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I saw the comments made in a letter from Town Board member Mark Grimm in last week’s paper. I won’t comment on most of them, but I do have something to say about the one that directly involves me. Mark Grimm says that he found Warren Redlich’s comment that Captain Curtis Cox and I were political flunkies inappropriate, and that it made the selection of a police chief more difficult.
If that remark is by way of an apology, I of course accept it, but I really have to question the timing. At the meeting referred to in Mark Grimm’s letter, he and Warren Redlich both questioned my education, my intelligence, my experience, my leadership capacity, and my integrity, as I sat there in a room that contained a very large number of my family members, friends, and professional associates.
Mark Grimm made no effort to get his associate Warren Redlich to tone down his negative commentary during the course of the meeting. Instead, he participated in the negative comments, although not in as openly aggressive manner. In fact, it appeared to some of the people who were with me at that meeting that their approach to commenting on me had been arranged in advance.
I’m not sure if that was the case, but I do know that the way that I was spoken to and about that night was truly hurtful, and that it took something away from the pleasure I felt at being chosen that night as Guilderland’s new Chief of Police.
I hope that in the past year my work has earned me the respect of Mark Grimm and Warren Redlich. I certainly have tried to succeed in this role, both for my own sake and for the people of the Town. However, I cannot pretend that the hurtful behavior of that meeting did not happen, and I will not allow it to be said that Mark Grimm did not participate with Warren Redlich in making it happen.
Carol J. Lawlor
Chief of Police
Guilderland
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