Anonymous Coward Mails Rochester Republicans

The following letter (grammatical mistakes and all) was sent out - anonymously - to many (if not all) Republicans in our Town. A detailed critique will follow shortly, but just one quick observation: anyone who sends out an attack against another individual anonymously is a coward. If you feel your opinion is important enough to disseminate throughout the Town, have the decency, the honor and the guts to sign your name to it. If you don't, your opinion has no value.

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CONCERNED REPUBLICANS IN ROCHESTER

Dear Fellow Republicans,

We're writing to express our deep dismay and disgust over the recent actions of the Rochester Republican Club and to ask you to join us in speaking out against these unfair and disruptive tactics.

They've embarrassed us many times in the past by their bullying and their shouting, screaming, and general disruption at town meetings. Now. they're resorted to using sexually explicit language in their recent postcard to bring attention to their vicious campaign against those who disagree with them.

At the last town board meeting, David O'Halloran and Shane Ricks, the so called leaders of the Republican Club, encouraged what can truly be called a mob to honk their horns, disrupting the meeting and eventually forcing the board to adjourn. What is most disgraceful is that David O'Halloran drove his Mercedes up onto the walkway into town hall to lead this childish car horn honking behavior. Not only did the state police have to call in back up cars, the sheriff's department also was required to stop the disruption.

Why do these characters continue to say they represent Rochester Republicans when, in fact, they don't? They are a small minority of our party, but they are giving us all a bad name.

Their real agenda has always been making money for themselves, plain and simple. David O'Halloran is also large landowner with 1,000 acre ranch ready for development into rows and rows of houses. Honest people of (underlined) both parties in our town government will no longer let him have his way to do whatever he please (sic!). David O'Halloran has often bragged that he's the largest employer in town but he never mentions that he laid off almost all his employees a few days before Christmas. Now, we taxpayers are paying them as many of them are foced to collect welfare benefits.

These actions, especially, the pornographic language used in their postcard mailer do not represent Republican family values. Send them the enclosed postcard and tell them to stop theses counterproductive and disgraceful tactics.

Finally, we wish we could sign our names but we, like many of our town's residents, we're afraid they'll come after us next.