Jasper Nolan: MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT

Rumors and conversations abound that Jasper Nolan is planning a major announcement soon after the November elections.

Sources close to Nolan's close circle of insiders say that he is planning on announcing that he is considering retirement from the powerful chairman's position.

However, the sources say that he must be confused, or doesn't know what the current year is.
They say he will announce his retirement and will indeed retire very soon, in 2020 or sooner if he can no longer fog a mirror.

Claiming that he deserves to be chairman as long as he is healthy, he cites the chairman he replaced. He said the chairman he replaced served until he was diagnosed with brain cancer and that Nolan will stay on as long as his health allows.

Thus, Nolan's mental confusion and belief that he is chairman for life seemingly has not changed.

Where are the reporters, no, where are the GOP committeemembers who care?

Bill "Ray" Casey loses huge

Just a follow-up on the recent Bill Casey loss.

His rumored campaign chairman was none other than Dale Kelley. Mr. Kelley's last campaign also resulted in a loss when he managed the 2007 CP Town Justice race.

Note to self: Don't hire Dale if you want to win an election.

Bruno Convicted

As predicted, Joe Bruno has been convicted and if sentencing guidelines are followed he will likely serve time in jail.

Next to fall will be Saratoga County chairman John "Jasper" Nolan who will face increasing scrutiny for potential ethical transgressions.

Stay tuned for more solid reporting from inside the beast.

Please keep your comments coming, your support has been fabulous.

Bruno should worry about JAIL, not the State GOP Chairman

It's time for ole Joe to say goodbye to public life and politics.

Joe Bruno should be getting his personal affairs in order before his trial and possible JAIL sentence.

Joe, stop worrying about the state GOP Chair, just shut up and go away - you helped put the GOP in the current sorry state. Go away, nobody cares what you think except your butt boy Jasper Nolan and his days are numbered.

TOP Republican challenges Jasper Nolan for Top Spot

The Clifton Park Town Highway Superintendent is telling people today that a public figure has openly challenged Jasper Nolan's leadership in the County.

In an ironic twist of fate, this person was once given a high level "patronage" job at OGS by Nolan but apparently even Nolan couldn't help keep this person's job when he mysteriously was rumored to have "moved on".

Nolan also recently supported this former town offical and assigned him the task of leading a "coalition" along with planning board chairman Steve Bulger and Town Republican Chairman Bob Wilcox. Their mission was to get Nolan cronies to join the town committee to get enough votes to oust the former chairman who never lost a GOP seat in town and was threatening Nolan's "County Chairman for Life" status.

These 3 Coalition leaders got 12 cronies to be appointed by Nolan and vote Wilcox into the leadership post and for that Wilcox was rewarded with a County Attorney's patronage job and the other two became Nolan butt boys preserving Nolan's leadership and contributing to more high profile Republican election losses recently which now threaten the party's long held dominance in the county.

The person pictured above and named by the Highway Superintendent is Dale Kelley. The information we received was that Kelley would resign from Nolan's county committee and join the town Democrats in supporting their Democrat candidate for town supervisor thus threatening Nolan's county GOP majority on the board of Supervisors.

We learned also that it's possible that a former Columbia County Democrat Chairman, posing as a Jasper Nolan Republican on the CP town Committee and very (very) close ally of Clifton Park's other town Supervisor Anita Daly is also interested in Nolan's job as county boss. However they plan to switch Daly's registration to the Democratic Party (ala Arlen Specter), challenge the Veitch seat in the Spa City with a Dem candidate and attempt to switch the county to Democratic majority dominance.

Many GOP County workers along with Nolan could possibly be thrown out on their rears - ironically, thanks to Nolan's buffoonery, along with his coaliton in Clifton Park, proving that the biggest threat to the GOP in Saratoga was Nolan himself.

So Who are these Nolan Coalition members?

Anita Daly openly campaigned for Kristen Gillibrand and is rumored to be waiting to switch her registration to Democrat to help create a position for a Democrat County Committee Chairman...

Marty Torrey, former County Democrat Boss turned CP Republican Committee man with his eyes on another County Chairman post, this time in Saratoga, was also an open supporter and contributor to Hillary Clinton.

Neil Weiner, former Vice Chairman of the town GOP committee and current member and CPWA (Patronage) attorney, had to switch his enrollment FROM being a Democrat.

Is this starting to look like a Trojan Horse?

All these Clifton Park Coaliton members made the decision to drink the Nolan Kool-Aid and it's killing the Republican Party -

The Democrats are thrilled with their allies, a.k.a. the Clifton Park "coalition".

MAY 15: JASPER'S LAST STAND

The Women's Republican Club Dinner will be held Friday May 15 at the Saratoga City Center.



Jasper has chosen his Master of Ceremonies for the event and will also award her the Young Republican of the year.

The recipient, pictured to the Left, is Elaine Kelly.

She and Jasper are continually invigorating the party and are bringing new technologies to the campaigns. Elaine's recogniton is partly because she restarted the YR's of Saratoga and feel they will be quite successful networking at the local Elks's Bingo nights.







Not to be forgotten, Chris Callaghan will be at the head table honored for dancing on the Tom Lewis Grave and given the award for "opportunist of the year" for kissing Jasper's behind hoping and praying Jasper will allow him to be his personal pawn and replacement as Chairman when Jasper turns 80 and Callaghan turns 70.





So much for change. So much for new blood. So much for out with the old and in with the new.





The Saratoga GOP is hell bent on continuing their failures and promoting cronies and older white men with no electoral successes.





JASPER NOLAN, PICUTRED TO THE LEFT,
will continue to lead the Saratoga GOP into the toilet as his losses pile up like manure on a horse farm.

The absolute cowardice of people standing up and demanding his resignation CONFIRMS that the GOP is dead in Saratoga as the total absence of leadership has allowed Nolan to continue his failed campaigns.

The pile of manure on Nolan's resume is phenomenal and the lack of media scrutiny into his unethical organization is bizarre.

R.I.P. Saratoga County Republicans -

Jasper Nolan resignation petition circulated

Saratoga Politics has been sent the text of the Jasper Nolan "petition" rumored to be circulating by hand and e-mail in Saratoga County.

Potential "signers" are being asked to print out a copy and pass it on to other like thinking party reformers who want to modernize the party.

The person who leaked the letter to the Saratoga Politics Blog intimated (hinted) that everyone will be encouraged to talk about the petition at functions until it creates the necessary mass and momentum to actually get Nolan to retire.

People have been intimidated by Nolan in the past and are hesitant to "go on the record" and realize that Nolan will not retire without being "pushed out" thus the petition was created to start the process of reform in a respectful fashion.


An Open Letter to Chairman Nolan

Dear Chairman,

Last week, Saratoga County Republicans experienced another round of unexpected losses. Following years of setbacks in Republican strongholds, we saw the upset defeat of our city court candidate in Saratoga Springs, while Barack Obama carried our county and the party's hand-picked Congressional candidate lost it by the largest margin in memory.

The results of the 2008 elections were a clear warning. The ability of a liberal Democrat like Barack Obama to win countywide is the clearest testament to date of the failings of our current leadership and the collapse of our credibility with the voters of Saratoga County. Next year, we will undoubtedly face a Democrat effort unlike any we have seen before. Emboldened by their victories, with greater resources and newer technologies at their disposal, we can expect the Democrats to launch serious efforts against virtually all of our Republican candidates on the 2009 ballot.

For our own survival, we believe it is imperative that the county party come under new leadership. We need a chairman capable of putting forth a new strategy to reverse our fortunes and to withstand this onslaught. We need a chairman who can adapt our organization to utilize emerging technologies and to respond to the changes our county is undergoing. Most importantly, we need a chairman who can renew the image of the Republican Party in the eyes of the voters.

We make this statement with the utmost respect for your years of service and the many victories you have led us to in years past, and we know that you share the same commitment to guaranteeing the future of the Republican Party in Saratoga County.

Jasper Nolan takes GOP to new lows

After a huge defeat on election night it has become clear that Jasper Nolan will have to be replaced.

Nolan couldn't even win a race for dog catcher, especially after losing what should have been a lay-up victory for Spa City Court Judge.

It's hard to waste much more time on Nolan - he's an embarrassment.

Jasper Nolan says he will RETIRE based on race outcome

The quiet whispers are now being heard more loudly and more frequently at Republican county and town rallies in Saratoga County.

Jasper Nolan will retire if he cannot win the Treadwell race decisively. He has set a goal for the campaign and his organization.

If Treadwell does not win by a margin of 55% to Gillibrand's 45% ( or better) Nolan has indicated he will step down on election night.

This might explain why the RSVP's for the election night rally have grown from a handful to hundreds.

It is thought that potential replacements for county chairman will be working the room garnering support and testing the waters.

LeRoy elected at illegal meeting

Well known Community Organizer and metrosexual, Marvin LeRoy was elected Vice-Chairman of the Rogue Clifton Park Republican Committee last week at an illegal meeting. Chairman and Chief Dunce, Bob Wilcox apparently didn't study reading comprehension at law school as the committee by-laws and NYS Election law clearly state that committee reorganization votes are to be held within 20 days after the party primary.

A new meeting has been scheduled for September 17th at THE VISTA whereby Wilcox will again cheerlead for the election of LeRoy, who many believe has only one qualification to be a committee officer, he holds a patronage public payroll position just like all the other committee officers.

Linda McNab tied to Patronage Scandal !

This tip was forwarded to us by Times Union Blogger "qualified" and it tells the story of the Clifton Park GOP - They are in it for personal profit and nothing more.

Here's the post:


I’ve heard about The rogue group of Clifton Park Republicans called THE CULT.
They worship at the alter of Pagan Patronage, Government Payrolls and their Cult Leader, Jasper Nolan who helps them find opportunities to profit from taxpayer funds.

Linda McNab, the bleached blonde gum-snapping Treasurer of this rogue Clifton Park GOP Committee is a GOP State Representative (Nolan Puppet) and low and behold her son just so happens to get paid by the committee and the taxpayers….WHAT A SURPRISE!

McNab, Keith B Senate Senate Regular Annual Albany Data Services Mngr BiWeekly $1,879
Source: http://www.seethroughny.net/Payrolls/PayrollDetail/tabid/87/Default.aspx?PAYROLLDATAID=143930

Keith McNab also receiving expenditures from THE CLIFTON PARK REPUBLICAN COMMITTEE
$250 documented here: http://www.elections.state.ny.us:8080/reports/rwservlet?cmdkey=efs_sch_report+p_filer_id=C21135+p_e_year=2007+p_freport_id=F+p_transaction_code=F
The members of this Cult have no interest in Republican ideals or winning elections, they are in it:
FOR THEMSELVES AND FAMILY MEMBERS TO PROFIT ON GOVERNMENT PATRONAGE PAYROLLS.

$45,096 per year with great benefits, that’s what this group of self-interested cultists are all about.

Want to solve the state budget crisis, simple, eliminate the patronage hacks, but then Jasper Nolan’s dysfunctional county GOP committee would have NO MEMBERS.

Clifton Park GOP endorses Roy McDonald for Senate

More Info at: http://cpgop.blogspot.com/

Renewed calls for Jasper Nolan to Retire

With Bruno's retirement, SaratogaPolitics is getting deluged with Saratoga GOP committee member e-mails suggesting it's long overdue for County GOP Chairman John "Jasper" Nolan to announce his retirement.

Bruno Retires; Saratoga GOP going downhill fast

Saratoga GOP future is now certain....downhill fast.

Clifton Park GOP Committee DEAD. Rebirth deal afoot.

Months after Bob Wilcox destroyed the credibility of The Clifton Park Republican Committee and made it totally irrelevant in town politics there is a move afoot to rebuild the party.

First reported here, the town elected officials have reportedly offered a solution to help this committee work to regain their trust and begin the long road to becoming an important player in town politics.

There are many proposals but they all involve a complete reorganization at the executive committee level. The agreement being offered is that serious discussions can begin after Bob Wilcox, pictured above, Hugh Burke and Linda McNab agree to resign their executive committee posts.

Once that occurs, the town board will work to establish a new committee leadership team and will agree to help the committee regain the success they enjoyed in the previous years.

Sounds like a positive step, we'll report back if the committee members agree to the first steps on the road to recovery.

The other priority "issue" was that anyone who wants to continue with the nasty stealth group named "the coalition" will also have to agree to resign from the town GOP committee.

For the sake of the Republican Committee up there everyone hopes they agree to work with their elected leaders.

Republican Supervisor Daly endorses Democrat Gillibrand for Congress

In a stunning break from the Republican Party, Clifton Park Supervisor Anita Daly has "endorsed" the Democratic candidate for Congress, Kirsten Gillibrand, by using highly favorable comments in Sunday's Times Union. This is probably not "formal" but in politics perception becomes reality.

Insiders are not surprised, just last month Republican Clifton Park Chairman Bob Wilcox teamed with Daly to attend a Clifton Park Town Board meeting at the behest of a former Columbia County Democratic Chairman and Daly political advisor.

At that meeting and in an e-mail from Wilcox, the rogue Town GOP Committee actually "disowned" their Republican elected officials in Clifton Park.

People are now saying that Daly and Wilcox are now choosing to buck County Republicans and Congressional candidate Sandy Treadwell and through the media derail the Treadwell campaign and give the media favorable quotes and press releases regarding Gillibrand.

People familiar with Wilcox & Daly say they have pushed for higher water taxes in Saratoga County and have embraced the Democratic Party and will work to destroy the local Republican organization in the town and county.

The Vice-Chairman in Clifton Park, Neil Weiner is said to also be a trojan horse and was once a Democrat enrolled party member before plotting to take over the town and county.

Stay tuned as documents are pouring in that indicate Daly and Wilcox have been big supporters of other liberal Democrats in the past as well.

Here are the DALY QUOTES from the Sunday June 15 Times Union article:

Anita Daly, a Clifton Park county supervisor and Republican, says Gillibrand has been "very helpful and supportive" with several initiatives, including a $67 million water project in Saratoga County.
Daly calls Gillibrand "a very hardworking public official who, in my eyes, has been very dedicated to working for the people who put her in office."
Other lawmakers were "always cooperative" and gave her "time" whenever she called with a request, Daly said. "But what I do see Kirsten Gillibrand doing is truly reaching out to the constituents on a level to understand their needs and try to build whatever she can to (help them) grow their own communities in a way they so choose to do."
"She's not at all approaching her public work with any agenda of her own," Daly continued.

CP GOP Secretary Linda McNab called on her blatant LYING

In a stinging reprimand. Clifton Park's Republican Committee was told to stop lying to the residents and causing further embarrassment to the Republican Party. The spanking came in the form of a rebuttal letter to the editor of The Community News and proved McNab a liar.

Ms. McNab wrote a public "official" letter on behalf of the committee at the direction of the flailing chairman, Bob Wilcox. In the letter, laced with lie after lie, she manufactured fantasies to attempt to embarrass the town board. Instead, she embarrassed herself, Wilcox and the committee which authorized her poison penmanship.
Wilcox has now exhausted any and all credibility of his rogue executive committee might have had.

The Committee has become a laughing stock after Wilcox was told to take the reigns and his marching orders from his patron, the county boss Jasper Nolan.

If Ms. McNab continues writing lies for Wilcox there are talks of taking Wilcox and the executive committee to court for libelous mischaracterizations.

Just what the already embarrased lawyer Wilcox needs, more bad press for his amateur directives and mismanagement of the committee from the start.

In further news, people are quitting his rogue committee in numbers never before seen in that town.

REPORT: Saratoga GOP Treasurer resigns amid SCANDAL

Wilcox embarrasses GOP Community

Photo to left is one of the rogue executive committee members. In this case it's disgraced treasurer Hugh Burke who TV 13 reported ADMITTED using taxpayer paid for county attorney office equipment to run his political operation.



05/16/2008
Republican Committee renounces council members
By:GLENN GRIFFITH Community News


Story Link http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=19697109&BRD=1668&PAG=461&dept_id=7135&rfi=6


CLIFTON PARK - The town's Republican Party Committee May 9 renounced four of five Town Council members in a brief and succinct press release saying they no longer spoke for, or represented, the Republican party.All five members of the town board are members of the Republican Party. The four renounced were supervisor Philip Barrett, councilwoman Lynda Walowit and councilmen Tom Paolucci and Scott Hughes.

The notification by the Clifton Park Republican Committee states the four were renounced for failing to show up to a committee meeting where they were expected to explain recent actions. The press release was unsigned but listed town Republican Party Chairman Robert Wilcox as the contact person.

Town Republican Party Committee vice chairman and committee communications director Adam Kramer disapproved of the action, calling it a hasty maneuver, counter productive, and a potentially suicidal move. He said he was sick and tired of divisions within the local party's ranks. Kramer was out of town on a family vacation when notice of the action was released. "If I had been given the courtesy of a heads-up as to the committee's actions before-hand, I would have strongly counseled against such a counterproductive move," he said. "I understand emotions have run very high, but this serious action should not have been done in such haste. It was not the right thing to do and I strongly disagree with it."

Requests to Kramer and Wilcox for a tally of the commit tee's vote to renounce the four party members were unsuccessful. Each political party in Clifton Park is allowed two committee members for each of the town's 34 election districts.The committee's action comes two weeks after the four Town Board members unanimously appointed John Ryan to the Clifton Park Water Authority's Board of Directors. The four refused a request from absent fellow board member Sanford "Sandy" Roth to table the appointment.Roth returned to the board April 28 and reprimanded the four for failing to allow others to be interviewed for the water authority appointment.

This is not the first time the Clifton Park Republican Committee has turned on one of its own. In the early 1980s, Kevin Dailey was ousted from the party. He was subsequently elected supervisor with support from the town's Democrats. What Griffith doesn't add is that it was some of the same politically deaf, dumb and blind players who were involved then as now - namely Linda McNab, Elaine Kelly, Bob Wilcox, and Jasper Nolan - proving the definition of insane is correct as they expect different results from the same bone-headed hate filled decisions. Dailey remains VERY popular and his crime? It was creating THE CLIFTON COMMON the most popular recreation park in the REGION.


In the late 1990s, incumbent Walowit was victorious in a primary to determine who would run for office under the Republican banner in the general election.Reaction from the four board members to the committee's actions ranged from muted to humorous.

Barrett had little to say. "It is what it is and we'll move forward," he said. "I wasn't contacted to be at the meeting. I wasn't told to be there or else, or told you should be there."Barrett said he did not know of anyone else ever being renounced by their political party's committee for missing a meeting.

Walowit said she and the other board members were asked to attend illegal meetings and to support financial contributors to the party. "Now they've reached the core of having to explain to the people of Clifton Park why we're being punished," she said. "If Mr. Roth had shared our concerns about water, the people who came to the April 21 meeting wouldn't have bothered coming."

Paolucci said he was proud to be a Republican, one who believes in small, fiscally responsible government that can improve the quality of life for the town's citizens. He noted the present administration's fiscal record of retaining the no town tax policy."I am dismayed that a small group of local Republican leaders have determined that they can undermine the governmental process in Clifton Park by threatening political support in exchange for votes that forward their agenda," he said.

WILCOX NEEDS A LOOONG TIMEOUT - A RETIREMENT PARTY

"Bob Wilcox's statement and actions are very much like that of a small child throwing a temper tantrum when things do not go their way, and then picking up their toy truck and stomping home, stating if you don't play by my rules then you won't play at all," Paolucci said.Paolucci believes Wilcox is under pressure from county Republicans to deliver a signed contract from the Clifton Park Water Authority to buy water from the county. He called he county water expensive and something the town doesn't need.

Like Walowit, Hughes said he was asked to attend meetings he believes contradict the state's Sunshine Laws. Wilcox, Hughes said, speaks for a small minority on the town's Republican committee.He described Wilcox and others on the committee who supported the renouncment as the gang that can't shoot straight.

"Bob Wilcox does not get to choose who is and is not a Republican," Hughes said. "I'm proud of the record I'm creating in support of the citizens of Clifton Park. Bob Wilcox is having a temper tantrum because he can't control the Town Board through political pressure.

He thinks he's Boss Tweed and Clifton Park is Tammany Hall."Hughes said when Wilcox was elected committee chairman of the town Republican Committee, he promised everyone would have a voice. "Now it seems the executive committee seems intent on doing things in back rooms," he said. "I refuse to compromise my support for open ethical government."

Clifton Park officials may offer GOP a "deal" they can't refuse

Sources in Clifton Park are suggesting that the elected officials may be working on a deal with the Clifton Park Republican Party to re-establish a partnership broken by the new Chairman, Wilcox.

Details are still not clear but there is quite a bit of talk that there are a number of issues that the Party Executive Commmittee would have to agree to.

Sources who have seen a "draft" copy think that the number one agreement, which is listed as #1 on the paper, is that the Chairman, Wilcox, would have to agree to step aside and off the executive committee.

This would seem obvious as Wilcox could not possibly put the genie back into the bottle of his fatal pronouncement/press release.

#2 similarly would be the quiet resignations of the treasurer and secretary of the committee. Although both sides would stay silent on these 3 departures they must occur in 30 days.

#4 was to allow the current two Vice-Chairmen to serve as co-acting chairmen until the new executive committee could run as a team.

#5 Immediate cessation of volunteer board members from engaging in politics either at town hall meetings or lurking in the shadows as a puppet for county interests.

#6 Take County Chairman Jasper Nolan at his "word" that he has no influence or involvement in local committee activities and he signs an agreement to that effect.

#7 Committee takes the official position that this year should be Nolan's LAST year as County Chairman, time for new blood.

There were 10 in all but the source could not see the second page.

All in all, this sounds like the reasonable approach to mending the fences and moving forward from what everyone admits has been a disasterous last 6 months.

Stay tuned as we will report if the Clifton Park GOP takes these common sense actions or continues to be a public circus.