Bud’s Book

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I’m working my butt almost off when two men in black suits come into my business and urgently say they need to speak to me in private and what is said adds my name to the NY Times which is the main impetus to reveal this story to you..  These FBI officials tell me that there is an active death threat upon my life and that I should leave my residence as soon as possible.  The culprit who else but bad old Tom Steven’s.

I packed my bags as me, my wife and young child go into hiding at my sisters house. To tell you the truth I wasn’t in the panic mode maybe it was because of what I’d been through or maybe as evil as I thought Tom Steven’s could be I didn’t believe he was a killer. Not everyone in my family took this relaxed attitude many were in fear of my life.

Tom Steven’s went through the system as I did but was also under house arrest for a period of time after his bail was set.  The investigation determined that he was “entrapped”  into feeling he should commit this act and didn’t have the  serious intention for conviction.  I found out during the investigation that my former Vice President of the Club was involved in someway in these actions but even today I don’t know why he acted in such a way. Was it to seek revenge on my part without my knowledge, did he feel that Tom Steven’s was still a threat to the public or could it have been an alternate motive I guess I’ll never know?

Tom Stevens was exonerated of criminal activity in this incident and even though I didn’t see afterwards he still haunted my very being. Therapy helped me deal with these feeling and also allowed me to speak up about what had occurred.  In the past I would be embarrassed to tell this story even to my closest trusted friends and even family but today I’m as open as book about it.  I thank the NY Times for keeping this story in my spotlight and therefore making sure that I would tell the whole truth to the world.

In closing I ask that we all remember that those individuals without statue in life maybe the one’s most harmed by false accusations  justice is difficult for them to seek and therefore we should think twice even three times before passing judgement.

Murder seeped through my every heartbeat and burned my soul as I needed to seek justice, until a new light shine upon me.  The day began anew in one moment I was Mayor in the next I was behind bars all  because of a despicable lie meant to rip apart my very being. The reason that this hideous accusation was made is behind the scope of sanity yet in his twisted mind the idea of being thrown out of the nominating committee of a petty political club was enough to act. Machiavelli would have been proud.

Tom Stevens a name that still holds the scars of injustice in my heart was behind this action.  It was strange because he was the man that helped me escape my insecurities to the security of politics.  I was looking for my own identity and found a part of it in the re-election campaign of Ronald Reagan.  Political philosophy was something I could speak about for hours with the confidence of a surgeon seeking to find the end of a splinter. At a rally for Ronald Reagan,  Tom Steven’s was looking for another  naive young man  with ideals who was willing to jump in the ice cold world of politics even if he couldn’t swim. I grabbed at this life jacket. It would be years later that I found out this life jacket was full of holes and weights.

The connections I believed I had enabled me to move up the Republican ladder. I became President and Founder of Students for Reagan in SUNY Albany and started the Young Republican  Chapter at  SUNY Albany.  Politics already became a bit dirty as the College Republican’s of SUNY Albany were vindictive with a competitive YR chapter even though we both had a handful of members. I attended lavish Young Republican statewide events that Tom Steven’s was responsible for and bits of peculiarity about Mr. Stevens would occasionally slip out but I being loyal to the cause would discard them as just idle gossip.

The distraction from personality instead of cause left me with a bitter  taste that made me decide to drop out of the political world until Amy Carter pulled me back in….

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