I have to agree with you on this one boomer. Not in NYS. It is way to liberal and the special interest groups control or practically run the government. Not to mention....if this guy cut taxes....who will pay for all of those government 'give a way/hand out' programs? He's not a 'player' and appears that he can't be bought. Cuomo will fit right in!
Nah....this guy would rein supreme in a state like Texas!
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
NYS has figured a way to help solve the budget deficit, they're going to borrow another 2 billion dollars to make ends meet. WTH is wrong with the people who sit in Albany and make these stupid decisions. As you stated Bumble they won't cut any money to their feel good programs that they created because it may cost them some votes.
Tea Party headliner seeks N.Y. governorship, gains from state leases
By JIMMY VIELKIND, Capitol bureau First published in print: Wednesday, April 7, 2010 ALBANY -- We were somewhere around Batavia, on the edge the Finger Lakes, when the Polish ale began to wear off.
It was Monday evening, a few hours after Buffalo developer Carl Paladino had announced his gubernatorial candidacy before a packed crowd in the Ellicott Square Building, one of many downtown properties he owns. Afterward, Paladino's campaign bus had detoured through Buffalo's Polonia neighborhood to two parties celebrating Dyngus Day, observed by the city's large Polish-American community with Tyskie ale, polka and pierogis. Now the bus was rolling east to Albany.
In jeans, Paladino talked about the Tea Party movement and how it might play into his run -- including whether he would use some of the $10 million he has pledged to his campaign to add a new political party to the ballot.
"Unifying them under one banner and one definition is very difficult," Paladino said as his campaign manager looked on from beneath a small picture of Wendy's founder Dave Thomas, for whom this bus -- called the Biggie -- was designed. "I don't look at myself as a leader of the Tea Party movement, I look at myself as a Tea Party movement person."
Not a leader, but a harnesser of the blend of inchoate rage and social networking that has allowed the movement to flourish. Paladino has been happy to headline Tea Party gatherings in the Queen City, and will do so again on Monday. The movement's anti-government animus has provided the theme for his campaign: As noted throughout his kickoff speech, he's mad as hell.
But the movement plays an interesting role in his political calculations as Paladino vies for what pollsters say is a finite pool of voters in a likely race against Democratic Attorney General Andrew Cuomo. Paladino said that he will seek the Republican nomination, although he's likely to bypass the party convention in June in favor of gathering 15,000 petition signatures to secure a spot on the September primary ballot. Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy, an enrolled Democrat, and Rick Lazio are also seeking the GOP nod. The three men are also seeking the Conservative Party line.
Top Republican leaders are backing Levy while Conservative leaders are supporting Lazio. The situation is fluid, and each campaign is hoping support from one will leverage the other. Ballot positions are determined by vote counts, and if one of the three men appeared on two lines instead of one, the third risks slipping below the 50,000-vote threshold needed to automatically stay on the ballot.
"If all the messages are the same, then it becomes a question of who wins the Republican primary. And usually the Conservative Party has the biggest weight in determining those questions," said Republican pollster John McLaughlin. But if there were three candidates on three lines, he said, the vote would split in a "disappointing" scenario that would favor Democrats......................>>>>.............>>>>.................Read more: http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=919182#ixzz0kPd7q7WF
ALBANY Paladino forces GOP primary BY MICHAEL GORMLEY The Associated Press
Buffalo millionaire Carl Paladino has successfully petitioned his way into what had seemed to be an unlikely GOP primary against Rick Lazio in the race for New York governor. The primary will extend a nasty fight between Paladino, a proudly politically incorrect novice aligned with the tea party movement, and Lazio, a former congressman from Long Island. The winner will face the better funded and more popular Democrat Andrew Cuomo. The deadline to contest thousands of signatures on Paladino’s petition to get on the Sept. 14 ballot expired at midnight Monday. State Board of Elections spokesman John Conklin said Tuesday that no objection to the petition has been fi led. Although an objection would be valid if postmarked Monday, an aide with the Lazio campaign said no challenge was made. The official spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity because the aide wasn’t authorized to comment. “It’s all over,” Paladino said of Lazio’s chance of avoiding a primary. “They’re done.” Paladino’s supporters collected nearly twice the number of signatures of Republican voters that were required. He had to collect at least 15,000 signatures, including 5 percent of voters in each of at least 15 of New York’s 29 congressional districts. Many Republican leaders had written Paladino off after he was defeated by Lazio in a raucous fl oor fight at the state Republican convention in June. Paladino resorted to nominating himself to get a chance to speak to delegates, an opportunity he said was promised but denied by party leaders. The Lazio campaign publicly tried to ignore the unconventional candidate aligned with the tea party, a national movement angry at overtaxing and overspending politicians. Paladino said he’s also put behind him some early press reports of racist and sexist e-mails he forwarded and comments that included saying President Barack Obama’s health care plan would cause more suffering and deaths than the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. .................>>>>...................>>>>...................http://www.dailygazette.net/De.....r01401&AppName=1
From his bio... He's anti choice, anti health care, anti gay rights... Ummm and he expects New Yorkers to vote for him?
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
Paladino is running a conservative campaign "based on values," apparently Carl's "values" include, racism, porn (bestiality), and stupidity.
Included in Paladino's email portfolio are: ~ a doctored photo of Miss France having sex, ~a photo of dancing African tribesmen titled "Obama Inauguration Rehearsal," ~a photo of Obama and the first lady doctored to simulate a 1970s pimp and prostitute, ~and another using a derogatory term for blacks.
Paladino has a history of racist incidents... in 2008 the Common Council passed a resolution that condemned Paladino's remarks as "racially divisive."
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
We should all vote for another Cuomo? lol-What business has he run? And let's not forget he's great job overseeing HUD. How did that Mohawk River revitalization work out for you? Jump off the bridge to nowhere.
Boomer's right the moron vote is too big to elect a pro-life, successful businessman. Maybe in New Jersey but never here. We don't want someone new, who has actually accomplished something in the private sector.
For me, Paladino is the way to go. Lazio doesn't really impress me and cuomo is certainly not an option. NY has not had a good governor in decades. Cuomo and lazio are not enough to shake up this state. If cuomo gets elected, we can expect to continue with this out of control spending, more government handouts, no new businesses, people leaving the state and out of control taxes!!! IMHO
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
ALBANY Paladino says he’ll quit if he loses GOP primary BY MICHAEL GORMLEY The Associated Press
Rising Republican candidate Carl Paladino said Wednesday that he won’t stay in the New York governor’s race if he doesn’t win the Republican primary, saying the GOP can’t afford to let Democrat Andrew Cuomo win. “We’re not going to be a spoiler to someone running against Andrew Cuomo and taking him down,” Paladino told NY1’s “Inside City Hall” political program. “Andrew Cuomo is the poster child for everything that people don’t want in government anymore.” ..............................>>>>................>>>>...................http://www.dailygazette.net/De.....r01605&AppName=1
PALADINO TO CONGRESS: ACT ON GROUND ZERO MOSQUE NOW NY Governor candidate calls upon Congress to declare district a War Memorial
(BUFFALO, NY) - After President Barack Obama announced his support for the Ground Zero Mosque at a Ramadan celebration tonight, Buffalo businessman Carl Paladino, a Republican candidate for Governor of New York, called upon the United States Congress to declare the World Trade Center district of New York City a War Memorial. The federal government designation would help stop the construction of a Victory Mosque at the site where radical Islamists declared war on America and killed thousands of innocent civilians.
"Now we know exactly what President Obama thinks of the families left behind by the murderous attack on America not ten years ago," Paladino said. "The Ground Zero Mosque is an insult to all Americans and a slap in the face to the surviving families of those murdered in cold blood on September 11th and all the American and allied men and women killed and maimed in the ensuing wars."
"The Ground Zero Mosque is not about freedom of religion, as President Obama claims. It's about the murderous ideology behind the attacks on our country and the fanatics our troops are fighting every day in the Middle East," Paladino said. "New York's Congressional delegation must move immediately to sponsor and pass a law that declares the entire World Trade Center district a War Memorial where one group of Americans may not move to insult another class of citizens."
Paladino and other supporters of a War Memorial district in lower Manhattan propose including the entire area where the dust cloud containing human remains spread from the World Trade Center site. The developers of the Ground Zero Mosque are not moderate Muslims, but backers of the violent Hamas and Muslim Brotherhood sects. The developers blame America for the attacks on September 11th and subscribe to the bloodthirsty tenets of Sharia Law.
Carl Paladino, a successful Western New York real estate developer and attorney, is a Republican candidate for Governor of New York. He and Tom Ognibene, candidate for Lieutenant Governor, petitioned their way into the Republican Primary in July and canvassed to create a Tea Party-inspired line called the Taxpayers Party.
NY candidate: Prison dorms for welfare recipients BETH FOUHY, Associated Press Writer Published: 10:08 a.m., Saturday, August 21, 2010
NEW YORK (AP) — Republican candidate for governor Carl Paladino said he would transform some New York prisons into dormitories for welfare recipients, where they could work in state-sponsored jobs, get employment training and take lessons in "personal hygiene."
Paladino, a wealthy Buffalo real estate developer popular with many tea party activists, isn't saying the state should jail poor people: The program would be voluntary.
But the suggestion that poor families would be better off in remote institutions, rather than among friends and family in their own neighborhoods, struck some anti-poverty activists as insulting.
Paladino is competing for the Republican nomination with former U.S. Rep. Rick Lazio. The primary is Sept. 14.
Paladino first described the idea in June at a meeting of The Journal News of White Plains and spoke about it again this week with The Associated Press.
Throughout his campaign, Paladino has criticized New York's rich menu of social service benefits, which he says encourages illegal immigrants and needy people to live in the state. He has promised a 20 percent reduction in the state budget and a 10 percent income tax cut if elected.
Asked at the meeting how he would achieve those savings, Paladino laid out several plans that included converting underused state prisons into centers that would house welfare recipients. There, they would do work for the state — "military service, in some cases park service, in other cases public works service," he said — while prison guards would be retrained to work as counselors.
"Instead of handing out the welfare checks, we'll teach people how to earn their check. We'll teach them personal hygiene ... the personal things they don't get when they come from dysfunctional homes," Paladino said.
New York, like other states, receives a federal block grant to provide cash and other forms of welfare to very low-income residents. Federal law already requires welfare recipients to do some form of work to receive benefits.
New York's welfare rolls have grown slightly during the recession, while food stamp eligibility has almost doubled, according to the state.
Paladino told The Associated Press the dormitory living would be voluntary, not mandatory, and would give welfare recipients an opportunity to take public, state-sponsored jobs far from home.
"These are beautiful properties with basketball courts, bathroom facilities, toilet facilities. Many young people would love to get the hell out of cities," Paladino he said.
He also defended his hygiene remarks, saying he had trained inner-city troops in the Army and knows their needs.
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
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We should all vote for another Cuomo? lol-What business has he run? And let's not forget he's great job overseeing HUD. How did that Mohawk River revitalization work out for you? Jump off the bridge to nowhere.
