Loony Lemelin: Compares Democrats to Anti-Semitic Murderers

Niskayuna gadfly Jon Lemelin took to the Facebook comments section of an interfaith vigil Saturday night to compare local Democrats to the very Anti-Semitic murderers the vigil was being held in opposition to.  This is the latest in a series of dramatically over-the-top statements by Lemelin in response to an early-November mailer decrying a history of workplace and domestic violence by Niskayuna Supervisor Yasmine Syed’s deputy.

Lemelin is the husband of Tina Lee, a former California Republican political appointee, who had unsuccessfully sought the Democratic endorsement for Supervisor against Syed, but was defeated by life-long Democrat Lisa Weber. 

Since Lee’s defeat, Lemelin has become an increasingly prominent cheerleader for Syed.  In one noted incident, Lemelin wrote a November letter to the Daily Gazette attacking Democrats for sending out mail against Syed; even though Syed herself sent out negative mailers attacking Weber and Town Clerk Michele Martinelli.

Using an interfaith vigil against anti-semitism for political grandstanding is a new low though, even by Lemelin’s standards...