Between Roger Stone, Guilderland politics, income taxes, and the cold weather, Warren Redlich has had enough. Reid Epstein of Newsday reports:
Warren Redlich, the Libertarian Party ‘s 2010 candidate for New York governor, said he is moving to Florida because of fliers that attacked him during last fall’s campaign. As a result, he said he won’t seek public office again until his children graduate from high school.
Redlich, a Guilderland Town board member, said a flier that circulated upstate the Friday before the election called him a “public danger” who advocated sex with underage girls. He said it drove him out of politics…
He added: “Maybe Florida state assembly in 2024.”
…Redlich said he has taken and passed the Florida Bar exam and plans to move his family this summer, likely to Palm Beach County.
Redlich plans to resign his position on the Guilderland town board. Other prominent third party politicos who have fled to the Sunshine State include former US Senator Robert Smith of New Hampshire (who considered a Constitution Party run for the presidency in 2000) and NY Independence Party founder Tom Golisano. In addition, Peter Schiff (son of prominent Libertarian Irwin) is considering a move from Connecticut to sunnier beaches.
And Roger Stone has an office in Ft. Lauderdale.
Oh, please.
The Palm Beach sheriff’s office now watching Warren Redlich very very carefully given his history of lusting after under-age girls on-line.
Dr. Tom Stevens // Apr 19, 2011:
“The only part of the flyer I felt violated the “actual malice” standard was when it told people to “Call The Police” if they saw Warren Redlich’s face on the street………..”
[Lake: only part of the gun shot I felt violated the assault / murder standard was the ball of molten lead flying thru the air near the speed of sound …………..]
And you do not think potential LPs are filing this non adult behavior away ‘up stairs’ ??????????
Warren Redlich has sued Carl Paladino and Kristin Davis, as well as Roger Stone, for defamation.
Roger Stone responds by saying you should keep Redlich away from your pets and small farm animals.
Full Story at:
http://drtomstevens.blogspot.com/2011/08/warren-redlich-nylps-2010-gubernatorial.html
Reid Epstein of Newsday reports:
“Warren Redlich, the Libertarian Party ‘s 2010 candidate for New York governor, said he is moving to Florida because of fliers that attacked him during last fall’s campaign.”
Those flyers identified him throughout the state as being a “Sexual Predator” and the Newsday article says that the resulting damage to his character, which neither Redlich nor Axinn consider worth suing over, damaged the chances the NYLP had of obtaining the 50,000 votes needed this past election.
Add that to the fact that the allegations over a rigged nominating process alienated half the NYLP, who sat on their hands during the election or supported Davis, who got 20,000 votes, and destroyed the chance we had to bring a united party into the election.
I am saddened to see my friend and candidate Warren Redlich move from New York and wish his wife Heather, him and their children much happiness and success in their new home.
Not only did Warren run the most successful campaign for Governor in the 40-year history of the LPNY, but he also did it with style and dignity, never waivering from his support for libertarian principles and smaller government.
Warren will be speaking Saturday morning, April 30 at the LPNY Convention in Babylon, NY (info at http://www.ny.lp.org). I hope that many of you can attend and thank Warren as will I for such a great 2010 campaign.
I believe the “figment” of my “imagination” resided in the Imagination exhibit of EPCOT Center in Orlando, Florida. I really did like Figment.
I guess I must have been in error. When the flyer came out, I could have sworn the Redlich campaign called it defamatory and promised to file suit after the election was over since the statute of limitations is one year. In fact, Mark Axinn inquired about the extent of the “publication” in anticipation of such a suit but if Redlich now says he never promised such a suit, I am pretty sure some equivocation on his actual words could now be interpretted as not being quite a “promise”.
I believe Stone lives in Fort Lauderdale, not Miami Beach. Stone is not the reason I’m leaving NY, but he certainly is a big reason why I’m not running for office again.
I don’t recall promising to commence a defamation lawsuit. Sounds like yet another figment of Stevens’ imagination.
If this report is true, then it will please many New York State Libertarians who thought Redlich’s gubernatorial campaign message of “Stop Wasting Money” did not effectively inform voters regarding the libertarian political philosophy Redlich was supposed to represent.
Regarding the flyer, I have been asking for months when Redlich was going to file his promised defamation lawsuit against the people who called him a Sexual Predator. The NYLP Chair Mark Axinn says the LP is not going to join in any lawsuit and Redlich has not filed it. Is it because the flyer wasn’t defamatory as Roger Stone contested.
The only part of the flyer I felt violated the “actual malice” standard was when it told people to “Call The Police” if they saw Warren Redlich’s face on the street.
I thought that was hilarious! Encouraging people to call the cops whenever they saw Redlich’s mug — but despite the humor, that statement might be actionable because they knew Redlich was not a wanted man and that simply showing his face in public was no public danger – as far as we know.
Ha, that’s rich. Doesn’t he realize that Roger Stone lives in Miami Beach?
Welcome to Florida, Warren. There is no state income tax here and we aim to keep it that way.