Posted on 09/20/2010 11:13:41 AM PDT by Puppage
The gloves have never really been "on" for Tea Party darling Carl Paladino, but now he's really hitting below the belt in the fight to be governor of the Empire State.
The New York Republican Gubernatorial nominee sent a letter to his Democratic rival, Andrew Cuomo, accusing him of having "no cojones."
Paladino makes the claim while trying to goad Cuomo into an open debate with him.
"It's difficult to understand why you, a polished veteran campaigner, scion of a political dynasty and king-designate, would fear a simple businessman from Buffalo, who candidly has never been in a debate in his life -- except maybe in a bar," Paladino writes in the letter which was obtained by the Daily News.
Paladino continued, "Frankly, I don't think you have the cojones to face me and the other candidates in a open debate. I dont think you have the cojones to answer direct questions regarding the mistakes you made at HUD in pushing a sub-prime mortgage scheme that cost taxpayers $2.4 trillion dollars and cost most New Yorkers the value of their 401-Ks."
In response, New York State Democratic Chairman Jay Jacobs called Paladino a loon, for the most part.
"Andrew Cuomo has said he's open to debates and is contacting other campaigns but it seems like Carl is melting down again," Jacobs said, according to the Daily News. "We'd be happy to debate Carl Paladino just as soon as he finishes the debate going on inside his head."
Meanwhile, another report says Paladino received a $1.4 million tax break as the developer of Buffalo real estate, but failed to deliver on promised investments and jobs.
The Daily News says Paladino received millions of dollars in state tax breaks for upgrading distressed Buffalo buildings under the failed Empire Zone program. The newspaper reports he added only one job to a one-person operation and invested $300,000 less in the properties than the tax breaks were worth.
Paladino won a court decision in August that found the state illegally changed the rules of the program and improperly decertified Paladino's company shortly after Paladino joined entered the campaign.
Paladino has called state government broken and corrupt.
Yet, your boy won't debate the loon. Now, why IS that, hmmm?
Yes!!! He goes right to Cuomo’s HUD disaster!
Up here in Hillbilly Country Cuomo is known as “A Daddy`s Boy”, indistinguishable from his father, [Cuomo Who?], kind of an abbie-normal clone
A complete coincidence I'm sure.
Well, he isn’t beating around the bush. He comes right out and says what he thinks and I dont see Cuomo answering him.
Sent some Dem flunky.
Exposing Cuomo’s involvement as head of HUD under Clinton could blow Andrew’s capaign to smithereens. The Wall St fraudsters got rich off the scheme, but the ‘sheeple’ got taken to the cleaners. If Paladino can bring to light the fact that Clinton and Cuomos started the housing bubble by their policies of forcing banks to make crap loans to deadbeats who happened to live in ‘disadvantaged’ neighborhoods, he could stand a chance to take out another of the ‘elites’.
Exposing Cuomo’s involvement as head of HUD under Clinton could blow Andrew’s capaign to smithereens. The Wall St fraudsters got rich off the scheme, but the ‘sheeple’ got taken to the cleaners. If Paladino can bring to light the fact that Clinton and Cuomos started the housing bubble by their policies of forcing banks to make crap loans to deadbeats who happened to live in ‘disadvantaged’ neighborhoods, he could stand a chance to take out another of the ‘elites’.
Wow. This guy makes Chris Christie look downright milquetoast.
Where the Son Doesn’t Follow
September 4, 2002
· By Rod Dreher; NRO Senior Writer
National Review Online
And that was then...
Gotta love the title...”Paladino Calls Out Cuomo’s “Cojones”
I just have this vision of the Oompa Loompa song...Oompa loompa doompety dee I your cajones and your tiny weenie
New Rasmussen poll shows Carl making up 13 points since last Tuesday. He was tied with Lazio according to the final polls and blew him out 63/37.
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