Amarillo City Councilman Place 1 and mayoral candidate Cole Stanley posted a video to his campaign’s Facebook addressing the Tuesday City Council meeting.

n the video, Stanley referred to the meeting as “a political hit job,” referencing an item where Mayor Ginger Nelson brought up accusations that Stanley had accepted a $40,000 campaign contribution from Alex Fairly to sway him to drop the city’s appeal in a lawsuit won by Fairly last year.

Stanley stated in the video that he has “had no conversations with Alex Fairly about the lawsuit” since his exit from the suit. “He’s never asked me to do anything for him.”

He also noted that, even if the city were to drop its appeal, the case might not be over, as Fairly is also appealing the ruling, asking that the courts state the city broke another portion of state law not mentioned in the ruling. “He may not want to drop his appeal,” said Stanley.

Stanley also appeared to criticize the city’s reasoning behind their appeal, which Mayor Nelson has stated is to clarify existing state law. “There’s state law right now that’s being written into existence based on what’s happened.” One piece of legislation, SB 2035, was recently passed by the Texas Senate.

Stanley ended the video by talking about how Mayor Nelson refused to allow former mayor Trent Sisemore to speak during the discussion of Stanley’s finance reports. Not allowing Sisemore to speak “was super disrespectful,” said Stanley, who also said he later called Sisemore to ask him what he had planned to say. However, Stanley stated that Sisemore did not say. “Amarillo will just never know.”

At the end of the video, a message simply stating “Part Two Sunday, April 30th” appeared.

Stanley is facing fellow councilmember Freda Powell, as well as retired manager Don Collins, truck drivers Tonya C. Winston and Sam Burnett, life/consciousness coach Jeffrey McGunegle in the race to replace retiring mayor Ginger Nelson. Running to replace Stanley as Amarillo’s Place One City Council member are business owner Chip Hunt, pastor Margie Gonzales, firefighter Josh Craft, lottery winner Dean Crump, analyst Kelsey Richardson, and Amazon employee Sherie Wood. Early voting continues on Monday, May 1st and Tuesday, May 2nd. Election Day is Saturday, May 6th.

Watch the full video below: