{"id":2875,"date":"2010-09-14T01:06:35","date_gmt":"2010-09-14T08:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=2875"},"modified":"2010-09-14T01:06:35","modified_gmt":"2010-09-14T08:06:35","slug":"republican-racism-strikes-again-in-ny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/09\/14\/republican-racism-strikes-again-in-ny\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican Racism Strikes Again in NY"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rarely does a day pass that the Republicans do not serve up yet another example of how they have transformed into the party of hate.  Today\u2019s choice is more extreme than most, and according to the polls, he has a 50-50 chance of being the NY gubernatorial nominee.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"14paladino\" Carl Paladino, the Tea Party favorite for New York governor, is in hot water yet again.<\/p>\n

As the Huffington Post uncovered last week<\/a>, the multi-millionaire developer has a history of being "racially offensive" and putting forth derogatory comments. Today the blog WNYmedia.net<\/a> published a series of bombshell emails that Paladino sent around or forwarded on to friends, associates and coworkers.<\/p>\n

These emails run the gamut from your standard email chain smut to greatly disturbing racist imagery. Many of the latter type of emails targeted President Obama and his wife Michelle\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Rachel Maddow interviewed WNYmedia\u2019s Marc Odien:<\/font><\/p>\n

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Visit msnbc.com for breaking news<\/a>, world news<\/a>, and news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Sadly, this is a lot more widespread than this creep.  I have seen every one of the examples Rachel included before.  The scary part is not that this guy is running for office.  Any wing-nut can do that.  The scary part is that, even in NY, where Republicans used to be moderate, the Republicans may well choose him.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rarely does a day pass that the Republicans do not serve up yet another example of how they have transformed into the party of hate.  Today\u2019s choice is more extreme than most, and according to the polls, he has a 50-50 chance of being the NY gubernatorial nominee. Carl Paladino, the Tea Party favorite for […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}