Narcissists Don’t Listen
The next time this guy “listens” will be the first.
To rebut his anticipated attacks, I don’t do business with the County of Erie, I don’t derive any income from the County of Erie in any way, I do not work for – nor am I on the payroll of – Mark Poloncarz, I am not a contractor for or otherwise retained by the Poloncarz campaign, etc. I am not an ECDC Committee member, nor a member of any local Democratic committee. I do not owe my job to Mark Poloncarz or Jeremy Zellner or any other political person or entity. I am a private citizen who has known Poloncarz for about 18 years and who has also had dealings with Nate McMurray over the last five or so.
I think it’s definitely important for politicians to listen, but it’s more important for them to think. To have humility. Humor. To have empathy and have a capability of seeing things in different ways. I know Poloncarz has those abilities. His opponent does not.
In the last 5 or so years, I have given McMurray much more of my time and money than I have to Poloncarz, which honestly isn’t saying much. I’m older and it’s not 2006. As to McMurray, I regret every nanosecond and every penny. It was wasted on someone who fixates on a daily compendium of Quixotic battles with enemies real and perceived. (Usually, perceived until he gets going, then they’re real).
Never had I heard from an adult public figure such a broad but shallow collection of grievances and victimhood. Want a well-documented example? Here you go. How many times, and how many different ways, can this intemperate man scream about all the people who supposedly won’t help him and are, thereby, out to get him?
Literally I cannot think of one Democrat whom he has badmouthed – in public or private – who has not at least begrudgingly lent to him their vocal and financial support. Kathy Hochul, Mark Poloncarz, Jeremy Zellner, Brian Higgins – all of his many bêtes noires have dutifully lined up to get people to vote for him and to give him money. He thanks them by hurling at them an endless reserve of rhetorical feces, e.g., getting his surrogates to demean hard-working campaigners for other candidates as “errand girls” and the like. Heaping scorn and derision on Kevin Hardwick for being an ex-Republican when Nate himself relied on under-employed fascist convicted vote fraudster Rus Thompson to get him elected to the one government post he ever held, in a town where you have to cross a bridge and pay a toll to get to a hospital.
As an aside, you know to whom I owe an apology? Natalie Baldassarre. She and her family were right all along and they had his number when the rest of us were too busy thinking there was something there.
The endorsement process should be amusing.