing more than a bunch of thugs who turned the local Conservative Party into something that resembles a Sapronos style crime family. Smearing the person who actually enrolled more conservatives to the party, because it threatened those who control the party. If you're not a union member or a relative of a union member, you need not apply.
Now the Conservative Party is a divided party, weaker and more irrelevant than before these primaries.
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