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Carl Paladino and Tom Ognibene: The All-Italian GOP Ticket
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| Contributor | e. dantes |
| Last Edited | e. dantes Jun 10, 2010 01:19am |
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| Category | Announcement |
| Author | Tom Robbins |
| News Date | Tuesday, June 8, 2010 02:55:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Carl Paladino, the mega-millionaire rebel from Buffalo who wants to be governor, kicks off his petition drive today to force his way into a uno-a-uno primary against official Republican party candidate Rick Lazio. And he's running on an all-Paisan Party ticket, he announced last night. In a sit-down with Capitol Tonight's Liz Benjamin, Paladino grudgingly gave up the name of his pick for lieutenant governor and it's the goateed former Queens councilman Tom Ognibene, the Italian Stallion from Ridgewood.
Picking a fellow paisan is pure Paladino. Most gubernatorial wannabes look for some kind of ethnic balance in their ticket, however awkward the fit (Spitzer-Paterson; Cuomo-Duffy; Lazio-Edwards). Not Paladino, the straight-talking emailer who vows to clean up Albany with a baseball bat, not some wimpy whisk broom. (Did you know that Paladino means paladin in Italian?)
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