http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailypolitics/2010/03/paladino-compares-health-care.htmlBuffalo millionaire and GOP gubernatorial hopeful Carl Paladino today compared the new federal health care reform bill to the 2001 terrorist attacks, DN Capitol Bureau Chief Ken Lovett reports.
“The day that bill was passed will be remembered just as 9-11 was remembered in history,” Paladino told Curtis Sliwa during an early morning interview on AM-970. “It was an attempt by these people in Washington to defy the Constitution."Paladino said he plans to announce on April 5 that he is running for governor. He has pledged to spend up to $10 million of his own money on the GOP primary and also says he'll petition his way onto the ballot as a Tea Party candidate.
Donna Marsh O’Connor, a Syracuse mother who lost her 29-year-old daughter who was four months pregnant in the 9-11 attacks, told Lovett that she’d never vote for Paladino for making this comparison.
“It is despicable if in someone’s mind those events are analogous,” O’Connor said. “That is not a person who should be a leader of our country, of a state, of a city, of any community.”
“Once again 9-11 is being exploited for political gain. Our family members are tools, not human beings who lost their lives and left behind wounds that will never heal.”
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