In the elections of November, 2000 Roy
Goodman was defeated for reelection by a Democrat.( State) SENATOR ROY GOODMAN: THE EPITOME OF POLITICAL EVIL! (Picture of the snake himself [ now senile] added on January 21, 2006).
New York State Senator Roy Goodman (R., ) inherited his wealth from "Ex-Lax", appropriately so. He always has a smile on his face and a knife in your back.
He inveigled me to run for Governor in 1990 and I did it willingly because I was naive enough to believe that he would support me if I got the Republican nomination. He engineered that nomination with the assistance of the Chairman ( Pat Barrett) of the New York Republican party. One Jack Kemp, brainless wonder of the conservative party, refused the nomination.
After I was unanimously acclaimed as the candidate (no one else would accept the nomination ) Senator Goodman immediately stuck a knife into my back. When the media asked him where he got my name (since I was not a professional politician) his answer did me in:
"I found it on my Rolodex".
That fresh and stupid remark haunted me throughout the entire campaign. The truth of the matter was that I had known and socialized with Roy Goodman for about ten years prior to the nomination. Roy Goodman had been to dinner parties in my house at least a dozen times. I had been his guest at the "Century Country Club ( a restricted Jewish club)" of which he was a member. He used to call me occasionally regarding the outlook for the economy. More than once I was the guest of one Larry Leeds at the Century Country Club along with Roy Goodman. Since I lived in his district (the "silk stocking" district) I had donated modest amounts of money to his election campaigns and he always personally thanked me.
That vicious remark, "I found it on a Rolodex", was as bad as the stupid remark Dwight David Eisenhower made about Richard Nixon in 1960 when the media asked him if Nixon had ever done anything while he was Vice-President. Eisenhower said "If you give me a few minutes I may be able to think of something". That hurt Nixon enormously throughout the 1960 Presidential campaign of Nixon against Jack Kennedy as did the Rolodex remark hurt me.
I was in my room at the Convention site meeting with two delegates to the convention about the platform along with my political advisor (Eddie Mahe) when Roy Goodman burst into the room and demanded to know why he was not invited to the meeting and then made an incredible statement. At the top of his lungs he said
"We are running this campaign. you cannot have a meeting that I don't attend and we make all the decisions regarding campaign strategy. You are not running this campaign. We are . You do what you are told and you do nothing on your own. We make the campaign decisions, not you!".
Naturally I told him where he could go. From then on there was a state of war between myself and Roy Goodman and that war lasted throughout the campaign. Roy Goodman did not want me or anyone else to win the Governorship because that would have put me in power over him and the rest of the Republican party.
He wanted me to lose and he did everything in his power to cause me to lose. He didn't care one iota about winning, he just wanted to make sure that his power base remained intact.
I was, therefore, a goat being lead to slaughter and I was supposed to go along quietly and enjoy the bloodshed!
"Losing" was the name of his game because losing kept him in power!
I could go on but this is enough.
Roy Goodman is still in the Senate of the state of New York, still doing his damage, still feathering his own nest, still playing a filthy game of politics to a faretheewell. He is, in my book, the epitome of all that is wrong in politics and all that is evil in politics.
He has zero ethics, is a first class phoney, has no morality whatsoever, lies, cheats, is willing to stab anyone in the back who sands in his way and all the time he has a smile on his face!. He smiles to your face, puts his arm around you and then he slips the stiletto into our back.
I am going to end with a quotation from a letter that I received from an old friend, Orrin Hatch, Junior Senator from Utah regarding my campaign for Governor of New York:
These are the backgrounds of prominent people I have known. The backgrounds may be incomplete or they may be wrong. I am working from memory and the backgrounds I give you are from my personal (not book) knowledge. This is their backgrounds as I knew them. I have not checked out the details and the backgrounds are incomplete but they do jell with my knowledge of them and my experiences with them.
