Albany's Insanity

David DiPietro’s statement in response to charges against Volker staffer Harry Wahl

This morning, EastAurora.org published an investigative report by their editor Joe Logan which charges a member of Dale Volker’s Senate staff, Harry Wahl, with possible criminal misconduct.

The story alleges that Wahl made threats against me and my family and to David and Laura Gunner if the Gunners continued to support me for state senator.

Here is the link: http://www.eastaurora.org/article.aspx?artno=831

The article reads in part:
“Gunner went on to detail more of the conversation. “He told my wife, ‘If you are friends with Theresa DiPietro you should start saving her moving boxes, because when I am done with her husband, she will be divorced. He will lose his house and his business.’ Then he told us he had the resources available to make it happen.”
“Initially he thought it was a joke, but soon found out it was not.
“Who was the man that approached him? None other than the Harry Wahl. Wahl is husband of Town of Aurora councilmember Kelly Wahl and an Aurora resident. He is also the Chief of Staff / Director of District Operations for State Senator Dale Volker according to his page on LinkedIn.”

A prior report at NewWNYPolitics disclosed threats made by Republican Party Chair Jim Domagalski that the campaign would get “nasty” if DiPietro did not drop out of the race.

These thug-like tactics are one of the reasons that most citizens refuse to run for office or even get involve in campaigns. This has to stop or we will never be able to reverse our half-century of decline in this region.

I call on Dale Volker to immediately fire Harry Wahl and to condemn the behavior of Jim Domagalski. If this kind of misconduct is allowed to continue, the Republicans will have little chance of retaining control of the state senate.