PrintOctober 15, 2010
A 'Wild and Crazy Guy' for NY Governor?
With just eighteen days remaining in what has been by far the most bizarre yet entertaining election for Governor of New York in memory, the Republican-Conservative candidate -- Carl Paladino, a highly successful Buffalo businessman and attorney -- has pretty much blown it by allowing himself to be cast in the role of a nutjob.Cast in the role of hero and savior is the Democratic-Working Families Party (read: ACORN front) candidate, state attorney general Andrew Cuomo.It did not have to be like this. It almost wasn't.Why, pray tell, would any voter in his right mind think that a good choice for reforming the corrupt, dysfunctional gang that passes for a state government in Albany and rescuing the state from its disastrous policies is someone who has been an Albany insider his entire adult life and a devoted apostle for the very sort of thoughtless ultra-liberalism that has New York twirling on the brink of bankruptcy?New York has the highest state and local government taxes in the...(Read Full Article)
