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Kelly,
Since you're dropping my name all over this board, it is time for me to weigh in.
It is troubling to me how you have been associated with candidates and parties across the political spectrum. You convinced me, for a time,
that you are a conservative and that those who control our party are not. I am certainly rethinking what I once assumed true.
You have worked with the Republican party "leadership" to attempt to wrest control from the Schenectady County Conservative Party
and, more recently to defeat the No New Tax Party. I have learned that you speak regularly and confidentially with some insiders
in the Democratic party. The discussion of who saw Hamilton meeting with Parisi in his office hasn't discussed why you were there
to observe this meeting.
While I appreciated your support in placing campaign signs for the No New Tax Party, there are reasons why you were not allowed on the
"inside" of our campaign efforts. I and we knew that everything that was being told to you was being revealed to our opponents. You can
certainly deny it, but I have received confirmation from several sources.
In recent phone conversations (until I terminated discussions with you a month ago), it was clear that you were calling not as a friend,
but rather as a political operative for Buchanan. I will repeat here what I told you then. Any discussions between the Republican Party
and the No New Tax Party are none of your concern. I personally, have no interest in speaking with the Republican party leadership
nor see any point in doing so at this time. Perhaps, once the NNTP endorses its slate of candidates, there will be a time and purpose for
such a meeting. But, again, any future meeting will not involve you.
You refer to trust. It has become very clear to me that I cannot trust you and never could. You suggest that John used me as leverage
against his party. It was, however, you who used me to further your personal agenda. In my estimation, it was never about promoting
Conservatives, it was about promoting you.
There is much political history and information that we share. I cannot change that. However, I have more confidence, trust and respect
for those with who I am currently associated than those who are among your political circle. You chose your friends and they chose you.
Both will have to live with their decisions.
After paying due thought as to whether I would bother to respond to this abomination of reality and what information I might reveal in doing so, I have decided it is time to set the record straight for those who share my preference for honesty. I apologize in advance for the length, but some things are just not better left unsaid.
First, I just want to quickly note that I have seen the truthful responses in my defense, and I sincerely appreciate them all.
As for you, Brad…
I see John Mertz has finally taught you to be proactive in covering your inconsistencies, just as he himself has always done.
It is no surprise that you would interpret a mere mention of you as “dropping your name all over this board” …get over yourself Brad. By the way, the posts to which you refer were meant to defend you, before you made it clear that you don’t deserve it.
And when ISN”T it time for you to weigh in? Endlessly…on everything?
“Association” is a loosely defined term…it can mean anything from the most casual, infrequent exposure to the closest relationships, of one sort or another…whether it be business, personal, political, some combination thereof…whatever. So I’m not sure of the context you had in mind, but I “associate” with a lot of people across the political spectrum for one reason or another, on one level or another. Where that involves candidates for public office, I have consistently and exclusively supported conservative candidates, regardless of who I talk to or associate with along the way. You continually insisted that because I associate with Gerard Parisi, I must be working against you…despite numerous assurances that my association with Gerard or anyone else had no effect on my complete loyalty and support for you as a friend, or a candidate. I have never given you a single valid reason to believe otherwise, and Mertz’ insistence to the contrary out of hatred for Gerard does not qualify as a valid reason.
While I do not care about your clueless judgments of my associations that are none of your business anyway, their “troubling” nature can be explained by your obvious inability to understand that ideology is individual… political parties are a collection of enrolled individuals, all of whom do not necessarily share a certain ideology…that’s why there are liberal Republicans, conservative Democrats, etc. In this county, many will tell you there is no such thing as a conservative Democrat. I believe that is mostly because only two, that I know of, have run for office anywhere in this county…but I know plenty of private citizens who would qualify as conservative Democrats. I associate with them too, which, by your standards, brings my conservative leanings into question, but I have a newsflash for you Brad: I am totally secure in my conservative values with or without your stamp of authenticity…which is why I have never even attempted to “convince” you that I am a conservative, because I feel no need to do so. I realize that you think everyone is now accountable to you Brad, but I’ll say it again…get over yourself, as I have another newsflash for you Brad: There are all kinds of conservatives, too. And while I am a full spectrum conservative myself, you will have a hard time convincing someone who is, say, a pro-lifer, that they are not a conservative, even if they have liberal views of everything else. But since you represent the only acceptable form of conservatism Brad, whatever you have deemed that to be, you would talk them to death trying to convince them that only your brand of conservatism is genuine, or have another one of your increasingly famous hissy fits, or call them names like “buffoon” and “pissant”, or tell them of your “disdain” for them and write them off – even if they WERE supporting you.
Of course you are rethinking your conclusions about the leaders of the Schenectady County Conservative Party… your conclusions are never final…always in a constant state of amendment. Be sure to keep everyone updated with the latest versions as they develop, otherwise they won’t know what to think if you don’t figure it out for them Brad. I prefer to stick to the reality, as unfortunate as that may be…and that reality is that the Democrats own the Schenectady County Conservative Party and the union operatives who run it. If you want to believe that the Democrats in Schenectady County are conservative, you can add that to your long list of delusions, but that won’t make it so. The members of police unions who currently run the Party may be conservative, albeit to varying extents. The problem is that the Democrats who control it are not, and police union members in place are not there to nominate and support conservative candidates for election to public office, as I think has been clearly demonstrated in their continuous authorizations of liberal Democrats. In other words, they are not there to serve the Committee’s intended purpose. That’s why we see liberal Democrat candidates on the Conservative ballot lines…they favor the union agendas that are often in stark contrast with fiscal conservatism. If they were conservative Democrats, again, I wouldn’t care…but the Democrat elements currently controlling the party are no more conservative than the liberal Democrats they cross- nominate with the Hamilton element of the local Conservative Party. This will sound familiar to anyone who has followed local party politics longer than the short time you have been involved, because, unlike you Brad, I have been consistent in my statements and actions related to my participation…only the names of the union operatives have changed.
I have worked with members of the Republican Party and its leadership in a number of political/electoral endeavors, as circumstances require…we may support one or more of their candidates…we may seek their support for a conservative candidate…we are commonly engaged in Conservative Primaries involving one or more of their Republican candidates…and it is no secret that Republicans supported our effort to return the local Conservative Party to reliably loyal conservative hands, nor should it be a surprise. After all, conservative Republican candidates are repeatedly denied Conservative Party authorizations in favor of liberal Democrats, and it would be naïve to think that this injustice has not contributed to Democrat domination in this county.
And speaking of Democrats, I am not in regular, “confidential” contact with “Democrat insiders” just because John Mertz told you that he saw me speaking with Bill Cooke in public at the last town meeting. Bill Cooke is a friend, who knows I didn’t support any of his Democrat candidates, just as Gerard Parisi knew I wasn’t supporting any of his, while I had his motorcycle…and as I repeatedly told him that we were standing behind you and Brian despite the inevitable consequences for his candidates. And unlike your nameless, faceless “sources” Brad, I can direct you to live people, that actually exist, who would tell you that they have witnessed my unwavering support for you on not one, but many, many occasions…even in the face of adversity over it. As for Hamilton dropping in on Gerard, I do not know anything about the ensuing discussion between them…I left when Hamilton showed up, just as I told you right after it happened, and as I have posted on this board. I never “observed” anything, and I wasn’t there for the purpose of doing so, which is why I left.
It’s good to know, however, that you appreciated my placing your campaign signs, but I wouldn’t have accepted your gift certificates or the thank you cards in which they were enclosed if I had known they were just for that. I thought it was for taking them down and returning them for storage, too…and putting up your County Legislature signs…and making your palm cards…and securing signatures for you to acquire from Conservative electors…and reviewing opponents’ petitions to develop lists of Conservatives still eligible to sign your NNTP petitions…and helping you with your Primary…and the lit drops…and the phone calls…and the absentee ballots…and the fundraisers…and…well, those kinds of things. I must have been too busy to notice that I wasn’t being “allowed inside” your campaign, but the reasoning in your unsolicited explanation is just as delusional as the rest of your baseless accusations. The profoundly misguided notion that I worked to defeat you, or your No New Tax Party (which isn’t a party), is beyond absurd...beyond paranoid…beyond demented.
In our last phone conversation to which you refer, I was calling to update you on discussions with Republicans that they would not have with you directly, as your reputation for aggravating them with your pompous, infantile antics precedes you. So whether you are interested in talking to their leaders or not, the option is not yours. I have aggressively advocated for you with them since the beginning of the election season...from trying to secure for you a Republican authorization at the beginning of the season, to trying to get them to stomach you now, in the name of healing and to serve the greater good. You didn’t seem to mind all that time, since you never once asked me to cease communication on your behalf. And I don’t know what you are actually “repeating”, but it isn’t the content of that conversation. You never said that discussions between the NNTP (which isn’t a party) and the Republican Party are none of my concern, but rest assured that any discussions promoting you with the Republicans, or with anyone else for that matter, will never again be my concern. Speaking of which, it has been revealed that despite Buchanan’s difficulty in tolerating your erratic, destructive behavior, he would have authorized you but Deanna and Rene would not support you. The feeling at the time was that if the Republican Chair and Committee Members in your own town wouldn’t support you, Rotterdam would not do it. We may not have believed it at the time, but by the time the election was over you knew it was true…you expressed prolonged bitterness over their lack of support.
On your trust issues, as you may imagine by this time, I really don’t care if I ever have your trust. I only know you have shown me that you didn’t deserve mine.
And just so we’re clear on “suggesting” John used you… I have been trying to tell you since the earliest stages of your campaign that he did, and that continues as you read this. He went on with you and the No New Tax Party (which isn’t a party) only after he failed at selling out his running mates for the Republican nomination…his last chance to prevent a Republican Primary he wanted to avoid not because of the claimed threats to his political job, but out of a justified fear of losing that Primary…knowing he could not win without that ballot line…knowing that the NNTP line (which isn’t a party) would serve as revenge in the likely event that he lost the Republican Primary, as it would inevitably spoil Republican candidates who had the audacity to be nominated when he was denied. You relayed to me your observation that John was conspicuously absent during your post-Primary campaign…and I tried to tell you that it was because he wasn’t going to invest anymore effort into an election he now knew he could not win.
Why do you think Mertz wanted us to win our Committee Primaries…gracing us with the privilege of his uninvited presence the night of that Primary? Mertz wasn’t cheering for us because of the natural alliance that tends to occur between conservatives and Republicans. He was looking for our ballot line as leverage against his party for their nomination. Worst of all, he would have assumed that we would accommodate him. His stifling arrogance would never allow him to believe otherwise. So although any such attempt surely would have failed, it was his intention to use us and our Party to advance his selfish schemes, just as he is using you and your No New Tax Party (which isn’t a party) as leverage against them now.
How this would have led you to conclude that I am using you is beyond me. I don’t know what we could have used you for. You didn’t know anything about the process, you had to learn everything just like the others. And through it all Brad, you were the ONLY one who did nothing but whine, complain, second guess everything, question everybody, distract the others with phone calls inquiring about what they were doing…instead of just concentrating on the joint task at hand. I don’t know when I have experienced a more formidable challenge to my patience. You demonstrated an acute inability to function with a team, that I believe stems from your obviously large appetite for attention, importance, superiority and notoriety…our only hope for salvation.
Well Brad, I have another newsflash: We take the state of affairs in the Schenectady County Conservative Party seriously…this is not a game to us…there are no rock stars in our camp, and nobody wants to be one. There has never been anything in this for me, nor have I ever sought anything. We challenge the injustices to conservative candidates where and when we can… I do my best to help them achieve their goals, whatever they may be…and I have done it consistently for the conservative members of my Party who rightfully believe the Conservative Party should endorse conservative candidates. And you can believe that I would never dream of treating them the way you have treated your supporters. So I hope that your “confidence, trust and respect” for Mertz will generate all the support you need, Brad.
In my “estimation” Brad, the preceding is more than sufficient grounds for me to conclude that you have proven to be nothing more than a clueless, lying, paranoid, self-centered, infantile, arrogant, condescending ingrate of the worst kind.
Shame, shame on you Brad.
And just so you know, in anticipation of you "weighing in"...I have no intention of responding any further to your fairytales.
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