Carl Paladino, a wealthy Western New York developer, and lawyer, ran on the Republican line against New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo in 2010 and lost. However, Paladino emerged as a champion to much of rural and conservative upstate New York where he handily beat Cuomo in numerous counties.
New York City, however, easily offset the plurality Paladino achieved upstate and chose the governor for the state, [as they usually do].
There are really two distinct regions in New York State – New York City and the rest of the state. The rest of the state is largely conservative and Republican, with the exception of Democrat strongholds in Buffalo and Rochester [but even their suburbs are often Republican].
Paladino is an avid Trump supporter with a wide following of conservatives. He can draw crowds not entirely unlike Trump.
He released this op-ed today about the state’s lockdown and about the man he ran against who some are canonizing as Saint Andrew Cuomo based on his televised briefings on his handling of the virus.
Today, Cuomo has decreed that Western New York – which includes Buffalo and Niagara Falls can start the first phase of reopening tomorrow, a limited opening that permits some construction, manufacturing and certain retail formerly deemed by his fiat as “non-essential” to open and provide curbside service only.
This is not necessarily a local story since it speaks to “the freedom versus safety” issue inherent in this pandemic and government’s handling of it. Here we have a genuine conservative, perhaps in his own local world as controversial as Trump, giving his view of governance and the rights of people during times of crisis and peril.
By Carl Paladino
I have spoken with many concerned businessmen over the past three weeks. They have asked me to help organize a rally, maybe Tuesday or Wednesday, at the Ellicott Square lobby at noon, to bring hundreds of small business owners together, and have a couple of speakers outline their thoughts on the matter to see if there is a willingness to declare and then open for business on a specific day, defying New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s illegal and unconstitutional lockdown and/or bring a lawsuit.
An attorney has researched the legality of the lockdown. Cuomo’s emergency directive can only be made once every 30 days to maintain the status quo on an urgent issue while allowing time to be considered by the legislature. The law says that no “suspension or directive shall be made for a period in excess of 20 days, provided, however, that upon reconsideration of all relevant facts and circumstances, the governor may ‘extend the suspension’ for additional periods to exceed thirty days each.” He can extend suspensions, but not new directives, which is what the shutdown is and it’s over 50 days old.
The dictatorial Cuomo can only reissue the 30-day directive with the consent of the legislature. The lame NY legislature passed a law giving Cuomo the power to make laws which, in and of itself, is unconstitutional. It cannot delegate its power to legislate. There is an excellent case for a lawsuit for an injunction in Niagara County, where the judges are much brighter, [than Erie County] however it will take a great deal of time and money, estimated at $100,000. Trump announced today we will have a vaccine by Fall.
An ICU nurse with the Catholic hospitals says that they were ordered to admit virtually all patients as COVIDs, regardless of testing or the real cause of their malady.
ECMC says their hospital is nearly empty and they are laying off staff.
At Kaleida an admissions officer has confirmed that the majority of COVID admissions last week were from nursing homes and not from the general population. The spike was caused by Cuomo’s order that nursing homes had to hold on to their COVID patients and not send them to hospitals. He reversed the order last week. Statistical metrics do not in fact justify the continued lockdown of the general population.
Certainly, a phase in of business activity should have begun weeks ago. People are not stupid. They understand the need for masks, gloves and social distancing. They don’t need liberals standing over them. Many small businesses are choking and need relief. The economy is circling the drain. Opening car washes, gyms, dance studios, hair salons, museums, and even restaurants, etc., all with safeguards would be appropriate.
Remember, it is in the genetic makeup of insecure and cowardly liberals and progressives to desire power over others. They want to micromanage the lives of the people.
Andrew Cuomo is a perfect petri dish specimen of a pathological, insecure, power hungry bully with no remorse for his mistaken policy to hold COVID patients in nursing homes. NY has had 325,000 cases and 26,282 deaths statewide and the horrific death of 5300 nursing home patients. Florida has 2 Million more people than NY. Florida had 40,000 cases and 1670 deaths with only 414 of the deaths in nursing homes. Cuomo should be forced to resign for his incompetence. Except for NYS Assemblyman David DiPietro have you heard one legislator or elected official call for it?
Giving Kathy Hochul, on the other hand, the power to make decisions for reopening Western New York is just dumb. She doesn’t have the business background or medical comprehension to make that decision. She’s assigned to do the dirty work for the Albany swamp liberal establishment hell bent on keeping us in lockdown at least until election day to try to defeat Trump.
Update: Paladino has apparently organized a protest:
Gather in Niagara Square at 1pm. – It’s supposed to be nearly 70 degrees and sunny. – INVITE YOUR FRIENDS!
It went from “flatten the curve” to “find a cure”… IT’S TIME TO OPEN!
This is NOT a Trump Rally, this is NOT a Biden Rally or a Democrats VS Republicans. This is ONE VOICE – ONE MASSIVE PROTEST – All parties, all businesses, all New Yorkers.
This is a protest to support one another, to support your local businesses and no matter what party you’r in… let the leaders of New York know, ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! We have the right to be heard!
Businesses are drowning. Landlords are struggling. Unemployment is skyrocketing.The leaders of NYS have let his go on long enough.
–Why can you go into Walmart and buy a TV, but can’t go into your local electronics store?
–Why can you order photos from the Photo Center, but can’t support your local photographer?
–Why is it okay for hundreds of people in Home Depot, but not okay for 2 people in a barber shop?
THIS IS NOT RIGHT!
This is a PEACEFUL PROTEST but come and make noise! Bring signs, be loud… but please… DO NOT be disrespectful of the city and the property that us taxpayers pay for… and yes, you LEGALLY have the right to peaceful protest!
Be smart, be responsible!
Frank Parlato 
Janine Morrison 
J.J. O'Hara 
Richard Luthmann 
Marie White 
Paul Serran
Please leave a comment: Your opinion is important to us!
The rest of the country is lucky and safe to have Trump doing such a great and perfect job of handling the health crisis. He does know more than the “expert” doctors.
The US is Dramatically Overcounting Coronavirus Deaths
Over 86,500 people have reportedly died in the United States from the Coronavirus, and the fear generated by those deaths is driving the public policy debate. But that number is a dramatic overcount. Our metrics include deaths that have nothing to do with the virus. The problem is even worse as the Centers for Disease Control over counts even some of these cases and the government has created financial incentives for this misreporting. Relying on these flawed numbers is destroying businesses and jobs and costing lives.
“The case definition is very simplistic,” Dr. Ngozi Ezike, director of Illinois Department of Public Health, explains. “It means, at the time of death, it was a COVID positive diagnosis. That means, that if you were in hospice and had already been given a few weeks to live, and then you also were found to have COVID, that would be counted as a COVID death. It means, technically even if you died of clear alternative cause, but you had COVID at the same time, it’s still listed as a COVID death.”
Medical examiners in Michigan use the same definition. In Macomb and Oakland Counties, where most of the deaths occurred, medical examiners classify any deaths as Coronavirus deaths when the postmortem test is positive. Even people who died in suicides and automobile accidents meet that definition.
Still, these broad definitions are not due to a few rogue public health officials. The rules direct them to do this. Unlike other countries, “if someone dies with COVID-19, we are counting that as a COVID-19 death,” as Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus response coordinator, recently noted.
destroying businesses and jobs and costing lives.
“The case definition is very simplistic,” Dr. Ngozi Ezike, director of Illinois Department of Public Health, explains. “It means, at the time of death, it was a COVID positive diagnosis. That means, that if you were in hospice and had already been given a few weeks to live, and then you also were found to have COVID, that would be counted as a COVID death. It means, technically even if you died of clear alternative cause, but you had COVID at the same time, it’s still listed as a COVID death.”
Medical examiners in Michigan use the same definition. In Macomb and Oakland Counties, where most of the deaths occurred, medical examiners classify any deaths as Coronavirus deaths when the postmortem test is positive. Even people who died in suicides and automobile accidents meet that definition.
Classifications go beyond even these broad categories. New York is classifying cases as Coronavirus deaths even when postmortem tests have been negative. Despite negative tests, classifications are based on symptoms, even though the symptoms are often very similar to those of the seasonal flu. The Centers for Disease Control guidance explicitly acknowledges the uncertainty that doctors can face. When Coronavirus cases are “suspected,” they advise doctors that “it is acceptable to report COVID-19 on a death certificate.”
That isn’t just a theoretical issue. On April 21st, when New York City’s death toll rose above 10,000, the New York Times reported that the city included “3,700 additional people who were presumed to have died of the coronavirus but had never tested positive” – a more than 50 percent increase in the number of cases.
https://townhall.com/columnists/johnrlottjr/2020/05/16/the-us-is-dramatically-overcounting-coronavirus-deaths-n2568925
PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS BEEN TAKING HCQ AS A PREVENTATIVE!
DEMOCRATS ARE SCREAMING!
DEMOCRATS WANT PEOPLE TO DIE!
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/05/18/donald-trump-reveals-he-is-taking-hydroxychloroquine-so-far-i-seem-to-be-okay/
What the hell happened to State Senator Pam Helming’s legislation to repeal the powers granted to Cuomo earlier this year? Is she folding simply because days after the announcement Cuomo suddenly decided that Helming’s Finger Lakes region was safe to open?
Cuomo needs to go and needs to be held responsible for his irrational nursing home scheme which was just a scam to prolong the state’s lockdown, which goes against science, virology, common sense and human immune system functionality. Cuomo is the reason more people fled New Pork State last year than any other state in the country. The place is a dump.
Andrew Cuomo is New York State’s Angel of Death who has delivered Death to thousands of nursing home residents?
For what end?
To cut future Medicaid bills?
To inflate the death total to score political points against President Trump?
What do we do to Doctors and Nurses who are Angels of Death?
We prosecute them for homicide!
they have blood on their hands and cuomos {both of these clowns} should resign
“For what end” federal bailout for mismanagement the state for years.
Love Paladino, Roger Stone…Frank Parlato. Giuliani. Here’s to Trump surrounding himself with even more Italians in the next term of his administration.
Cuomo only wins because of NYC votes. Perhaps the NYC sheeple will realize they don’t like being locked up in shoe box size apartments and vote him out.
Cuomo won by like 70% against this guy, not just NYC but most of the state. There is Wikipedia.
Maybe check your own facts, I clearly see More red then blue in the simplistic to understand reference you mentioned.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_New_York_gubernatorial_election
I don’t think that’s the election being discussed, it’s the one with Paladino in 2010.
He ran against Paladillo in 2010
62%, I actually looked at wiki. LOL
If NYC had voted for Paladino, the rest of the state wouldn’t have mattered. LOL
Hopefully Cuomo’s stunt of deliberately infecting nursing home patients with a virus will wake New Yorkers up.
Democratic Governors in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Michigan pulled similar stunts.
DEMOCRATS ARE THE PARTY OF DEATH!
As long as they are white/European and conservative.
Brigid – I am glad that you know that Roger Stone is Italian. French and Italian. And contrary to his reputation, he is one of the nicest guys I know.
Some of the nicest guys I know are Amway scam artists.
If Stone is such a nice guy, why does he have such a dirty trickster reputation?
He plays to win.
So do Amway scam artists.
Cuomo is Italian. LOL