Something stinks in the campaign of New York GOP Senatorial nominee Carl Paladino. Over 200,000 citizens received a mailer that Paladino intentionally scented with a “landfill” odor in his campaign against Democratic nominee Andrew Cuomo.
Paladino felt that the landfill laced mailers were are perfect way to add another sense to photos of seven Democrats featured in their involvement in corruption scandals.
The mailer labeled “Something STINKS in Albany” contains a vile odor to drive home the point. It is an increasing twist on winning votes by turning stomachs. Democrats can respond with mailers on oil spills that smell like dead otters. Soon we will need a hazmat suit just to retrieve the morning mail.
In the meantime, former Senator Al D’Amato has signed an open letter with former Mayor Ed Koch and former State Comptroller Carl McCall that calls Paladino not only unfit to be governor but outright dangerous.
Here is the letter:
An Open Letter to New Yorkers
The victory of Carl Paladino in the Republican Primary was a disappointing day for all New Yorkers. This state has a long history of electing highly qualified, forward-looking statewide candidates – both Democrats and Republicans. Yesterday, however, anger overcame reason and enabled a fringe element to choose the Republican nominee. The end result was the selection of Mr. Paladino, a divisive figure simply not fit to lead this great state.
At a time when we need leaders who can bring New Yorkers together, Mr. Paladino practices a destructive brand of politics that will divide our state. He first came to the attention of most New Yorkers when it was revealed that, for years, he has shared racially offensive emails with associates. Including videos popular with white supremacists, these emails are beneath the dignity of a candidate for high office.
This, however, was merely a preview of what we have seen along the campaign trail. Mr. Paladino was justifiably condemned by the AntiDefamation League and editorial boards alike for referring to Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver – a prominent Jewish leader – as the closest thing New York has to an anti-Christ or a Hitler. Most recently, Mr. Paladino offended basic New York values when he suggested that low income New Yorkers should be sent to prison work camps for lessons in “personal hygiene.” That type of hateful comment has no place in our discourse, dehumanizing the poor and playing off of despicable racist ideas.
Mr. Paladino is also running a disingenuous campaign. He has portrayed himself as an anti-government crusader, while embodying the very worst of Albany’s pay-to-play culture. To quote his own slogan, he is the reason that New Yorkers are “Mad as Hell.”
He has personally distributed close to a half a million dollars to federal and state candidates, bankrolling the campaigns of numerous allies. This has allowed him to pocket millions of dollars in tax incentives, sweetheart deals, and scores of government contracts. Paladino’s real estate empire takes in over $10 million each year in government rents alone.
There’s a reason why even the chairmen of the Republican and Conservative parties disavowed Mr. Paladino’s candidacy, noting that he “stands in stark contrast to what the Republican party stands for,” that Paladino is a “dangerous candidate,” and that he “tries to appeal to the mean spiritedness” of people.
We need a governor who can take on the special interests, not one who is a special interest. We also need a governor who will bring New Yorkers together to take on our common challenges, not drive us apart. Through his own words and actions Carl Paladino has proven himself unfit to serve as Governor – he is exactly the wrong person to lead our state.
ALFONSE D’AMATO
EDWARD I. KOCH
H.CARL MCCALL
Source: Forbes
eniobob,
Maybe she’s more knowledgeable than we think???
😉
Elaine M.
“If we were going to invade a crack house, and we said, ‘We’re going to invade this crack house. We’re going to raid this crack house.’ For six months, we gave them warning. And then you walk in and you go, ‘Hey, there’s no crack. There’s only these little pipes. Now, there’s no crack with the little pipes, so we can’t assume that these pipes are used for crack.’” [Hardball, 6/20/03]”
She seems to have some knowledge.
Carl Paladino’s CRAZIEST Lines: From Welfare Prison Dorms To Slamming Sarah Palin (PHOTOS)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/17/carl-paladinos-craziest-l_n_720430.html?ir=Politics
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/18/obama-lectures-gop-on-cam_n_721993.html Republicans are blocking campaign finance legislation.
rafflaw & Buddha,
In regard to Paladino: I small a rat–not mouse brains.
That’s a terrible thing to say about mice, raff. 😉
Elaine,
I did see the Think Progress material, but thanks. I hope we don’t have to worry about any of these mice brained people actually take office.
rafflaw,
Speaking of O’Donnell:
From Think Progress
The Old Adventures Of New Christine
http://thinkprogress.org/christine-odonnell-record/
Here are some of the best Christine O’Donnell comments:
O’Donnell warned about mice with ‘fully functioning human brains.’ “Now we’re using this to start cloning humans. … They are — they are doing that here in the United States. American scientific companies are cross-breeding humans and animals and coming up with mice with fully functioning human brains.’ [O’Reilly Factor, 10/16/07]
O’Donnell is so fervently pro-truth that she wouldn’t lie to Nazis looking for Jews in her home. Appearing on Political Incorrect with Bill Maher, O’Donnell explained the
importance of truth-telling, refusing to even entertain the notion of lying when a guest asked if she would tell the truth to Nazis looking for Jews hiding in her home. “I believe if I were in that situation, God would provide a way to do the right thing righteously. I believe that! … You never have to practice deception” [ThinkProgress, 9/15/10]
O’Donnell called the Supreme Court a ‘constitutional monarchy.’ “It’s kind of like we have the nine people sitting there in Washington who have a constitutional monarchy and that is an abuse of the system but that’s the way that they push their agenda. And, if you’ll also notice, with all of these cases it’s a few people, a few people who oppose the masses.” [Savage Nation, 5/24/03]
O’Donnell explained why there were never WMD found in Iraq by comparing the war to raiding a ‘crack house.’ “One of the biggest lies that’s going on is that we had no reason to go in. … If we were going to invade a crack house, and we said, ‘We’re going to invade this crack house. We’re going to raid this crack house.’ For six months, we gave them warning. And then you walk in and you go, ‘Hey, there’s no crack. There’s only these little pipes. Now, there’s no crack with the little pipes, so we can’t assume that these pipes are used for crack.’” [Hardball, 6/20/03]
O’Donnell believes that spouses who have been cheated on possess compromised ‘purity.’ O’Donnell wrote in an article published in Cultural Dissident, “When a married person uses pornography, or is unfaithful, it compromises not just his (or her) purity, but also compromises the spouse’s purity.” [TPM, 9/7/10]
O’Donnell believes the proper role of a woman is to ’submit’ to her husband. ”This is not about merely a Baptist doctrine. This is a biblical doctrine. And the passage from the Bible the Baptist article is taken from talks about a submissive family. And yet, what the media seems to be reacting to is the word “submit” in the wives. But yet, even in, Mary, your introduction, you ignored or you left out where it says they graciously submit to a servant leader. And that is God’s design for the family. It is not about dominating and it is not about being a slave to your husband.” [CNN, 6/11/98]
O’Donnell wants her children to ’see Christ’ in her future husband. Explaining what she is looking for an ideal husband, O’Donnell said, “I want my children to see Christ in him.” [Wilmington News-Journal, 11/12/06]
GOOD LUCK WITH THAT LAST ONE, CHRISTINE!
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From Think Progress
Christine O’Donnell In Oct. 1999: ‘I Dabbled Into Witchcraft’
http://thinkprogress.org/2010/09/18/christine-odonnell-witchcraft/
Excerpt:
Before she stole the hearts of tea party activists, Delaware GOP Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell was best known for her regular and bizarre punditry on 22 different episodes of Politically Incorrect. The host of that show, Bill Maher, now has an HBO show called Real Time.
Last night, Real Time aired its first show of the current season. Maher began by mocking O’Donnell, calling her “an uemployed, anti-masturbation activist and a close friend of mine.” “I created her,” Maher told the audience, turning to the camera and stating, “You owe me Christine O’Donnell.” Maher said that he has great fondness for O’Donnell, adding, “She does not have a mean bone in her body, or any other bone in her body.”
Later in the show, Maher played a previously-unaired Oct. 29, 1999 clip of O’Donnell on Politically Incorrect, in which O’Donnell said she once “practiced witchcraft”:
O’DONNELL: I dabbled into witchcraft — I never joined a coven. But I did, I did. … I dabbled into witchcraft. I hung around people who were doing these things. I’m not making this stuff up. I know what they told me they do. […]
One of my first dates with a witch was on a satanic alter, and I didn’t know it. I mean, there’s little blood there and stuff like that. … We went to a movie and then had a midnight picnic on a satanic alter.
*****
“How stupid or uninformed do people have to be to actually believe the crap these Teapublicans are spewing?”
I think you already know the answer to that one! It will be interesting to see how many of them actually get elected–and if elected, what they do once they’re in office.
An ugly schmuck is a good way to describe Mr. Pal-adino. He is the perfect partner for Christine O’Donnell. How stupid or uninformed do people have to be to actually believe the crap these Teapublicans are spewing? Did Paladino violate any postal codes by sending garbage through the US mails? The hazmat suit that Prof. Turley suggests may soon be needed just to open your mail is actually needed just to read the filth these miscreants are saying!
I think there is a service out there for Mr.Paladino:
“Are people not seeing your inner beauty, are you an Ugly Schmuck?!”
http://www.uglyschmucks.com/
Feingold is the only one that voted against the original one in 2001. There were ten that voted against the renewal in 2006. I guess he is too liberal in the age of the tea party or as Larry Kudlow calls it “the free market revolution.” At the same time the republican tea party wants to curtail social freedoms.
Swarthmoremom,
I hope Feingold doesn’t lose. He’s one of the best senators we’ve got. Isn’t he the only one/one of the only ones who spoke out against and voted against the Patriot Act?
Alphonse D’Amato called Paladino “dangerous and mean spirited”. I don’t know what will motivate democratic voters to get out. Russ Feingold is losing in the latest poll. The angry white male has been joined by the angry white female to throw out the “socialists” who are not even socialists. This is a wacky election.
Lottakatz,
I’m definitely a night owl. There are sooooo many loonies around these days that I’m thinking about them all day long. We’re going to have some interesting political campaigns this fall. I wonder what Paladino’s next campaign tactic will be. Any thoughts?
Just when I have heard it all….or thought I did….
WI District Attorney Accused Of “Sexting” Domestic Violence Victim
Thursday, September 16th, 2010 5:00 am
The Calumet County, Wi., district attorney tried to start a relationship with a domestic violence victim by sending her 30 text messages over three days while he was prosecuting her ex-boyfriend, reports the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. District Attorney Kenneth Kratz asked if the woman is “the kind of girl that likes secret contact with an older married elected DA,” said a report from the Kaukauna Police Department. In another text, Kratz wrote, “I know this is wrong.”
http://thecrimereport.org/2010/09/16/wi-district-attorney-accused-of-sexting-domestic-violence-victim/
This is the same one that prosecuted the women whom super glued a mans penis at a motel, notel…..
This is kinda of unusual….Stinks….now if this guy extended his finger….would you pull it?
Hazmat suits to retrieve the mail?? How about the people who deliver it?
Oh yeah. During the anthrax mailings the dogs sent into find anthrax in the Capital were given drugs before the postal workers. Never mind.
Hi Ms. Elaine, are you a night owl too or has thinking about the loonies made it difficult to sleep?
Maybe what’s worse is what you find once you get past the ‘packaging’ and mailers. People that want to roll back progress to the point that Roe v. Wade is gone, regulation (what’s left of it) disappears, Iran becomes the next war-front, and the 2%ers get whatever of America’s wealth is currently in the rest of America’s pockets.
That’s the problem with advanced technology … it brings out the idiots.
I hope you’re going to have a Turley poll to determine who the craziest tea party backed candidate is. I think I’d have a hard time deciding who’s the looniest one of all.
What’s worse–sending out garbage-scented mailers or sending out racist and pornographic emails? Is this candidate for real?