A while back I received this comment pertaining to an alleged affair which took place a long time ago.
Now most of you tend not to worry about your sewer until something goes wrong.
But on Delaware Liberal, some comments regarding the all important character issue surrounding both Coons and Gordon has come full circle. Here are some of the comments lifted up….
Or, perhaps more simply, ask him why he was spying on her with night vision goggles. Ask him why Freebery rammed his car with hers in his driveway one night. Ask him why the threat of exposure of said affair sent him scrambling for extra settlement money for Sharon Hughes.
please remind him that he can clear up any misconceptions about his affair(s) by simply releasing the transcripts of the FBI tapes
The can of worms is opened…. Is or is not the Freeberry- Gordon connection still alive and thriving? Is or is not, the Freeberry- Gordon connection part of the increase in spending ($300,000) being blamed by Gordon on Coons? Where are the tapes and why have we not heard them if Gordon is as innocent as some of his supports portend?
This is one area where I do not have the answers. Those who do, need to put up or shut up…… But our County Government is too important to give to someone just for the reasons of personnel revenge, if that is Gordon’s motive after all?
If there is any defense of Gordon’s actions when he was with his former protege Freeberry, it needs to be posted here, right now. Otherwise, the election is Coon’s to loose…… for the simple reason we just can’t afford the uncertainty. Goons of both sides: put up…or shut up.
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August 26, 2008 at 8:04 pm
Al Mascitti
In the interest of keeping the record straight, the $300,000 I cited was spent during the Gordon years (I was rounding upwards a bit). According to the federal indictment — all supported by tape recordings and sworn testimony — Gordon/Freebery spent $268,000 to settle the Sharon Hughes sexual harassment complaint against councilman Chris Roberts; the original offer was $16,000, which was rapidly increased when Hughes’ attorney, the former state AG Dick Weir (sp?), reported that he was in possession of a tape recording, left on an answering machine by Sherry Freebery, that would “blow the lid off” the county. If you want to be charitable, that’s $252,000 in hush money.
That sum does NOT include the pay of county employees who manned the phone bank that was set up at Sherry Freebery’s home to help elect Patty Powell and Bill Tansey.
The rest of the sum I mentioned was spent by the administration to hire a Washington law firm specifically to quash the News Journal investigation into Freebery’s gift/loan from Lisa Dean Moseley (unfortunately, that bid was successful — more evidence that TNJ has never been “out to get” Gordon). I’ve seen the cost of that little stunt (defended by Freebery as necessary for people to maintain their trust in government, ironically enough) at $25,000 to $35,000.
The tapes, and transcripts of them, have been under seal for several years. As far as I’m aware, no news organization has asked to have them unsealed, and they could be unsealed provided Mr. Gordon allows them to be.
August 27, 2008 at 2:23 am
anon
If the tapes are as you say, why didnt the NJ go after them? If they are underseal how do you know Al the facts?
August 28, 2008 at 10:13 am
kavips
anon
The facts of which Al speaks, are in the realm of public domain.
What is under seal,…. is the contents of that message left on the answering machine. Obviously if that tape is worth $252,000, one should think twice before voting for Gordon during the primary.
Absolutely.
Since not one of the numbers of defensive Gordonites passing over this article has bothered to step up with any facts to defend him on this issue, a casual reader must assume that the allegations are correct.
Guilty as charged.