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Heh. Now we know why part of the reason why Paladino lost... he clearly didn’t hire advisors smart enough to insist on cash up front.
A man should pay his debts; it’s an issue above politics. It goes to character.
Paladino lost and is finished in politics. He has nothing to lose in stiffing people, especially the pricey help these campaigns attract, unless a court says different.
I find it stunning that little Tim was paid $12,000 a month for making a few videos and pretending to be a security guard. He should be grateful to Paladino for paying a year’s worth of his mortgage payments, and for living high off the hog at someone else’s expense, instead of whining it wasn’t enough.
It’s stunning too that fellow Tea Partier Michael Johns couldn’t find enough money in his $12,000 a month salary to pay his expenses.
We all made sacrifices in hopes off seeing some positive changes in NYS government, instead of Cuomo’s window dressing, and I’m certain of at least 10 volunteers who were paid nothing, and were worth far more than little Tim, Michael Johns and Caputo combined.
Half a mil for Caputo? $12,000 a month for just two less than stellar staffers? One has to wonder what everyone else was paid.
And we wonder why the campaign didn’t have enough money to run decent ads.
Tim? He was known as Tim Smith in the campaign, his wife is Diane Thorne who was in charge of scheduling who also worked for most of her years with Roger Stone. They were paid incredible amounts of money. Brought in by Caputo they were told of their salaries before Carl was informed of what they would be paid. Their son was brought in at the beginning of it all and was driving Carl a couple times and the campaign was charged 800 bucks a day, plus hotel stays. When Carl had to sign paychecks is only when he found out what these people were getting paid, he got angry, as did I.... They were all from Florida not from here, we had plenty of people from here willing to volunteer and or work for the campaign for much less money and to be honest could have done a better job.
They were all told if they wanted to continue working for the campaign it would be for much less money. They had a choice and some stayed on at a lesser salary. Tim was hired early on, he drove once and scared the crap out of Carl with his erratic driving. I moved in to the drivers seat and continued for 35,000 miles until the republican hacks came in at the primary and worked to get me and the tea party out. They took over and drove the campaign in to the ground. Put Carl in situations some think to blow his chances of winning. The republicans do not like Carl and worked to keep him out including many big name hacks that are all about protecting their kingdoms.
Michael Johns? Holy crap I cannot believe what he was paid and for what? He was suppose to report to me, he was never around. He was doing what I started out doing but I was more involved in the senior staff and the running of the campaign. He wrote a couple speeches and did some research. When I needed him he was no where to be found. He would call me and all he would do is bitch, moan and complain about everything and saying he should have been brought in earlier. He was supposed to put together a report working with another person with all the tea party, 9-12 groups etal and report back to us. I never got the final report. I was hearing from the person he was supposed to be working with saying he was no where to be found.
In any campaign you are going to find disgruntled people who think they are the only ones that can do a particular job, they have egos that will make you sick to be honest. But for Heaney to search out only these people really tells me that the Buffalo News is only out to GET Carl. Of course Carl is in their face with the billboard on the 190, the articles he is writing about them and sending to thousands. They hate him and will do everything possible to take him down and destroy the support he has here. After all he took 70% of the vote in WNY...
Heaney is an ass, if he had called me as he should have, he would have gotten an earful and the truth. But there will be no truth in any of their articles.