As I approached from the south, there were 6 DPW vehicles parked near the work site while 7 or 8 DPW workers were hundreds of feet away near the concrete barriers at the other end of the work site. Three of the DPW vehicles, including one dump truck (not in picture), were idling for no reason at all.
As the DPW crew and Mr. Perry walked past me to their vehicles, 3 of them had something to say to me.
One DPW laborer: "Don't even be a wise ass comin' by me. I'll woop yer ass."
I asked him, "When?" Twice.
Seconds later, our DPW Superintendent for the past 17 years, with his phone to his ear, had this to say to me: "Shut up, I got your girlfriend talking, retard." Mr. Perry's joke garnered a few laughs from his workers, most loudly from his foreman, Frank Rogers, who was walking next to him.
That's right, Rob Perry referred to me as a "retard."
A third DPW worker passing by, possibly Rogers, had this to say this to me: "Shut the fuck up, asshole."
I wonder if Mr. Perry would still have tried to impress his workers with such an immature, offensive joke involving the word retard if he had known that my phone just happened to be recording every word he and his workers were saying out loud.
As longtime HUDseen readers may recall, in September of 2024, Rob Perry referred to me as a "scumbag" in the parking lot of Stewart's. Then he gave me his middle finger.
What a charming, mature adult we have for a DPW Superintendent! If only all of our department heads and city officials were so pleasant to be near and interact with.
According to SeeThroughNY's 2025 payroll data, Robert W. Perry was the 8th highest paid City of Hudson employee, right behind 7 police officers. He is listed as having made $122,874 last year, yet he's still making "retard" jokes in front of his workers as if he's in 8th grade or in a college fraternity full of drunk bros. He resembles Donald Trump in so many ways that it's frightening.
I recently found reference to a January 2008 Daily Gazette article regarding Mr. Perry when he was Hudson's Common Council president. Unfortunately, I don't have access to the entire article. It should come as no surprise to anyone that our longtime DPW Superintendent once decided that it was in the city's best interest to "limit opportunities for public comment." If he had his way now, he'd likely do the same, much like our so-called President in Washington, D.C. would like to do, no doubt.
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DPW Superintendent Perry stopped using his own department's main offices on the second floor of City Hall as his own office at least seven years ago. According to both of his clerks in the DPW offices, Perry is "never here." Instead, his office, his desk, his computer, his lair, is behind a barbed wire fence at the top of Rossman Avenue where no one can bother him, have easy access to him or keep an eye on him. Rob Perry doesn't want to spend any time in City Hall unless it's absolutely necessary, and he certainly doesn't want to be near his supposed boss, the mayor. But does anyone in City Hall want to be near Rob Perry?
I have been told the following story by two people, one who grew up in Hudson with Perry and still lives in the area. (While I believe the story to be true, it may not be.) When Rob Perry was the council president there was a longstanding requirement that the DPW Superintendent have an engineering degree. That requirement was done away with (presumably after a vote by the council), and Perry then stepped down as council president (he basically quit) so that he could become the city's first DPW Superintendent without an engineering degree, a transition he successfully accomplished. That was in early 2009. I wonder if Rob Perry was referring to his coworkers, city residents and perceived enemies as "scumbags" and "retards"17 years ago, just as he is today.
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