I know retirement has allowed me to much time to READ!!!
I dont care who called the meeting
UNDER NEW BUSINESS SOMEONE MADE A MOTION TO ENDORSE PARISI. PROBABLY HIMSELF OR MB OR FS.
POST THE MINUTES!!!!!!!!! >
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105TH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT
GOP committeee’s endorsement stirs up controversy
BY MICHAEL LAMENDOLA Gazette Reporter
The chairman of the Schenectady County Republican Committee plans to contest the endorsement the Rotterdam Republican Committee gave to Gerard Parisi in his bid to run for the 105th Assembly District seat in November.
Tom Buchanan called Thursday’s vote by the town committee invalid because it did not include a notice of endorsement on the agenda. “Parisi is leading people to believe it has a legal effect when it does not,” Buchanan said.
Buchanan said he is stepping into the matter to “ensure the integrity of the town committee endorsement process, especially given the irregularities of the town meeting in which county committee members in the town feel they were misled or tricked.”
Parisi said the town committee’s endorsement is valid, setting up a potential clash between him and Buchanan. “Any business that comes before the committee is proper,” he said.
Buchanan said the county committee’s executive committee supports incumbent Assemblyman George Amedore, R-Rotterdam, for the seat. Parisi is a member of the Rotterdam town board but said he does not plan to seek re-election.
The town committee took up the endorsement of Parisi under new business and used proxies of members not present to make the vote unanimous, Buchanan said. He said had members who signed the proxies known the committee was going to consider an endorsement, they would have left instructions on whom to endorse. A committee member, who asked her name not be used, said she would not have sent in her proxy had she known it would be used to endorse Parisi. The member said she supports Amedore.
Buchanan said he will call a full meeting of the county committee within the next seven to 10 days and that the membership would endorse Amedore for re-election.
“George Amedore has overwhelming support in both the Schenectady and Montgomery County Republican committees, and I will not allow slick political maneuvering and personal agendas to make it seem otherwise,” Buchanan said.
Parisi said he will challenge Buchanan’s position, even taking the matter to court. “It was ‘noticed,’ they made a motion. It was perfectly legal,” he said.