It's official, Paladino v Cuomo for NYS governor

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From his website:

The Ground Zero Mosque is an affront to the American people and an insult to the thousands who died there and the thousands of troops who have been killed and maimed in the ensuing wars.

Carl believes Ground Zero is much larger than the footprint of the Twin Towers. In fact, Ground Zero is the entire lower Manhattan district where the dust cloud fell. That cloud contained the remains of the many men and women murdered.

Carl doesn’t view this as a religious issue. He sees it as all about ideology - an ideology of hate bent on the destruction of America. The developers of the Ground Zero Mosque are not moderate Muslims - they support Hamas and blame the United States for 9-11. Many moderate Muslims are as upset about the Ground Zero Mosque as non-Muslims.

Carl doesn’t think we need to just investigate the funding behind the Mosque - that’s equivocating. It doesn’t matter who paid for it. When Carl is sworn in as Governor of New York, he will stop the Mosque that very day by any legal means necessary.

Eminent domain may help accomplish this, but not by taking the property. With limited eminent domain, the Ground Zero District can simply be declared a restricted area where insults to the 9-11 families may never be built.

That settles it. I absolutely will not vote for Paladino, and as a freedom loving American despise him. If he has so little respect for civil liberty that he will use eminent domain to accomplish religious persecution then he’s a tyrant. Period. Spin it however you like, it doesn’t change the truth that he wants to forcibly take private property to suppress free religious practice.

And I just read his bit on his “Dignity Corp” aka making more people work for the state (this is called socialism kids). How do you do that when unemployment is so high that people who want work already can’t find jobs? Fuck dignity corp. Just kick them off welfare and let the private sector find something for them to do.

Education:

Administration: Carl will demand that the Regents Board remove the School Board and Superintendents of all school systems presently achieving a less than 60 percent graduation rate or having more than 25 percent of its schools in any form of academic distress and replace them with a competent “Special Master” with full authority to implement the changes necessary to effectively and quickly address the dysfunction.

Yes, deeper government involvement is always the answer. To everything apparently. Let me remind you that school board members are elected. He sees fit to do away with elected officials as he pleases. This guy is terrifying. I don’t know how he considers himself a REPUBLICan when he obviously does not believes in the concepts that make a republic.

I’m not saying I’ll vote for Cuomo either, but I’m sure as shit not going to vote myself from the People’s Republic of NY into the Kingdom of NY.

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Hippie.

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No. This guy is seriously frightening. Well, not him specifically. He’s just another impotent politician. I’m terrified of the masses that will vote for a platform based on disregard for individual rights. This is the drooling beast Ayn Rand wrote about in the Fountainhead: People who will do anything to avoid having to think for themselves or take responsibility for their own life situations. This is the oppression that our founders tried to protect us from.

Fuck economic policy. The destruction of liberty transcends that a million times over.

He’s flat out telling us that he will take away our rights and our response is “well OK as long as I can blame a raghead for my problems I’ll give you my liberty.” Who cares right? You don’t need guaranteed rights so long as you’re in the majority…

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More good news for Paladino.

http://www.buffalonews.com/city/politics/article203319.ece

Carl gets rid of his vote siphoner Lazio and Cuomo picks up one that will draw from his most loyal base.

And lol @ Fry and his “the sky is falling” stuff. Besides the stuff I list below, lets not forget that to governor in NY has less power than the senate and assembly. At most a governor like Paladino would shine a light on the dysfunction in the senate and assembly which hopefully would get voters to reconsider re-electing the same corrupt idiots year after year.

  1. 70+% of NYers want the mosque moved somewhere else. Paladino said he will use any LEGAL means to make that happen. He won’t find any, but it makes a nice sound byte to at least say you agree with the majority as opposed to bowing down to king Bloomberg.

  2. You’re never going to “just kick them off welfare and let the private sector find something for them to do”. That’s nonsense pie in the sky shit and you know it. So if we’re going to keep paying for them to be on welfare lets force them to do something to better themselves so maybe we have at least a chance of getting some of them off welfare.

  3. We’ve already set precedent for overriding local voter choices when those choices don’t work. Buffalo got a state appointed control board and so did Erie County. Both effectively neutered the elected voice of the people of Buffalo and Erie County. The same needs to be done for these failing local schools. Buffalo continues to elect union friendly school boards who only answer to the BTF (Buffalo Teachers Federation, the Buffalo teachers union). Buffalo has a superintendent (Williams) who fought for weeks to keep principals who’s firings were mandated by the recent federal school aid guidelines. Due to this refusal Buffalo stood to loose MILLIONS in federal funding, simply because of the broken politics of the Buffalo school system. It’s time to take the power away from these corrupt locally elected officials who’s ineptitude leads to the waste of millions and millions of STATE and FEDERAL taxpayer dollars. Not only are the education dollars wasted, but when these failing schools crank out disproportionate numbers of criminals and members of society that depend on state aid the taxpayers of the entire state foot the bill.

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Fry, I agree with your thoughts on the civil liberties and what you posted in general but

I gotta say

Come on, Come on…

You wouldn’t vote for him after this :stuck_out_tongue: This is fucking great.

http://www.wgrz.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=88626&catid=37

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Paladino almost gets in a fight with a NY Post reporter.

http://blogs.buffalonews.com/politics_now/2010/09/youtube-video-of-confrontation-from-capitaltonightcom.html

“fuck him” :lol:

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Who else can i vote for? I hate both these people.

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Can I have your cookie if Dicker suddenly “disappears” ?

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This is great. I kind of don’t mind the fact that he’s unelectable. I like the fact that he won’t be pushed around.

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I can’t wait to see the evidence of Cuomo cheating his wife. lol

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I don’t give a shit about either side doing it. Good for them. Irrelevant to their ability to govern.

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I honestly agree with a good amount of paladinos platform, I also believe the standard rhetoric of “shaking things up in albany” he will go through with to the best of his ability, unlike every other politician who just pays lip service.

All the other governers have messed things up even worse and let everything get out of control, I feel like we dont have much to lose with paladino but a whole lot to gain

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If you think Obama would have won if he was white, you live in a strange little world. If Obama was white he would have been laughed out of the room when he mentioned a run for president, and it would be president Clinton again.

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Cuomo Has Huge Lead Over “Loose Cannon” Paladino
A new Siena College poll in New York shows Andrew Cuomo (D) with a huge lead over Carl Paladino ® among likely voters in the race for governor, 56% to 32%.

Key finding: 59% of voters have an unfavorable view of Paladino and 61% agree with the statement that he “is a loose cannon, who doesn’t have the temperament to be governor.”

Said pollster Steven Greenberg: “With four weeks until voters go to the polls, Cuomo remains in a very strong position to be elected New York’s next governor. Cuomo leads Paladino by 24 points among likely voters in a head-to-head matchup with both candidates on three ballot lines. Cuomo has a huge 70-17 percent lead in New York City, a strong 54-35 lead in the downstate suburbs and upstate voters are nearly evenly divided with Cuomo having 45 percent support and Paladino 43 percent.”

If Crazy Carl wants to get elected he’s got some serious ground to make up, and his platform has to be more than just how mad he is. This is in a likely voters survey which leans Republican this year.

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It boils down to one thing. Do we want this state to continue running the way it has been for decades? We have the most dysfunctional state government in the US. That says something.

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So vote Libertarian?

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^No! Stop that Libertarian nonsense. This is America you have to fit into the right wing/left wing system!

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lol there’s a problem with that though. Democrats and Republicans both fight for the Constitution, but Libertarians have actually read it. :stuck_out_tongue: :frowning:

I’m voting for Warren Redlich. No he’s not going to win, but at least I won’t have to say that I supported either of these shit bags, but rather someone with good ideas. :tup:

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How do you nail your own coffin shut? Ask Carl. lol

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Yeah Palladino’s done. I guess we won’t be having a totalitarian state afterall. Sigh. Wellfare state it is.