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.”