Metroland: Top Secret!!! Troy GOP plans for total victory!

Troy City Republicans are scrambling to come up with a winning strategy for the 2011 election cycle.

Good luck!

Troy has a voter registration that favors the Democrats 5 to 3, which might nave been manageable back in the days when Joe Bruno was calling the shots and Bob Mirch was busy scheming and plotting. But nowadays, Bruno's busy contemplating the inside of a prison cell and Mirch is busy sunning himself in Florida, and the Republicans who are left in Troy are lonely and lost and looking that clear path to victory. Someone from their ranks needs to step up. Someone needs to make order. And that someone, apparently, is Jeff Pirro, spokesman for the mayor.

The Sons of Liberty is a grassroots organization that formed after last year's Tea Party in Albany, to study organizing tactics and bask in their ideological purity. Its members span the conservative spectrum from disgruntled Republican to libertarians who want to privatize the roads. And somehow this group got their hands on a very impure document: an email that Pirro had sent out to his fellow Troy Republicans that laid out his strategies for the Republican committee to run successful candidates and to reclaim political control in Troy.

The document was intended for a small circle of Republican insiders, Pirro said. Not for the small circle of conservative ideologues who invited him to their weekly meeting, to see if they could find common ground with a representative of the Establishment Republican Party.

The Tea Partiers said that they found the purely political considerations in Pirro’s document to be short-sighted and endemic of the problem; Pirro found their inflexibility in accepting political realities to be remote.

He told them that when he needs their help on an issue, he will seek them out, otherwise, Peace. They told him that when their principles aligned with his goals, they’d oblige, otherwise they’d vote out the bastards. Then they all hugged and made up a little, acting like the big, splintered family that they are.

Here’s an excerpt from Pirro’s email: “What are we for? What are we against?”

Our message in November failed for a lot of a reasons but it is still my contention that the primary reason was that the Democrats were able to take credit for what the Mayor and allies have done. Voter fraud didn’t resonate as much as it should have because the environment was already so poisonous that people tuned it out. (That works to our advantage though, especially when indictments are handed down) In the end, the people that didn’t have their vote hijacked had no other reason to vote against Democrats.

You can read the rest of the document here.

Thanks to the Sons of Liberty for making this document public.