It makes less sense that she'd want him alongside her in New York's congressional delegation. It seemingly makes little sense that Stefanik would want Paladino on the ballot in the fall, given the headaches he will cause every New York Republican. Why? Your guess is as good or better than mine. Get the story behind Chris Churchill’s latest columns. The North Country Republican has endorsed Paladino and is throwing her not inconsiderable power behind his candidacy.
New York Republican Party Chairman Nick Langworthy has entered the race, promising a "candidacy free of distraction" instead of Paladino's "circus sideshow."īut our own Elise Stefanik, it turns out, prefers the circus - so much so that she's buying ringside seats. Thankfully, Paladino has serious primary competition in the newly drawn 23rd, which includes some Buffalo suburbs and extends eastward along the Pennsylvania border to Chemung County. And I know this from my personal experience in 2018, carrying the party's banner in New York state." "Not 'racially insensitive' not 'unsophisticated' a straight-up, old-school racist. "Carl Paladino is a racist," said Keith Wofford, a Black Republican who four years ago ran for attorney general. The man who once said Michelle Obama "should return to being a male and let loose in the outback of Zimbabwe" would be a fountain of stupidity and ignorance. If Paladino were to win the general election in the red-leaning district, he'd be an embarrassment for all of New York. If the Buffalo-based developer were to win the upcoming Republican primary, he would be an attention-sucking and message-destroying embarrassment to the state's GOP, putting winnable races all across the state, including the governor's race, at risk for the party.
As the National Review's Kevin Williamson put it, Greene is "the sort of self-serving malicious dunce who should be kept as far away from political power as possible." He just meant that Hitler "was a very popular person" with the "ability to move an entire population."Īnd so, it's more obvious than ever that Paladino has no more business in Congress than Greene, a conspiracy theorist extraordinaire who infamously blamed the 2018 California wildfires on space lasers controlled by a corporate cabal. Paladino, who is 75, subsequently apologized and explained that he wasn't talking about all the bad stuff, of course. Hitler got things done all right, including genocide and a totalitarian takeover of much of Europe. We need somebody that is a doer, has been there and done it."Ī doer? Oh, yes. "I guess that's the kind of leader we need today," he said. That controversy proved a prelude to the next when the liberal group Media Matters published a 2021 radio interview in which Paladino said what America needs is a strong leader like. "I just didn't remember the fact that I published it." "Yes, I did it," the Republican told the Buffalo News. Paladino at first claimed he didn't put the post authored by somebody else on his page, before quickly admitting he had. Just days after Paladino entered the 23rd Congressional District race earlier this month, voters were hearing about his Facebook post and email blast claiming "false flag" government involvement in the mass shootings in Buffalo and Uvalde. Well, he's back and irresponsible as ever. How could anyone forget crazy Carl, who was clobbered by Andrew Cuomo in the 2010 governor's race?