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Carl Paladino was the 2010 Republican candidate for governor of New York, but now the tea party activist is not even welcome at a Buffalo School Board meeting.

On Wednesday, the former candidate found himself being escorted from a school board meeting by security guards after he began ranting about how badly board members had handled a sewage problem at Math Science Technology Prep in Seneca.

"In a couple months the ground rules are going to change here, that kind of nonsense isn’t going to happen," Paladino promised the board, according to The Buffalo News. “Six weeks. I would’ve fired [Joseph P. Giusiana, head of plant services] after the first week. He can’t fix a sewer line leak because he’s in bed with Ciminelli?”

LP Ciminelli is a contractor working on a $1 billion project to make schools in the district more energy efficient.

"This is a not a forum to attack anyone," Board President Mary Ruth Kapsiak told Paladino, adding that he would be asked to leave if the verbal attacks continued. "We have the security people here."

"I want to know why this School Board condones a cover-up of the criminality of what’s going on in the schools," Paladino shot back.

At that point, Kapsiak summoned security.

"You have to go," she said. "Right now, you're out of line."

"You're out of line," Paladino quipped as he was escorted from the room.

The next day, the former gubernatorial candidate announced that he would run for a seat on the Buffalo School Board.

Paladino told WBBZ-TV that he was running "because of the inability of the current members of the school board to comprehend the challenges they have as a board."

Buffalo Teachers Federation President Phil Rumore on Friday said that Paladino was "demented" and didn't deserve to be on the school board because he had been caught forwarding emails that included bestiality, pornography and racism.

"Women having sex with each other, women completely unclad, African-Americans being apparently run over by an airplane," Rumore told WFBO. "It is really sick that anybody would give any kind of credibility to somebody like this being on a board of education."

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From The Last Word: Lawrence O'Donnell explains the right and wrong way to give a concession speech, with examples from this year's mid-term elections.

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New York gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino attempted Monday to reverse the damage done when he told Jewish Orthodox leaders that he doesn't want children "brainwashed into thinking that homosexuality" is acceptable.

"I'm not a homophobic," he told ABC's George Stephanopolous.

"I have no reservations whatsoever about gays, only except for marriage," he said.

The candidate said that he disagreed with his opponent, Andrew Cuomo, who took his children to a gay pride parade.

"I was at one in Toronto one time. We stumbled on it, my wife and I. It wasn't pretty. It was a bunch of very extreme type people in bikini-type outfits grinding at each other and doing these gyrations and I certainly wouldn't let my young children see that," Paladino explained.

When pressed by Stephanopoulos, Paladino said that he wasn't sure if homosexuality was a choice.

"I've had difficulty with that," he said. "I believe that young people should not necessarily be exposed to that."

Appearing later on NBC, the candidate said that he would not discriminate against gays in his business or personal life.

Paladino also appeared on CBS and Fox News to explain his comments.

Carl Paladino speaking Sunday at Borough Park at the Karlsberg Synagogue on 53rd Street and later at Kohel Adas Kasho On Ross Street in Williamsburg. From the Ny Daily News:

Speaking to a group of Orthodox Jewish leaders in Borough Park, Paladino noted how he boycotted the Gay Pride parade Democratic foe Andrew Cuomo marched in, along with his daughters, this summer.

"There is nothing to be proud of in being a dysfunctional homoxsexual," he said. "That's not how G-d created us, and that's not the example that we should be showing our children -- and certainly not in our schools."

Not suprisingly, Paladino said he would veto any legislation that seeks to legalize gay marriage in New York.

"I just think my children and your children would be much better off and much more successful getting married and raising a family, and I don't want them brainwashed into thinking that homosexuality is an equally valid and successful option," he said. "It isn't."

Calling himself the "religious values candidate," he said "I will not support immoral legislation."

The Cuomo campaign released a statement on Paladino's obvious homophobia:

Mr. Paladino's statement displays a stunning homophobia and a glaring disregard for basic equality. These comments along with other views he has espoused make it clear that he is way out of the mainstream and is unfit to represent New York.

Edit: There's been some walkback by Paladino that he didn't ever say "dysfunctional homosexuals", as he left that out of his prepared remarks. Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo tries to make sense of it all, which is probably an impossible task with the crazy campaign of Carl Paladino.

To a significant degree, this does back up Paladino's claim. It was a 'version' of the speech prepared by the rabbis. But if I'm reading this right, that's the version Paladino was reading from. Otherwise that 'winced' reference makes no sense. And that makes the whole story even weirder then version one in my book.

So Paladino was reading from a speech that was prepared for him by his hosts? Not that pols don't often solicit and accept quite a bit of input from potential supporters about what they want to hear. But this would seem to take things to a new level entirely.

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Some Republican candidates may be offering voters more than they bargained for in the fall midterms.

At least four prominent GOP candidates have claimed to have received classified information or have special roles in law enforcement. MSNBC's Rachel Maddow pointed out Monday that in each case there is little or no evidence to back up the candidates' claims.

"There are a lot of secret agents," said Maddow. "Fake secret agents running for office this year."

First, Maddow reported the latest news that Senate candidate from Delaware Christine O'Donnell had once claimed that she had access to classified information which showed that China was plotting to take over the US.

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Keith makes Jan Brewer his 'Worst Person' for for her interview with Univision's Jorge Ramos where she stood by her claims that a great deal of illegal immigrants are "drug mules" and pretended she apologized "immediately" for her statement about the beheadings that she lied about that were supposedly going on at the border. I keep wondering just how worse of a candidate Brewer has to become before the wingnut electorate of Arizona won't vote for her.

She's pretty much evidence that among a lot of other Republican candidates, it doesn't matter what you say or what you do, there is no way common sense is going to make its way into the minds of the Republican base that apparently has no concern over whether their candidates this year have IQ's over 90 or that any of their positions are grounded in anything like facts instead of wingnut talking points. This woman should not have had a chance in hell of being elected and would not have until she decided to start making fear mongering over illegals the center point of her campaign. It's a sad, sad statement about the electorate of her state and that of the country when they respond in the way they have to this sort of hatred and race baiting.

The runners up went to whoever scheduled Rudy Giuliani to appear at "Total Tool".

And to Carl Paladino for telling Andrew Cuomo to "Come out and debate like a man."

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I thought these "Tea Party" candidates were supposed to be against "big government". Rick Sanchez had a somewhat contentious interview with the winner of the Republican gubernatorial race, Carl Paladino, yesterday on CNN. Paladino advocated seizing the site where the Park 51 Islamic Center is being proposed by using eminent domain, and he also said that no mosques or Islamic centers should be allowed to be built anywhere the dust cloud that carried human remains was located around ground zero. As Rick Sanchez pointed out to him, that stretched out quite a bit farther than the 1/4 mile or so Paladino was claiming.

I think this wingnut just handed his Democratic opponent Andrew Cuomo a huge gift with his election. And as Digby reminded us today, here are some of the things he sent out in some emails awhile backm, if you haven't already seen them -- All In "Good Fun".

This vile man was also very glib on his stand on abortion and stated that a woman should be forced to have the baby even cases of rape and incest and "the baby can be adopted". How charitable of him.

Here's the transcript via CNN where Sanchez followed up after arguing with him for almost 10 minutes over the building of the Islamic center:

SANCHEZ: All right.

We're back with Carl Paladino, who was the victor last night in the Republican gubernatorial race. He's kind enough to join us.

And we are -- we have congratulated him for -- for this win, which takes him on to the general now in November.

You -- you said something interesting a while ago that caught my attention, because I was there during 9/11. I witnessed the second tower falling down. And I remember what you were explaining a little while -- when you said the dust cloud.

You said the dust -- you said you want to respect that whole area anywhere in the dust cloud that carried the human remains of the victims who died there that day. So, I -- I -- I believe what I hear you saying is, then, that you wouldn't want any mosque or Islamic center built anywhere in that area where the dust cloud was?

Because that was a vast -- if you recall, I mean, it stretched all the way to Weehawken, to parts of Hoboken, to, you know, all -- block -- miles from where this thing happened, right?

PALADINO: No, I don't think it went out that far. It went out about a quarter-of-a-mile, I think.

SANCHEZ: You would -- OK. So, is that what you're saying?

PALADINO: Yes.

SANCHEZ: Within a quarter-mile radius of Ground Zero, you do not want any --

PALADINO: Well, I -- I don't know the -- I don't know the exact distance. I don't mean to make out that I know the exact distance.

But wherever it went, wherever that dust is caught in the crevices of buildings or in the crevices of sidewalks, that's human remains, and it should be treated that way.

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Tea Party candidate for NY Governor Carl Paladino wins Keith's Worst Persons for this, from TPM. Tea Party NY Gov Candidate's E-Mails Exposed: Racism, Porn, Bestiality:

An online news outlet in New York state has obtained dozens of emails, many of them racist and sexually graphic, which it reports were sent by Carl Paladino, the Tea-Party-backed Republican candidate for governor of New York, to a long list of political and business associates. One email shows a video of an African tribal dance, entitled "Obama Inauguration Rehearsal," while another depicts hardcore bestiality.

Paladino's campaign manager, Michael Caputo, would not comment on specific emails, but acknowledged to TPMmuckraker that Paladino had sent emails that were "off-color" and "politically incorrect," saying that few such emails represented the candidate's own opinion. Caputo accused Democrats of wanting to change the subject from substantive issues to "having sex with horses."

As TPM noted, here are "some of the most eyebrow-raising":

• An October 2009 email with a photograph showing President Obama and the First Lady dressed in 70s-era blaxploitation pimp and prostitute costumes while attending a formal event at the White House. Here's the photo, courtesy of WNYmedia.net:

• A December 2008 email showing a video of African tribesmen performing a traditional dance. The video is entitled "Obama Inauguration Rehearsal."

• A September 2009 email entitled, "Easy Steady Big Fella....XXXX," with a photograph that graphically depicts a horse having sex with a woman.

• A January 2010 email, containing a hardcore pornographic video entitled "Miss France 2008 F[***]ing."

• A July 2009 email showing a photograph of an airplane landing directly behind a group of black men. The caption reads: "Holy Sh*t. run ni**ers, run!"

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Keith's runners up were John Derbyshire -- John Derbyshire tells black law students they are inferior and Glenn Beck -- Beck states that Obama has said of tea partiers, "You are either with the president, or you're a terrorist".

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Ed Schultz Psycho Talk for March 23, 2010 featuring Glenn Beck -- Beck compares health care reform to Flight 93 on 9/11, Pearl Harbor, Chamberlain meeting Hitler, and Hindenburg and Carl Paladino -- More Proof That Republicans Care Nothing About 9/11.