It is one thing for Erie County Independence Chairman Anthony L. Orsini to make backroom deals and give independent endorsements to his friends and family, but isn't the pay for endorsement thing illegal? This man cannot be trusted. I have to wonder if this party should even exist. This is a party that would have a candidate that is a registered Independent running for office and Erie County Independence Chairman Anthony L. Orsini would endorse a Democrat against his own Independent candidate. Unbelievable! What an outrage! I wonder if there was some monies involved in this "deal" also. I am certain that if I were registered as an Independent that I would be doing everything in my power to change the way nominations are handled there. Shouldn't a committee handle this. It is not a very good procedure to allow one person to make these decisions for the entire committee. Something has got to be done.