Republican gubernatorial nominee Carl Paladino is planning to make some sort of major television announcement tomorrow at 5:13 p.m., my sources tell me.
"Paladino has purchased a [block of TV time] in Buffalo with the 3 network affiliates at 5:13 with a satellite uplink avail for downstate media. You cannot turn on the major channels with-out seeing Carl.
"The broadcast will be rerun in Rochester, Albany and Syracuse (broadcast ) and Channel 12 on LI, plus Westchester Fox cable later that evening," Source 1 tells me. "YNN and NY-1 [were] asked to sell Paladino time for statewide reach -- they both declined. [He is] trying to buy FOX statewide at 5:13... Simulcast difficult -- may be on at 6 p.m. Huge audience. Then the campaign looked to put it up statewide on a Sports network where few women watch. [It] fell through -- too complicated for simulcast. [About] 45 % of general elections upstate will see it.... Satellite will reach [approximately] another 30 % through news outlets."
Paladino is taping this message -- whatever it may be -- at 4 p.m., and it will post online at 5:13 p.m., Source 1 said.
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"He's getting contacted by a lot of Republicans, Conservatives and Tea Party leaders... At a Democrat rally [tonight] he was talking to some very old friends [from Buffalo]."
Paladino, Source 2 said, went home and "he's spending time there, and he's making his mind up what he's going do. There are party regulars telling him he needs to apologize. There are party irregulars telling him to go foward and reveal" some sort of bad oppo about Cuomo. "He's taking his own counsel."
The only thing that seems not to be in the works is a Paladino announcement that he's pulling out of the race... But who knows???
Paladino "taking his own counsel" is a scary thought indeed.
So what do you think he's up to? A McCain-esque "suspension" of his campaign while he does...I dunno, something? Does he reveal some sort of evidence of Cuomo shenanigans? Does he go all Ross Perot on us and reveal a plot against his family? Does he apologize for something (or everything?)
