I cannot, nay, will not believe that New Yorkers will vote for this bloke.
He is nucking futs.
Just saw this interview and am shamelessly copy and pasting it from Crooks and Liars.
Please Democrats, save the planet from these awful, awful people.
The whole thing is appalling, from his views on Park 51 to his views on abortion.
http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/...
Link to CNN Transcript
http://transcripts.cnn.com/...
Highlights
(lowlights really)
PALADINO: Oh, I'm sorry. I missed the point.
Yes, let me explain -- let me explain That. Eminent domain is a very broad term. You can actually take property or you can just put a restriction on property. In this case, it would be a restriction on the use of a property that a zoning board would consider the issue when proposed use is introduced for any property within the district.
SANCHEZ: So --
PALADINO: And -- and if it -- if -- if that zoning board determines that it is an affront in any way to the American people or those memories, then -- then it would be rejected.
SANCHEZ: So, you believe that a government --
PALADINO: The use would be rejected.
SANCHEZ: -- a government has a right to make a decision, a property-rights decision, based on its own sensibilities, how it's affected? How -- how would that stop in the future someone from --
PALADINO: We do it every day in zoning -- we do it every day in zoning law.
SANCHEZ: But what -- how -- but, in this case, you're --
(CROSSTALK)
PALADINO: Zoning laws --
SANCHEZ: But this case, it's a First Amendment argument that you're -- that you're deciding.
PALADINO: No, we're not.
SANCHEZ: Aside from sensibilities, if the Constitution says --
PALADINO: No.
SANCHEZ: -- we have a right to worship as we please where we please, how can you go in and say, I don't want you worshipping --
PALADINO: We're doing --
SANCHEZ: -- that way there because it affects my sensibilities?
PALADINO: I have -- I have clearly said to you that it is my opinion this is not a question of freedom of religion.
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SANCHEZ: Here's what you say.
I am not advocating anything.
Here's what you say. "As governor of the state of New York, I will have the legal power to use the state's right of eminent domain to seize this site and make it a memorial of which we can all be proud. That is exactly what I will do if I am elected governor."
So, as a journalist, then I ask you, if you're so sure you can do this, and this is what you have promised to the people who voted for you last night, how is it that you will be able to do this? Under what legal grounds will you be able to take that property away from those people?
PALADINO: Well, we will -- we will declare it, under the law, to be a property -- a right for -- which is within the definition of public use, and as long as it is within the definition of public use, which -- which comes -- which includes the zoning restrictions, then we would have a right to use eminent domain to place such a restriction over all the properties in that area.
Obviously, it could not -- it could not cover the present use of properties. If the properties are presently legally used for a different purpose, they would be nonconforming uses.
But any future use that might be proposed, where there's a change of use or a new use to a new building, say, then -- then, in that case, they would have to go before a zoning board. And the zoning board would have to consider whether or not it is -- it is an affront to that memory of those people.
So, he wants a small government, would that be just him and a couple of buddies?.
snip.....
SANCHEZ: But, by the way, when you say you will stand for the American people, I think you're saying you will stand for a certain sector of the American people who you believe agree with you, just -- just for the record.
Let me ask you some questions about your positions that people would want to know about.
Same-sex marriage, where do you stand on that?
PALADINO: No.
SANCHEZ: Man -- how do you feel about unions between same-sex couples?
PALADINO: It's fine. I think the -- well, if the definition of unions is what we have right now --
SANCHEZ: Uh-huh.
PALADINO: -- I'm fine with that. I have no -- no anxiety over it.
SANCHEZ: Abortion.
PALADINO: But --
(CROSSTALK)
PALADINO: -- carry it further into -- no.
SANCHEZ: How do you feel -- what is your position on abortion?
PALADINO: No.
SANCHEZ: Should a woman have a right to have an abortion if she's -- if she's been raped?
PALADINO: No.
SANCHEZ: She should not? She should have to have the baby?
PALADINO: And the baby can be adopted, yes.
SANCHEZ: What if it's -- what if it's a case of incest?
PALADINO: The baby can be adopted, yes.
Oh Hell, it's all bad, please link and read the whole thing if you can't access the vid.
I would think Cuomo is knocking up campaign ads from this as we speak.