Paladino Rips In To Donn Esmonde

To:                   Donn Esmonde

Copy To:            Everybody

From:               Carl Paladino

Date:                February 24, 2011

Re:                   Your idiocy

            You are bi-polar and the lapdog of Stan Evans and Stan Lipsey. 

You constantly write about how we don't need parking downtown and should support mass transit but you drive to work from North Buffalo everyday and park in your private parking lot on State land set aside specially by the Thruway Authority for Stan Lipsey.

            You go on and on about promoting tourism and the cultural heritage of our area.  Then you insult and attack our largest export partners because one of your bartender friends didn't get a tip. We would not have the Sabres but for our Canadian friends and you certainly don't speak for our community.

            You express total shock and disgust when Chris Lee has a bad day.  You're a hypocrite. You should have learned long ago that those who live in glass houses should not throw stones, because even you have another side which some of us are well aware of. 

            You write over 35 articles bashing Bass Pro, Larry Quinn and the Canal Side plan in our city's only newspaper and dribble on that it's the will of the people when a bunch of do-nothing blowhards bring a frivolous lawsuit against the project. Your short memory blames Bass Pro for backing out when in fact it was the ultimatum of our city's incompetent congressman Brian Higgins and the silly living wage nonsense in City Hall that put Johnny Morris's back to the wall, 30 days out from a final deal. 

            

Why don't you just say to the people that you were instructed by the sneaky and spineless Stan Lipsey to kill the Bass Pro deal because Lipsey doesn't want the project next to his building?  Conflict?  Deja Vous?  It sounds like the domed football stadium deal when Mrs. Butler pushed it out of downtown?  Mark my words that the one-acre hole in the ground 3 stories deep will still be there 10 years from now. 

            Lipsey's career is over.  He's washed up.  He has no legacy.  He now has his ace reporter Jim [the worm] Heaney all in a fluster ordered to defame and write more trash on me.  That's typical Lipsey.  He can't dig himself out of this hole because I don't particularly care what he wants to print and the people see right through it anyhow.  The people in this community despise him and his rag newspaper.

           

           Maybe you should take a break Donn. All the pressures of being the "voice of Buffalo" throughout Buffalo's years of decline must take its toll. Time means nothing to you and you are clueless of what our community needs.  You're on your way out as your paper works its way to extinction.   And by the way, tell Heaney to crawl back under his rock.