NOVICE GOV CANDIDATE PALADINO TAKES ON NY
The Associated Press - Provided by Campaign
Saturday, September 4, 2010
By MICHAEL GORMLEY
(ALBANY N.Y.) - Republican candidate for governor Carl Paladino is no politician, and he'd be the first to agree.
The Buffalo developer butted heads with his own party to petition his way into the Sept. 14 GOP primary. But the man who political experts called nuts for his ideas, unfit to be governor because he was inexperienced, racist and sexist for e-mails he once forwarded but now apologizes for as "tasteless" and in "poor judgment," appears to be gaining on party designee Rick Lazio.
"There's no stopping me," he told The Associated Press. "This isn't Carl looking to be a politician or hold down a place in government. I don't bluff. I don't fabricate. I tell the truth as I know it. If someone doesn't want to listen, they don't have to listen."
And the conservative is talking like no statewide politician New York has in memory: He promises to stop plans for a mosque to be built near ground zero, cut spending by 20 percent, cut taxes by 10 percent and cut regulations on business..
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