Quoted from 713

Thanks littlesal for posting the information from Parisi's and Salamone's  Facebook accounts.  Ms. Donovan, it is evident that, despite
your uninformed or dishonest statements to the contrary, the Parisi faction of the party continued to oppose Amedore's reelection after the Primary Election had awarded the peoples' endorsement to the incumbant.  As town party chair, are Parisi and Salamone unwelcome in the Republican party since they worked to advance the interests of the Democratic challenger?  Or, is there a double standard at work here?

No double standards. Frank Salamone has done absolutely nothing to destroy or break down the Amedore campain after the primary. Gerard Parisi was the candidate that ran against him and I wouldn't expect him to be on the frontlines. (?) He is currently doing a great job on the town board.
He did NOT start a party of his own and sever that election even more. If he HAD done that, you really don't know what the outcome would of been.
The Amedore afommittee in general supported Amedore after the primary. My executive board showed up every weekend to lit drop. There are committee people who actually work for the assembly that didn't show up. It is Always difficult to get volunteers. So I am not sure what your comments mean...

he was involved from the beginning?

did you forget about this?

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ROTTERDAM
2 could vie for GOP’s line
Amedore may face primary challenge
BY JUSTIN MASON Gazette Reporter

    Members of the Rotterdam Republican Committee are discussing a possible primary challenge to state Assemblyman George Amedore, some saying that he didn’t help the party during a tough election season last fall.
    Petitions have circulated among town committee members recently calling for the party to conduct a special meeting regarding Amedore’s endorsement. Some committee members who signed the petition are suggesting former committee Chairman Gerard Parisi as possibly better suited for the state Legislature’s 105th Assembly District.
    “It’s time for some new faces in Albany,” said Mary Barrie, a committee member who made an unsuccessful run for a seat on the Schenectady County Legislature in November. “You have someone who’s willing to run, so let’s give him a try.”
    Several committee members who signed the petition said they remain rankled by what they perceive as Amedore’s lack of support during heated county and town contests in November. Rotterdam Republicans were beaten in every contested race, leading to a clean sweep of the GOPcontrolled Town Board and the loss of one seat on the county Legislature.
   Rotterdam committee member Frank Salamone said he signed the petition to determine what options are available for the seat, not as a call to oust Amedore. He said the incumbent hasn’t been as vocal on certain issues as some committee members expected and didn’t come to the local party’s aid in its time of need.
    “George upset a lot of people,” he said. “He hasn’t really been doing anything for us.”
    Like Barrie, Salamone said he would support a run by Parisi, who is serving out the year as an appointed Town Board member, the sole Republican on the board. But Salamone reiterated that the drive for a committee meeting was more focused on discussing potential candidates.
    “We’re not saying this is done,” he said. “We’re saying we want to investigate whether there is a better candidate.”
    Town Committee Chairman James Longo did not return a call for comment. It is unclear whether there are enough signatures yet to spur a special meeting of the committee.
    Contacted Wednesday, Parisi admitted that he’s interested in a run for the Assembly, something that has been on his mind since party leaders initially approached him about the seat four years ago. If he does run for the seat, he said he would stump for term limits as a major campaign promise.
    Parisi did not rule out a direct challege to Amedore, but a run for the Assembly might not entail one. He said there’s a chance Amedore could run against U.S. Rep. Paul Tonko, D-Amsterdam, whose seat is up for grabs in November, or for state Sen. Hugh Farley’s spot if the veteran legislator decides to retire.
    “It may be an available seat,” he said of the 105th District.
    Amedore said he plans to run for another term in office, even though he hasn’t announced his intentions yet. He said his focus now is on the state budget process, not the intricacies of seeking another term.
    “There will be a time to campaign, but right now is not it,” he said.
    Amedore disputed the notion that he didn’t help the Rotterdam Republicans at all during their 2009 campaign. He said he wasn’t deeply involved because he was never asked for help by the local chairmen.
    “Never once did I receive any phone call from anyone,” he said.
    Amedore’s endorsement will be subject to a decision by the party committees in both Montgomery and Schenectady counties. The Rotterdam Republicans are a sizeable faction of the Schenectady County party, which includes members from all of the committees in the outlying towns and the city.
    Tom Buchanan, chairman of the Schenectady County Republican Committee, said a decision about Amedore’s endorsement will come before petitions are disseminated in June. Though aware of the petition drive in Rotterdam, he said there’s been no other indication that the county party wouldn’t endorse the incumbent.
    “The town of Rotterdam can do what it wants,” he said. “But at the end of the day, the vote is held at the county level.”
    Montgomery County’s Republican Committee isn’t expected to back away from Amedore either. Party Chairman Joseph Emanuele III said the county committee is pleased with the assemblyman’s performance and strongly supports his bid for reelection.
    “Montgomery County has strongly supported George and his commitment to the 105th,” he said.

Rotterdam GOP: Amedore expected quid pro quo

Sean Ahern 05/19/10
Amedore calls statement ‘bogus’


Rotterdam GOP members say Assemblyman George Amedore did not support the Rotterdam Republican ticket in 2009 because the town denied a zoning change he had applied for. Amedore, who is awaiting the Schenectady County endorsement for his second Assembly run, denies the allegation.

According to minutes from a Jan. 27 meeting of the Rotterdam Republican Party, Amedore, R,C-Rotterdam, said the reason that he did not support the 2009 Republican ticket was because of a zoning change he was not granted by former Town Supervisor Steve Tommasone. “I didn’t support the republican ticket because Steve Tommasone didn’t give me my zone change in Rotterdam and it cost my family a lot of money!” the minutes of the meeting show Amedore saying.

Amedore, in a Wednesday, May 19 interview, said that the minutes were “bogus” and were amended to reflect what some members wanted them to say.

“Those are not my words- those minutes were amended,” said Amedore. “Those are bogus meeting minutes, they are manipulating them to what they want to say. I am in a public office to serve the people and will not support any politician or political campaign that are nasty and goes against peoples character.”

Town board member and New York State Assembly candidate Gerard Parisi said he was in the room when Amedore made the statement — something he says the committee considered when endorsing him as their pick for the 105th Assembly seat.

“I think its something the committee looked at when they were looking at their candidate,” said Parisi. “Its not exactly easy in party politics to go against the incumbent…I don’t think they want to endorse any candidate that does not reflect the ideals of the committee.”

Rotterdam Republican committeewoman Tracy Donovan also said that Amedore did not support the 2009 Republican ticket, did nothing to stop the No New Tax Party and never reached out to the community during the campaign. According to the minutes, Donovan asks him why he was not around during the whole campaign until the night of the vote. Donovan then states that he “stood alone in the corner with a big smile on his face.”

It is at this point in the minutes that Amedore responds about the zoning change and former town supervisor Tommasone. Amedore on Wednesday said the zone change had no real bearing on the campaign of 2009 and believes the question and answer were taken out of context. Amedore says he was not asked to take part in the Rotterdam campaigns until the night before the election.

“It’s the same old sick tactics that people are sick and tired of,” said Amedore on Wednesday, May 19. “I will not support any type of people that want to use those types of tactics.”

Amedore was endorsed by the Montgomery County Republican Committee at their annual spring meeting in Florida on Tuesday, May 18. The Schenectady Republican Committee will meet in the coming weeks to pick their endorsement.

Classic case of "Do what I say, not what I do".  I am hoping that there are candidates who will run on independent ballot lines in
the upcoming local elections.  The names that I'm hearing as potential Republican candidates are retreads from 2009.

Quoted from tdonovan

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He did NOT start a party of his own and sever that election even more..

'SEVER THE ELECTION EVEN MORE'?????
This is a clear admission on your part to confirm what schenectady county is aware of..........GP, with the support of FS...did in fact try to 'sever the election'.......just not 'even more'!! WTH??

Again......not taking responsibility for your failures.
Ousting a sitting elected official.
Pinning one rep against another - Suhrada/Mertz
Campaigning on a taxing district with liberal fear rhetoric.
Negative campaigning.
Lazy campaigning.
.........it was a rotterdam rep shipwreck from the beginning!!

And that, ms.donovan, is why independent party lines, such as NNTP and pat z's STOP are springing up and gaining speed and support. There is no where else for the 'real conservative, less government' minded people to go!

You are clearly convoluting the facts and are unable to move the rotterdam reps forward! imho of course!

I always find it interesting how people can sit around and hash out what is in essence ancient history, while completely ignoring the calamity that is the present town government. Amazing...  

Turn the page. Ms. Donovan should sit down with NNTP leaders and start proposing solutions to the current DEM calamity. The revisionist history is sickening. Those that do not know history are condemned to repeat it. What happened to big tent REPS?

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  What happened to big tent REPS?

It can't get much bigger than coming just short of endorsing Angelo a Democrat.  Unless of course you mean conservative representation is excluded from the party.  The Rotterdam Reps. represent the liberal/socialist/neo-com area of the political spectrum, not much different than the Democrats.  They'd like us to believe there's a difference, but in reality, there isn't.  Free market, small government conservatives will never be welcome in the Rotterdam Republican Party as it is controlled right now.  

Gerard's decision to publically air the dirty laundry of a fellow Republican because he fundamentally opposed a taxing district is a permanent scar on the Rotterdam Republicans.  That's why they continue to put up these retreads, they chose to circle the wagons rather than expand their influence.

I hate to burst your bubble bennie, but common ground isn't in the Rotterdam Republican vocabulary.

Socialist REPS? That's another only in Schenectady County. No wonder they can't get any third party endorsements except the WTF Party.

     Real REP/fiscal CONS had to form a new Party NNTP. Expect more of this as the REP implosion continues. Have you heard who the Rott REPS want to run for Supervisor? Talk about retread.

Quoted from tdonovan

He did NOT start a party of his own and sever that election even more. If he HAD done that, you really don't know what the outcome would of been.
It is Always difficult to get volunteers. So I am not sure what your comments mean...

The current Rotterdam Republican Committeepeople are TOO LAZY to start a seperate party to "sever" an election.  That actually means walking door to door and getting signatures.  Republicans just sit and wait for the electorate to get upset at the current Democrat majority, and expect them to vote Republican as the default option.  

If you think RACC workers were the driving force behind the NNTP, it's just more proof that you are in denial about what happened - most were volunteers.  

BTW, it didn't look like it was too difficult for the NNTP to get volunteers.  And to think, you rejected the motivated NNTP candidates that were able to create that type of turnout for a row E candidate.  How many votes did McGarry get for supervisor on Row E?  1700+!

Quoted from benny salami

  No wonder they can't get any third party endorsements except the WTF Party.

They can't get a third party endorsement because they can't find common ground within their own party, what makes a third party think the Republican Party can find common ground with them.  And I don't mean common ground by selling out party principles and the taxpayer, by attempting to create a taxing district through permissive referendum just to get the COPservative endorsement.

Quoted from CICERO

It can't get much bigger than coming just short of endorsing Angelo a Democrat.  Unless of course you mean conservative representation is excluded from the party.  The Rotterdam Reps. represent the liberal/socialist/neo-com area of the political spectrum, not much different than the Democrats.  They'd like us to believe there's a difference, but in reality, there isn't.  Free market, small government conservatives will never be welcome in the Rotterdam Republican Party as it is controlled right now.  

Truer words were never spoken! Until Mertzie is county chair, it will be 'business as usual' for the county reps. Until then, I predict and HOPE there will be third party lines with candidates that are 'free market, small government conservatives'! They are already popping up and gaining support.

As far as the dems........savage and santabarbara took a shameful beating at the polls! It's time for the third party line hopefuls to step up to the schenectady county plate! NOW!

Quoted from CICERO

The current Rotterdam Republican Committeepeople are TOO LAZY to start a seperate party to "sever" an election.  That actually means walking door to door and getting signatures.  Republicans just sit and wait for the electorate to get upset at the current Democrat majority, and expect them to vote Republican as the default option.  

If you think RACC workers were the driving force behind the NNTP, it's just more proof that you are in denial about what happened - most were volunteers.  

BTW, it didn't look like it was too difficult for the NNTP to get volunteers.  And to think, you rejected the motivated NNTP candidates that were able to create that type of turnout for a row E candidate.  How many votes did McGarry get for supervisor on Row E?  1700+!

sorry it was not "laziness" that kept rotterdam republicans from starting their own line party to oust an incumbent. It was actually talked abou and I as well as others felt it was only going to help the dems. Believe it or not but that is the truth.
trust me it was discussed

Quoted from tdonovan

sorry it was not "laziness" that kept rotterdam republicans from starting their own line party to oust an incumbent. It was actually talked abou and I as well as others felt it was only going to help the dems. Believe it or not but that is the truth.
trust me it was discussed

What conservative ideas have local Republicans advanced in the past say -15 years?  Father of Metroplex?  Increase Metroplex cap?  REMS taxing district?  PILOT's for businesses?  

How about your Republican friend Ang?  Baby bottle ban?  Calorie count on menu mandate?  

I'm sure benny and others can add to the list of Republican government programs.

This is why the Republican Party is dead in Schenectady County.  You might as well vote Democrat if you want this kind of pubic policy.

Quoted from CICERO

What conservative ideas have local Republicans advanced in the past say -15 years?  Father of Metroplex?  Increase Metroplex cap?  REMS taxing district?  PILOT's for businesses?  

How about your Republican friend Ang?  Baby bottle ban?  Calorie count on menu mandate?  

I'm sure benny and others can add to the list of Republican government programs.

This is why the Republican Party is dead in Schenectady County.  You might as well vote Democrat if you want this kind of pubic policy.

Angelo was obviously never really a republican if he could of switched THAT easily over to the democratic regime. I cannot speak for any legislation he has sponsored. Although I think the original intention was good, I believe in LESS governemental intervention on every level. True, not ALL republicans are conservative. A prime example of that would be Joe Bruno! Look at his whole "deal" with outlawing small business owners the right to have smoking in their establishments???? How is that for liberal ...against he very people who pay taxes? They cannot have smokers in their taverns? are you kidding me?

So yes,  not all republicans do the "right" thing in terms of their supposed philosphies. Then again, we can ONLY move forward and speak for OURSELVES.

In the future, I would hope that the slate of candidates endorsed by the republican party will toe the line. Is it wise to through out everyone in the party over one issue? I think not....If you are sincere about unity, there will have to comprimises made.