Carl Paladino is a Buffalonian, property developer. A bit of a loose-cannon and while he has led successful initiatives in the past (for example removing toll barriers on the thruway near Buffalo that should, according to law, have been gone many years ago), he has never been a politician. Not sure he has much name recognition downstate and in NY City. NY State is now like Communist Eastern Europe in how frozen and controlled our politics is - so he has a big fight ahead of him.
He has promised to try and put Sheldon Silver, corrupt speaker of the NY Assembly and political apparatchik extraordinare, in PRISON — so Carl Paladino has my support for that!
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Rick Lazio is not pro abortion.
The NY conservative party is a joke. Just a patronage machine now. It endorses non-conservative Republicans and even some rats like Levy.
Paladino-Nadler 9/11 cage match
Carl Paladino is as unimpressed with Rep. Jerrold Nadler’s criticism of Paladino’s Obamacare-worse-than-9/11 statement as he is by the fact that Nadler “kissed enough asses to chair a committee of politicians in the Congress” — or so Paladino opines in a letter the likely gubernatorial candidate sent to the Congressman today.
Dear Mr. Nadler:
I have read with interest your comments regarding my recent appearance on Curtis Sliwa’s show on 970AM the Apple. Your statement drips with the pomposity and arrogance we have come to expect from our rotten ruling class, so busy clawing for campaign contributions they can’t find the time to understand the bill. I am not impressed that you kissed enough asses to chair a committee of politicians in the Congress, and the fact that you are Chairman of a House Judiciary subcommittee hardly means you are an authority on the Constitutionality of the Obamacare law.
You can’t recognize the role small- and medium-sized businesses play in real job creation because you have spent your life on the public payroll. I am the CEO of a successful corporation directly employing hundreds of workers, providing work to thousands of others and investing every single day in economic development. I know what Obamacare will do to the business core of New York’s economy – it is going to choke us, plain and simple.
Finally, my law degree is just as good as yours; I practiced in the New York Courts for 15 years. I have reviewed the bill and ten state Attorney Generals agree with me that the law is unconstitutional. I also stand with all the New Yorkers who are signing my Sunday night letter to Andrew Cuomo calling for New York to join the 10-state lawsuit against Obamacare.
We the People are tired of the political gamesmanship of partisan hacks. Anytime you want to debate this, I invite you to come to Buffalo and bring it on.
Sincerely,
Carl Paladino