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Cuomo Caught Lying About Voting For Bloomberg?

Poll Shocker: Paladino Closes Within 6 Points Of Democratic Foe

September 22, 2010 11:45 PM
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Reporting Marcia Kramer

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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — There has been a dramatic development in the race for New York governor.

A new poll has Republican Carl Paladino within striking distance of Democrat Andrew Cuomo as voters say they want to elect someone who will stop the circus in Albany.

Wednesday was supposed to be Cuomo’s day as he picked up the endorsement of New York City’s notoriously independent mayor, Michael Bloomberg, in the race for governor.

But a new poll changed that because it turned Cuomo’s once comfortable front-runner status on its head.

“I’m in politics. I’m in government, so nothing surprises me,” Cuomo told CBS 2′s Marcia Kramer.

But it was a surprise. Only one week after his upset victory over Rick Lazio in the Republican primary, Paladino is now breathing down Cuomo’s neck.

Only six points separate Cuomo and Paladino in the Quinnipiac University poll. Cuomo now leads 49-43, with a plus or minus error of 3.6.

The poll was certainly a stunner for Team Paladino. At the last minute he bailed out of a press conference to take calls from new donors.

“Suddenly his phone lit up with offers of financial resources. We cancelled his schedule and he’s in Buffalo returning telephone calls and having meetings so that we are able to take advantage of this rainstorm,” Paladino spokesman Michael Caputo said.

Meanwhile, Mayor Bloomberg said he is backing Cuomo because he can best deal with voter anger over Albany’s complete dysfunction.

“The public is mad, frustrated, but what the public wants is progress,” Bloomberg said.

Why does Cuomo think he’s better able to fix Albany than Paladino.

“My argument then is, Marcia, look at what I have done as attorney general,” Cuomo said. “I’ve been not only articulating the dissatisfaction with Albany, I’ve been acting on it. I’ve been very aggressive in bringing public integrity cases and public corruption cases and bringing cases against sitting legislators.”

But for all his actions as the state’s chief law enforcement officer, Cuomo did have a little problem with telling the truth about his election box support for Mayor Bloomberg.

“Have I voted for the mayor? Yes,” Cuomo said.

Actually, he didn’t. The Cuomo campaign had to issue a clarification, saying he was only registered to vote in New York City in 2005 when he endorsed Democrat Fernando Ferrer.

Political experts say Cuomo can’t afford to make a mistake like that in a close contest.

“When the races tighten up in this way you can’t afford many more ‘whoops’ moments. He’s got to be a lot more careful going forward,” political consultant Hank Sheinkopf said.

The Paladino team used the faux pas to taunt Cuomo about not yet agreeing to debates.

Paladino spokesman Caputo said “Perhaps that’s why Andrew is afraid to debate. He misspeaks so much he fears facing the voters.”

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  • JudgeMental

    Ask his uncle Fred and aunt Fannie

  • Len

    The fact that New Yorkers could even consider Paladino as a credible candidate tells me that New Yorkers need to seriously examine themselves.

    • William

      Len, what a thoughtful comment backed up by hard facts. Typical liberal – say something like it is a fact that you have not way of intellectually supporting.
      Only two types of liberals, the duped and the dupers.

    • Anne Olivier

      you are riight about that len…and the stupid idiots that link Cuomo to the Mafi a are bigots. Paladino is nuts.

    • hayrake

      The fact that New Yorkers could even consider rangel as a credible candidate tells me that New Yorkers need to seriously examine themselves.

  • anatolepushkin

    Between Macho Paladino and Andy Boy Cuomo, Princess Carolikne Kennedy in drag, the choice of the New Yorkers is obvious: Paladino. If male chauvinist piglets want to burn Christine O’Donnel for being a witch, it’s unfair if they don’t do the same to the overstayikng mayor for being an imp.

  • boulder3m

    What a disappointment Bloomberg had turned out to be. Trying to straddle the fence gets barbed wire in some hurtful spots.

  • jnsesq

    Wait! A Liberal Democrat (Oops! Redundant) LYING?!? Go figure. Only news here is that it is actually reported.

    Folks, do try to remember it was Cuomo the Lesser, as Clinton’s HUD secretary, who effectively engineered the mortgage meltdown with his brilliant social engineering experiment of “Everybody-buy-a-house-and-don’t-worry-about-the-payments.” If you’re upside down in your mortgage or have already lost your home, you might want to return the favor this November.

  • http://onfollowingchrist.wordpress.com Paul B.

    Another lying politican? We can do better than this. Cuome think he’s entitled to the position, and has jockeyed his Democrat machine career accordingly. We need more businessmen to take the reins of government and break the stranglehold lawyers and career pols have place on the people of this state. Here Cuomo is lying to your face. How can you possibly put up with that? Bloomberg’s endorsement should have us running – in the opposite direction.

    And I hope Connecticut gives that other liar, Blumenthal, the boot as well. This is the year to send a clear message and get government cleaned up.

    BTW – great job, CBS. Auto-refresh the page often, wiping out comments as they are being composed. Brilliant.

  • hflynn

    Cuomo told a lie the moment he was asked a question. He is a Democrat after all.
    This state cannot afford another crooked Dem in office, it is time to wipe the slate clean.

  • rEFFAREEE123

    CAUSE THAT WOULD BLOW THE LID OFF HIS LIBTUREDEDNESS

  • g.e.Taylor

    Hey !

    What happened to Nathan’s comments?
    I wanted to give this to him.

    http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=washingtonstory&sid=a0OvxJSr7EbU

    • andy warhol

      New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo’s campaign fund took tens of thousands of dollars from law firms representing clients his office investigated or accused of wrongdoing, state records show.

      Boies Schiller & Flexner LLP, a New York law firm led by David Boies, gave Cuomo $35,000 this year, records show.

      boies is a real scary guy and the lawyers are real low lifes. i saw one lawyer give blank postal receipts to the judge saying a letter was sent. cuomo.s office did not care..

  • Nick

    HEY! Why did you censored nathan’s posts? I did not request it. It is EXTREMELY Entertaining. And he has a right to say what he wants to say.

    Besides, it shows what kind of developmentally challenged individual supports Cuomo. Please put back his posts – I have a $30 bet here as to what lunacy it’ll spout next.

    • Nick

      come to think of it. For his lunacies to be removed so quickly and after work hours…. “nathan” works for you, doesn’t he? No wonder your news reporting is whacked.

  • Mary

    “The Cuomo campaign had to issue a clarification, saying he was only registered to vote in New York City in 2005 when he endorsed Democrat Fernando Ferrer.”

    Ostensibly, one cannot VOTE if one is not REGISTERED to vote in either 2005 or 2009.. Cuomo obviously lied. Yes. Lied. He was not able to vote for Cuomo.

    • Mary

      Sorry, Cuomo was not able to vote for BLOOMBERG.

    • Len

      At least he has the decency to clarify his remarks. The other guy who holds himself up as the savior of New York, neither apologizes or clarifies.

    • Milo

      Mary, He’s a politician. They don’t lie, they misspeak. He’s a liberal and a Dem so he can count on the votes from the same sheep who voted for Obamanation that we have in D.C.

    • Vince

      Hey Len, decency?? He got CAUGHT. And he did not “clarify” anything. He had no choice but to admit he was not even registered or it would have blown up in his face. He LIED! What clarified??

  • g.e.Taylor

    Josh P;

    You should have given Cuomo that excuse before his campaign admitted to the instant fraud.

    [see the above story: “. . . The Cuomo campaign had to issue a clarification, saying he was only registered to vote in New York City in 2005 when he endorsed Democrat Fernando Ferrer. . . .”

  • barney

    DUH… He endorsed the liberal, like all liberals do!

    • Spock

      Barney – True but Bloomberg is a Liberal too!! (he changed from Democrat to Republican to run on Guiliannis coat tails)

  • peter

    What Coumo did at HUD should be on the record. He had a very large hand in the collapse of the housing market. The free ride will end . he can’t avoid the truth.

  • jack869

    Remember, he’s an elite Northeast Democrat. They don’t lie. They “mis-speak”
    Just like the AG in CT “mis-spoke” over and over about his war record.

    Maybe he just needs a lesson from Bill Clinton

  • Abe Frohman

    Someone should ask Cuomo about his ties to the mob, or the kickbacks he took as the head of HUD in the 1990s.

    Why won’t the NY media question this man? Do you want another Spitzer or Patterson who you discover is a crook once he is in office?

  • HarlotO’Hara

    LOL @ his clarification!!!

  • Chris

    Of course the liberal bias news media refuse to report on this:

    Andrew Cuomo and Fannie and Freddie
    How the youngest Housing and Urban Development secretary in history gave birth to the mortgage crisis, By Wayne Barrett, published: August 05, 2008
    http://www.villagevoice.com/2008-08-05/news/how-andrew-cuomo-gave-birth-to-the-crisis-at-fannie-mae-and-freddie-mac/

    There are as many starting points for the mortgage meltdown as there are fears about how far it has yet to go, but one decisive point of departure is the final years of the Clinton administration, when a kid from Queens without any real banking or real-estate experience was the only man in Washington with the power to regulate the giants of home finance, the Federal National Mortgage Association (FNMA) and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (FHLMC), better known as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

    • brassia

      Thank you for putting it so decisevely right!!!
      And to see Clinton (at this stage finally with his pants up) all over the media offering his take on things????
      Can he just fade into the sunset…like forever!

  • Doug

    So now we call lies, “mistakes”

    • Will Kane

      Isn’t that what the dems have done from Obama on down. I think it is a toss up on whether calling a lie a mistake is the number one item or if it is blaming someone else for their messes?

    • Progressive Ed

      No. He “misspoke”.

    • charlie

      No. Criminals lie. Poliicians simply “misspeak”

      • Ziggy

        Perhaps he just “misremembered”?

    • joe

      Only when a democRAT does it. When a republican does it then it IS a lie.

    • Joe M

      I guess it’s better than saying he “misspoke”, which seems to be the word of the year for Democrats looking to gte out of a jam caused by what they said.

    • voltair

      …..this has been the language of the left for many decades…..and still is.

  • Ben

    The NY Times got rid of Patterson because it wanted Cuomo elected. The brainwashed democrats and liberals always do what the Times tells them. The vicious liberals will get to work attacking, smearing, ridiculing, mocking, demeaning Paladino.

  • Nick

    nathan appears to be stalking Dan Te. So what did he write here that’s racist? Dan te really got you foaming at the mouth, didn’t he, nathan?

  • http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2010/09/22/bloomberg-endorses-cuomo-for-governor/ Bloomberg Endorses Cuomo For Governor « CBS New York- News, Sports, Weather, Traffic and the Best of NY

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  • http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2010/09/22/report-bloomberg-to-endorse-cuomo-for-governor/ Report: Bloomberg To Endorse Cuomo « CBS New York- News, Sports, Weather, Traffic and the Best of NY

    [...] RELATED STORY: Poll Shows Paladino Closing In On Cuomo [...]

  • Proud Agnostic

    Perhaps Andy could have his daddy debate for him.HYMPH!HYMPH!HYMPH!

    • Scott

      Good luck with that; I seem to recall his daddy being a bit shy about debating back in the day.

  • Maria P

    I guess Cuomo’s “landslife” victory was a little premature.

    • glen whitten

      We want people in DC and Allbany to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.. Cuomo would never be able to do that and therefore should not be elected.

      • Pompey

        A liberal who lies……what a surprise…..are you sure?

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