Is Anyone Doing Anything About Richard Beebe’s Violations of NYS Election Law?
A while back Monroerising.com broke the story about County Legislator Richard Beebe’s failure to file the legally required campaign disclosure statements. We also broke the story about how Ted Nixon and Richard Beebe were advertisers on Rochesterturning’s website yet they didn’t report any expense for this advertising.
We contacted the state board but they don’t take complaints without a name and address. We also reported that we could not take the case any futher for personal reasons. I’m wondering if any concerned citizen has filed a complaint with the NYS Board of Elections?
We can’t let this guy get away with sandbagging the public by taking almost $10,000 in campaign donations from special interests and violating the law by not reporting it until we outed him here.
If there is a Republican insider who knows if anything has been done let me know. If nothing has happened, maybe we can recruit someone to file a complaint here on Monroerising.com
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The D&C just today did a report about the financial filings of state elected officials. Maybe one at the county level, and Beebe’s disregard for election law, is coming next. When someone breaks election law, there are fines and judgements involved, but I don’t think they’re filed here locally. Might not be a bad story to break for an interested media reporter.
Hmmm…maybe we should also look into all the disclosure violations of Republican candidates and local Republican committee’s.
For example Dick Yolevich & the Republican Party in Parma failed to file financial disclosures by the deadline throughout the campaign season of 2007.
Many candidates/committee’s fail to file in time - but not many candidates stretch the truth about their official residence so they run for office in a district they really don’t live in - Uh…former legislator Ray DiRaddo - was that apartment in the 6th district really Ray’s “fixed, permanent and principal home” - or was he still living on Olympia Drive?
http://rochesterturning.com/2007/10/23/where-does-ray-diraddo-really-live/
hey changingparma or should I say Two-Vote Joe. My pizza delivery for lunch was late today. Maybe you should shut up and get back to work!
As amused as I am that for some reason the authors, posters and commentors on this blog think that the operator of http://www.changingparma.wordpress.com is Mr. Rittler I must nonetheless dispel that rumor.
Quite frankly I (and the other contributors at CP) aren’t sure how the above mentioned assumption came into being. The authors and operators at Changing Parma are all Parma residents - last time we knew Mr. Rittler is a city dweller. Also, the majority of the posts on Changing Parma are not only of a superior quality than those written on this blog but they are also about Parma politics with some about county politics hardly any at all that even mention Mr. Rittler.
You must be connecting Mr. Rittler’s outspoken campaign against Republican corruption in Parma with some notion that he was a lone voice for change. You are of course mistaken. There are numerous agents for change in Parma, luckily about 6 of those (including Mr. Rittler) change agents have previously chosen to carry the banner of change into electoral politics in both 2006 & 2007…alas however…none of those banner carriers author a single post on CP.
Your simplistic assumptions and character assasination attempts simply validate for the readers the words of John Stuart Mill who said… “Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.”
Who said, “Methinks thou doth protest too much?”
Honestly CP, you cannot truly believe that your calling an elected official a party hack constitutes superior quality. If you actually believe that, as you claim you do, that says very little of your efforts.
I’m not picking a fight with you, just saying that even your side cannot believe that statement.
Also, regarding your initial post:
1. Without having a calendar handy I couldn’t pinpoint what the exact dates were for the filings so I’ll have to take you at your word. The dates seemed so close to my general counts for the filings in Parma to say exactly.
See, what made Dick Beebe’s late filings so easy to spot, is that they weren’t even done when we wrote the article, making them approximately 2 1/2 months late. That’s pretty darn bad.
Also, one can only assume that when he finally got around to following the election law, it was due to our story because he filed within 2 days of it. We actually did him a favor because it could have been way worse.
2. What was done to Ray DiRaddo was borderline stalking and slanderous. So much so that the site you reference actually apologized and said that they believed DiRaddo. You must have missed that part.
At this point, we’re not sure what your vendetta against DiRaddo is for reposting that story. That site ended it. Maybe you should let it go too. They and now you trashed him and dragged him, his wife and kids through the mud just to force him to say that he and his wife are no longer together. Nice job there. Did that make you feel good?
This is the type of personal smear politics that people are sick and tired of on both sides of the aisle, no matter who does it.
Trust me, take some advice from someone who has been around for a long time. Stay away from the overly personal stuff. It’s bad and won’t help you with your cause.
Now it’s true, you guys did end up winning the DiRaddo seat but I don’t believe that was why, so don’t keep going down that path. It’ll make it hard to sleep at night and you won’t be proud of yourself years down the road. The ends do not justify the means.
Just some friendly advice. Take it or leave it.
Either way, welcome and feel free to continue to post here. I’ll assume the invitation is mutual?
Oh, and I think our stuff is better.
If you don’t believe me, just ask me.
First I think the point of my last comment was to dispel the notion that Joe Rittler is the author of CP.
Second…the reason why I even found MR was due to an incoming link to CP that read “I Figured Out Why That Joe Rittler Guy Is So Bitter” - I think it said Peabody on it…so let’s not argue over petty party politics and character assasination.
Third - in the Hack piece about Mr. Yolevich, not one line was personal…unlike your piece on Rittler (again the point of reference for me and MR) which was down right personal…& you’re correct the Hack piece is not our best work…it was more of a bullet point on the long list of lackluster efforts that sum up Mr. Yolevich’s time in the Lej.
Fourth - I rescind my reference to the DiRaddo piece from RT…although I am not sure I believe that he chose Northgate Manor for any reason other than getting a cheap place in the 6th (divorce or not), I admit I used the piece in error (given the details) but meant no disrespect & there is no vendetta (strong accusation on your part though)
Fifth- “This is the type of personal smear politics that people are sick and tired of on both sides of the aisle, no matter who does it.”
I am glad you recognize that, and would urge you to restrain your side from continually practicing that exact kind of campaigning. It is pretty clear to most people that the Monroe GOP is much more often on the giving than the receiving end in those matters.
And finally - “Now it’s true, you guys did end up winning the DiRaddo seat” don’t assume that somone who writes negative posts about the GOP, it’s candidates, elected’s or governing flops is automatically a Dem. Sometimes a person (people) might see a particular party as a vehicle for a political shake up or change but that doesn’t make one a member
Oh an yes the invitation you extend is also extended to you…you’re welcome at CP anytime…
Maybe I shouldn’t stay up so late. Too much time to think about things. Or maybe I’m just getting old and crotchety.
On second thought CP, I think I’m still pretty ticked about how your people treated DiRaddo and his family. You obviously support this kind of nasty tactic or you wouldn’t have posted about it again on our site.
I’m not sure how you Democratic Parma political operatives injected yourselves into the Greece local campaigns, but whether you encouraged this course of action to the Greece Democratic Committee to follow up on, or they enlisted your assistance in carrying this out, either way it stinks.
And if that Rittler kid was indeed ever part of your gang, like it appears he was, then the things people are saying about him must be true. I’ll say now I’m glad he didn’t win in Parma. Who knows what kind of things he’d say and do to people out there just to be mean and to win.
Go ahead and poop on our site all you want. We’ve been seeing a lot of junk like this from your side lately. If people don’t follow your new world order, then you try to personally hurt them. Just plain vicious.
How about this. You go do your thing and we’ll do ours. I’m sure your “agents” as you call them, have enough other investigations to carry out on people in Parma, that you don’t need to be wasting your time with little old us.
If you wanna post here, go ahead.
If you wanna dump on our discussions, go ahead.
If you wanna defend yourselves because of a comment made here, go ahead.
But I’d rather you not keep going after a man whose marriage didn’t work out, for whatever reason. It’s none of your or my business. Let it go buddy.
I’m not the lone wolf here at Monroerising.com making all the decisions, but if you keep up that kind of garbage, my vote’s gonna be to ask you to stay away.
Bottom line. We have Beebe dead nuts cold on his breaking of the election law. We know it, you know it, he knows it and hopefully now his constituents do. They deserve to know what type of individual is representing them in the County Legislature.
CP — do you know if Dick Beebe has made any apologies to his constituents yet? Or if he has a reason for waiting so long to follow the law?
We’re pretty sure he won’t respond to us, but your agents must have “the in.”
Thanks.
M.P.
CP: It looks like our posts overlaped so I’m reading your recent one today.
“Fifth- “This is the type of personal smear politics that people are sick and tired of on both sides of the aisle, no matter who does it.”
I am glad you recognize that, and would urge you to restrain your side from continually practicing that exact kind of campaigning. It is pretty clear to most people that the Monroe GOP is much more often on the giving than the receiving end in those matters.
And finally - “Now it’s true, you guys did end up winning the DiRaddo seat” don’t assume that somone who writes negative posts about the GOP, it’s candidates, elected’s or governing flops is automatically a Dem. Sometimes a person (people) might see a particular party as a vehicle for a political shake up or change but that doesn’t make one a member”
See, you can’t say “don’t assume I’m with the Dems” and write that I must be with the Reps. The two immediately cancel each other out. And just because you feel the Reps do it more, doesn’t mean the Dems can do it, just a little bit less though.
“in the Hack piece about Mr. Yolevich, not one line was personal”
I was referring to the title. It was totally personal.
“I rescind my reference to the DiRaddo piece from RT…although I am not sure I believe that he chose Northgate Manor for any reason other than getting a cheap place in the 6th (divorce or not)”
You almost got there. You can’t know what he or anyone else is thinking about anything. It won’t hurt if you just say, “Ya, I was wrong and I’m sorry.”
I appreciate your coming back to discuss this further. I’m not sure I agree with your counterpoints to your own statements though. To me, it seems that you’re pretending to see my point, but just affirming your original statement. Just my read here.
Sorry for the vendetta statement. It’s just that what was done to DiRaddo, just like if this was done to anyone else, was completely terrible. It really frosted me then and I guess still does today. Had you not brought it up, I wouldn’t have gotten so riled. I don’t know his personal situation, but I do feel bad for him.
I guess I should sometimes just count to 10.
Thanks for the invite CP!
Mr. Peabody,
I won’t comment on the comment that crossed over mine. I get angry sometimes as well and I can understand your displeasure over the DiRaddo issue, blogs are afterall great places to vent.
I do want to mention just two things…
First - The CP Hack Piece revisited -
Definition of Hack from Websters -
hack(2) (n)
1. a person, esp. a professional, who surrenders individual independence, integrity, belief, etc., in return for money or other reward; a political hack. 3. a person who produces banal or mediocre work or who works at a dull or routine task.
The title of the CP post is not personal - it is an entirely appropriate use of the word if one feels it fits Yolevich’s political career - it is a political/work related not personal statement. For an example of a Republican member of the Lej who is not a hack (for the most part-in my humble opinion) see Bob Colby - he was slapped with a loss of committee chairship & $ for voting against his caucus in 06 or 07…he thought independently and was rewarded accordingly…this blogger however has watched Yolevich closely for two years and has not seen any semblance of independent thought or action…in fact during the last campaign Yolevich was quoted (in the MP News) as saying he would vote against the FAIR plan if it in any way took money away from Hilton, Spencerport or Brockport schools…he actually voted for it even though it became clear that the schools would lose money (although the guarantee from Maggie was new State aid - of course she didn’t know that)…so the title of the post in my opinion is appropriate according to the deifinition…you may not feel that it applies to Yolevich but either way it’s not a personal statement.
Back to DiRaddo - when quoting me you left off the most telling part of my comment rescinding my use of that RT piece
“I admit I used the piece in error (given the details) but meant no disrespect & there is no vendetta (strong accusation on your part though)”
Admitting error is akin to saying I am sorry - following that up with I meant no disrespect should have settled it…
thanks