Yet another reason that Carl Palin-dino would be a miserable failure as a Governor, is that he would fill our government with political hacks with ethical weaknesses (even more so than usual). The Times just published an enlightening expose:
But some of the people whom Mr. Paladino has recruited to run his campaign are plagued by brushes with the law and allegations of misconduct, an examination of public records shows.
His campaign manager failed to pay nearly $53,000 in federal taxes over the last few years, prompting the Internal Revenue Service to take action against him. An aide who frequently drives Mr. Paladino on the campaign trail served jail time in Arizona on charges of drunken driving.
Another adviser has been indicted on charges of stealing more than $1 million from Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's re-election bid last year. And Mr. Paladino's campaign chairwoman left a local government position amid claims that she had steered $1 billion in public money to a politically connected investment manager.
Their backgrounds could raise questions about the kind of cabinet Mr. Paladino, a Republican, would assemble if elected in November and cast doubt on his ability to radically remake the dysfunctional culture of Albany, government watchdogs said.
And who did Palin-dino hire to be his campaign driver? Why, the crazy teabagger Rus Thompson, who is certainly qualified to be a campaign driver, but not a communications strategist, because he is a teabagging blogger with a DUI. But at least Palin-dino's campaign manager, Michael Caputo has an enlightened view of this:
In an interview, Michael R. Caputo, the campaign manager who ran afoul of the I.R.S., said, "This is a campaign of junkyard dogs, not pedigreed poodles."
Yeah, people who live their lives ethically are "pedigreed poodles." Only pussies don't go around embezzling funds and cheating the IRS! And of course, only a multimillionaire businessman has the real-man mentality to protect our state from all those pedigreed poodles and their elitist ethics!
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