{"id":2270,"date":"2010-06-24T12:54:44","date_gmt":"2010-06-24T16:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=2270"},"modified":"2010-06-24T12:54:44","modified_gmt":"2010-06-24T16:54:44","slug":"paladino-in-watertown-daily-times-paterson-a-drug-addict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/06\/24\/paladino-in-watertown-daily-times-paterson-a-drug-addict\/","title":{"rendered":"Paladino in Watertown Daily Times:  Paterson a drug addict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carl Paladino, who&#8217;s making an insurgent run for the Republican gubernatorial nomination, sat down with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.watertowndailytimes.com\/\">Watertown Daily Times<\/a> recently and accused Gov. David Paterson of being a drug addict &#8220;for his entire life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Paladino made the comments to illustrate his own claim that he&#8217;ll say whatever he feels like saying, and won&#8217;t be fettered by &#8220;political correctness.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Watch the video below.<\/p>\n<p>Paterson, who has won increasing respect the last few weeks for his budget-balancing efforts, has admitted to using illegal drugs as a young man, but there is no factual evidence of recent substance abuse.<\/p>\n<p>Nor did Paladino provide any evidence to support his claim, other than to suggest that Paterson &#8220;is not your friend.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the video, you can hear someone from Team Paladino suggesting that these comments were made off the record.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s worth noting that Paladino is currently polling around 16%&#8230;and that&#8217;s among Republican voters.<\/p>\n<p>Which means he may be the only politician in New York state who&#8217;s numbers are lower than Paterson&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"280\" height=\"170\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/_lPovGfma6U&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"280\" height=\"170\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/_lPovGfma6U&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carl Paladino, who&#8217;s making an insurgent run for the Republican gubernatorial nomination, sat down with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2270"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2276,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2270\/revisions\/2276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}