[Vision2020] Tea Party Candidate's E-Mails Exposed: Racism, Porn, Bestiality

[Tom Hansen]

Courtesy of Talking Points Memo at:

http://tinyurl.com/Tea-Party-Carl-Paladino

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Tea Party NY Gov Candidate's E-Mails Exposed: Racism, Porn, Bestiality

An online news outlet in New York state has obtained dozens of emails,
many of them racist and sexually graphic, which it reports were sent by
Carl Paladino, the Tea-Party-backed Republican candidate for governor of
New York, to a long list of political and business associates. One email
shows a video of an African tribal dance, entitled "Obama Inauguration
Rehearsal," while another depicts hardcore bestiality.

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New York gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino

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Paladino's campaign manager, Michael Caputo, would not comment on specific
emails, but acknowledged to TPMmuckraker that Paladino had sent emails
that were "off-color" and "politically incorrect," saying that few such
emails represented the candidate's own opinion. Caputo accused Democrats
of wanting to change the subject from substantive issues to "having sex
with horses."

The news outlet that obtained the emails, WNYmedia.net, a western New York
media company, says it confirmed that at least some of the emails were
authentic by contacting several people who had received them.

Paladino, a wealthy western New York real-estate developer, has become a
darling of the Tea Party movement over the last year, and launched his
campaign for governor last week after being urged to do so by Tea Party
leaders. Paladino is staunchly opposed to abortion and same-sex marriage,
and has said he considers himself "the only Republican in the race who
agrees 100 percent with conservative values."

But the slew of emails, obtained by WNYmedia.net, a western New York media
company, depict a different side of the candidate. Here are descriptions
some of the most eyebrow-raising:

• An October 2009 email with a photograph showing President Obama and the
First Lady dressed in 70s-era blaxploitation pimp and prostitute costumes
while attending a formal event at the White House. Here's the photo,
courtesy of WNYmedia.net:

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/images/obamas-paladino-email.jpg

• A December 2008 email showing a video of African tribesmen performing a
traditional dance. The video is entitled "Obama Inauguration Rehearsal."

• A September 2009 email entitled, "Easy Steady Big Fella....XXXX," with a
photograph that graphically depicts a horse having sex with a woman.

• A January 2010 email, containing a hardcore pornographic video entitled
"Miss France 2008 F[***]ing."

• A July 2009 email showing a photograph of an airplane landing directly
behind a group of black men. The caption reads: "Holy Sh*t. run ni**ers,
run!"

When one recipient complained about the "Obama inauguration" email,
calling Paladino a racist, Paladino responded by apologizing "if that is
offensive." He added: "I'm not a racist and have never related Obama's
color to my political distaste for him....I'm not sensitive to ethnic
humor."

Other emails from Paladino are here. All the emails were either originally
sent, or forwarded, by Paladino, WNYmedia confirms. The emails went to a
long list of Paladino associates, in local and state government, politics,
and business.

In a statement to TPMmuckraker, Caputo, the campaign manager, said:

"Carl Paladino has forwarded close friends hundreds of email messages he
received. Many of these emails he received were off color, some were
politically incorrect, few represented his own opinion, and almost none of
them were worth remembering."

We're not surprised the political establishment feels threatened by Carl's
drive the take Albany back for taxpayers. Our campaign won't be wading
through the details of what is just another liberal Democrat blog smear.
It figures that members of the Party who brought us record taxes, record
spending and record debt would want to change the topic from reform to
having sex with horses and S&M parlors.

The S&M parlor is a reference to one of Paladino's rivals for the GOP
nomination, Steve Levy, who, it was reported today, once lived with an
ex-con who had pleaded guilty in a mortgage fraud scheme involving an S&M
club.

Paladino lacks the institutional support enjoyed by the front-runners for
the GOP nomination, former congressman Rick Lazio and Levy, a county
executive. But Paladino has said he's willing to spend $10 million of his
own fortune on the race, meaning he could be a factor nonetheless.

This is hardly the first time that the outspoken Paladino, 63, has courted
controversy. He recently said that health-care reform "will kill more
Americans through deteriorating health care than were lost on 9/11." After
Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) criticized the comment, Paladino declared in a
letter in response: "I am not impressed that you kissed enough asses to
chair a committee of politicians in the Congress."

In 2008, he said at a public forum in Buffalo that the only reason Public
Schools Superintendent James Williams had been hired was because he is
black.

And we recently learned that the long-married, conservative Paladino
fathered a child during an extramarital affair in the 90s.

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Seeya round town, Moscow.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

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