I have gotten dozens of calls, two letters and god only knows how many e-mails over Orsini and the money Jack Davis payed to Judy Orsini. $5,000 isn’t chump change to the rest of us, but it’s like pitching pennies in a wishing well to Davis. I have been on the soap box for years about the money Tony gets but the reality is that it all comes from candidates who are stupid enough to give it to him so it’s their own fault if they spent it for nothing.
I really am at the point that I don’t care about any of this and if the other members of the party are crying foul then I have to laugh at them. Most if not all of them were right there with Orsini the last few years getting their share of the hand outs and now that they are out of the loop they cry like stuck pigs. Boo- Fucking- Hoo!!
Well here is the latest from the Buffalo News on the issue.
Davis apologizes for payments to wives of Independence Party leaders
By Robert J. McCarthy - News Political Reporter
Updated: 08/08/08 3:01 PM
The candidate, who has promised to spend $3 million of his own money in his third attempt at winning the seat of retiring Republican Thomas N. Reynolds, said his payments to the wives of Independence Chairment Anthony L. Orsini Jr. of Erie County and Rafael Colon of Monroe County for “consulting” services constituted a “mistake.”
“I am severing my relationships with the consultants in question and apologize for my part in the spectacle,” he said.
Davis and the two chairmen have endured criticism from many quarters since The Buffalo News reported on July 18 that he paid $5,000 to Coastal Consulting South, a newly incorporated firm headed by Orsini’s wife, Judith, out of the couple’s mobile home in Venice, Fla. He also paid $5,000 to Blanca Semidey, wife of Colon, who was forced out of his post by fellow Independence members who called the payments a “bribe.”
The payments came at a time when the often crucial Independence Party nomination was still unsettled.
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