Albany, NY – A veteran political consultant was fired recently by New York State Senator Daniel Squadron while she was mourning the loss of her father.
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The NEW YORK DAILY NEWS (http://nydn.us/XRkiv1) is reporting that the consultant, Cynthia Darrison, said that the inappropriateness of the termination phone call from Squadron during Shiva left her “numb” and “reeling.”
“It was one of the most shocking conversations I’ve ever had,” Darrison said on Monday.
When Darrison first took the call, she said she explained to Squadron that as an observant Jew, she could not talk business while she was in mourning. She told him that she could discuss the issue with him in two days when the period of shiva would end.
But Squadron refused to wait, and Darrison returned to find that Squadron had recruited two of her staffers to set up a new fundraising operation—one floor below her Manhattan office.
Darrison, a Democrat, whose clients have included Sen. Patrick Moynihan, Andrew Cuomo, and Eliot Spitzer, is fighting back now by first donating $175 each to Squadron’s two opponents.
And in an email that is currently circulating around town, Darrison tells Squadron, “I am very, very disappointed with the lack of character and ethics you have shown. An agreement with you is meaningless. You have no sensitivity for religious mourning observance…(nor) do you have respect for small businesses such as mine.”
Squadron declined comment Monday, but a campaign aide, Jonathan Rosen, said Squadron did not know that Darrison was still sitting shiva when he called.
Another campaign source said Squadron was unsatisfied with Darrison’s performance and was upset because that she failed to pay a campaign worker for over a month—a charge Darrison denied in her email.
Asked Monday why she sent the email and donated money to Squadron’s opponents, Darrison said, “I wasn’t going to shrink from telling him what I thought. I found his behavior so reprehensible that I no longer believe he should be the next public advocate. I can’t support him.”
WOW!!! I certainly can’t believe she wouldn’t have told him she was sitting shiva. What a nasty thing to do. I was fired on the phone as well, not while I was sitting shiva, so I know how devastating it feels just to be terminated like that. In my case, it wasn’t for bad performance it was for budget cuts, but still. It hurts.
Good for her. Hope she gets satisfaction.
you mean to tell me politicians have no integrity? why that is shocking – who woulda thunk?? (sarcastic)
Sorry for the loss of your parent. But losing this boss was a good thing.
Ashamed to say that this would probably not have have been perpetrated by a gentile.