Carl Paladino Tea Party Candidate For NY Governor Racially Offensive Remarks – The candidacy for New York governor is getting even more heated, as Tea Party favorite Carl Paladino, has entered the race.
Promising to vigorously attack New York’s entrenched political leadership, forcefully push his anti-spending, anti-tax message, while not backing down from past controversial stances, the Republican businessman is a force to be reckoned with.
Though he’s rarely known in the rest of the state, the 63-year-old developer is a legend in Buffalo, where he’s made some powerful enemies and stirred up plenty of scandal.
Less than two years ago, he was accused of making racially offensive comments during a public forum by local lawmakers, reports the HuffingtonPost.com. The outspoken developer caused controversy at the forum by claiming that the only reason Buffalo Public Schools Superintendent James Williams had been hired was because he is black.
In response, several members of the Buffalo Common Council proposed a resolution condemning Paladino for making “racially offensive comments” and requesting that New York’s legislature pass a law to allow government agencies to back out of contracts and leases with people who make “racially-offensive or insensitive remarks.”
Paladino’s campaign manager says that the candidate stands by his comments, noting that the resolution passed on a split vote. “He’s never taken back his words,” Michael Caputo told the Huffington Post. “They may not like it but it happens to be the truth. They (the school board) hired a search firm to look for an African-American candidate.”
Paladino is downtown Buffalo’s biggest landlord, with $85 million in leases for New York State offices.
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What Carl Paladino said is not a racist statement. As a black person, I am not offended by the statement. We all know that Barack Obama is president because he is black. There I said it, does that make me a racist too.
Pam, if you believe that irrelevant garbage you just spewed, then YES YOU ARE.
it may be that Buffalo hired a search firm to hire a black school super. I know they have a black mayor. But how that relates to Obama, who clearly was the best candidate and supported by a large cross-section of people, running against a woman who was also popularly favored (would her election mean that Hillary would be president only because she’s a woman?) and standing firm against an ocean of white men who don’t all agree with him, with not a whole lot of support from the Congressional Black Caucus, suggests to me that you don’t know what you’re talking about.
Now that the emails with racist comments and freaky sexual images against women and horses, what do you think of Paladino now?
btw, you ain’t black i suspect.
I just love it when white racists start their comments with the phrase “I am black”. Baloney.
I have a question for all of you-what does the color of someone’s skin have to do with their ability to do the job?
In case your wondering, I am not african american, I am female and I did vote for Obama. I would not vote for Palin if she paid me too! I also will not vote for anyone who makes racist remarks about any one.
A lot of our problems are being blamed on Obama need I remind everyone as to when some of these problems started and it was long before he got the job.
problems are being blamed on obama BUT obama has created some very significant problems on his own. so significant that they are just as bad if not worse than bush.
btw, paladino is not racist. jus love it when people say things like i would never vote for a racist lol. keep ur stupid vote then. i would rather vote for an honest person like paladino (if he does not switch stripes after election like obama) than a nonracist liar like obama.