Paladino: 'I'm Not Politically Correct And I Don't Want To Be!'

Carl Paladino, the Republican candidate for governor in New York, certainly lived up to his reputation as a tough-talking, mad-as-hell kind of guy in a conversation he just had with All Things Considered co-host Robert Siegel.

As Paladino said at one point, with considerable passion: "I'm not politically correct and I don't want to be!"

To be fair, they covered subjects of substance, including which state agencies Paladino thinks need to be closed immediately (including the Division of Housing and Community Renewal; Paladino says an "enterprise" agency can do the same work more effectively).

And they touched on Paladino's support from the Tea Party movement. The candidate said that calling him a Tea Party candidate "goes a little bit further than it actually is. ... I'm a candidate for governor of the state of New York, supported and endorsed by the Republican Party and the Conservative Party and the Tea Party movement also."

But when they got to some of the headline moments of the campaign so far, the volume went up.

 

— Robert asked about the viral video of Paladino's confrontation with New York Post Albany bureau chief Fred Dicker. At one point in that encounter, Paladino said to Dicker that if "you send another goon to my daughter's house ... I'll take you out, buddy."

Today, Paladino told Robert that during the confrontation, "I didn't lose it ... absolutely not. ... I'm a father, sir ... I didn't lose anything. ... I did what is not politically correct."

He also went on to accuse Dicker of being part of an "elitist press" that is supposedly in the pocket of politicians such as the state's attorney general, Andrew Cuomo (the Democratic nominee for governor).

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Independents Not Buying Dems' Core Messages

Greg Sargent, Plum LineIf Dems are going to avert a major bloodbath in November, they need independents to embrace two core Dem messages that seem particularly geared towards those voters: The claim that a vote for the GOP is a vote to return to Bush policies; and the assertion that the GOP has been hijacked by whackjob Tea Party extremists.But it appears that indy voters are not yet buying either of these messages in the numbers Dems need, according to internals of the new Post poll that were sent my way.The Post poll asked likely voters: If the Republicans win control of Congress, will they lead the country in a...

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Paladino: 'I'm Not Politically Correct And I Don't Want To Be!'

Carl Paladino, the Republican candidate for governor in New York, certainly lived up to his reputation as a tough-talking, mad-as-hell kind of guy in a conversation he just had with All Things Considered co-host Robert Siegel.

As Paladino said at one point, with considerable passion: "I'm not politically correct and I don't want to be!"

To be fair, they covered subjects of substance, including which state agencies Paladino thinks need to be closed immediately (including the Division of Housing and Community Renewal; Paladino says an "enterprise" agency can do the same work more effectively).

And they touched on Paladino's support from the Tea Party movement. The candidate said that calling him a Tea Party candidate "goes a little bit further than it actually is. ... I'm a candidate for governor of the state of New York, supported and endorsed by the Republican Party and the Conservative Party and the Tea Party movement also."

But when they got to some of the headline moments of the campaign so far, the volume went up.

 

— Robert asked about the viral video of Paladino's confrontation with New York Post Albany bureau chief Fred Dicker. At one point in that encounter, Paladino said to Dicker that if "you send another goon to my daughter's house ... I'll take you out, buddy."

Today, Paladino told Robert that during the confrontation, "I didn't lose it ... absolutely not. ... I'm a father, sir ... I didn't lose anything. ... I did what is not politically correct."

He also went on to accuse Dicker of being part of an "elitist press" that is supposedly in the pocket of politicians such as the state's attorney general, Andrew Cuomo (the Democratic nominee for governor).

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We Need Wasteful Government Spending

Jonathan Cohn, New RepublicA new government report says the stimulus was virtually free of waste, fraud, and abuse. This is supposed to be good news. I'm not so sure.The report, which Vice President Joe Biden officially delivered to the president on Friday, is the official 2010 audit of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. It's a full accounting of how the government has spent Recovery Act money, but it's the section on waste that's gotten the most attention.And rightly so. Of the nearly 200,000 prime and sub contracts that the Recovery Act awarded, just 293 led to "consequential...

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