Carl Paladino, who has thrown buckets of unsubstantiated mud at Andrew Cuomo, may be preparing for a further escalation with documents alleging that Cuomo is anti-Semitic, The Post has learned.
The Paladino campaign has boasted of having a massive amount of negative research on Cuomo.
Nearly 500 pages of the anti-Cuomo documents were obtained by The Post from a source with ties to Paladino’s gubernatorial campaign adviser, Roger Stone, a self-styled GOP dirty-trickster whose protégé Michael Caputo is Paladino’s campaign manager.
Caputo bragged to an Albany newspaper in July that, “We have six binders on Cuomo. We’re going to win the campaign on it.”
The massive collection obtained by The Post dates to 2002 and looks like it might have been prepared for former Gov. George Pataki’s re-election campaign, which was preparing for a possible challenge from Cuomo, the former federal Housing secretary who unsuccessfully sought to become the Democratic nominee for governor eight years ago.
The collection of anti-Cuomo material is marked as coming from Drake Ventures, a Florida-based public-relations firm owned by Stone.
“Memorandum. Date: June 21, 2001. Re: Andrew Cuomo an anti-Semite?” one page of the material begins.
“While Americans are sleeping in the streets and rundown HUD housing, their landlord Andrew Cuomo is in bed with terrorists?” it continues.
“First: Instead of focusing on the poor and homeless here in the United States, HUD Secretary Cuomo traveled to the Middle East to befriend terrorist Yasser Arafat and Palestine.
“Now: Cuomo names Russell Simmons, a supporter of anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan, a ‘senior black advisor’ to his campaign,” the document continues.
Cuomo, as HUD secretary, met with Arafat and Palestinian leaders in 2000 to discuss housing and refugee issues during an official visit to the Mideast.
Renowned hip-hop entrepreneur and Phat Farm fashion creator Simmons has been a longtime Cuomo supporter and financial backer, as well as an aggressive opponent of anti-Semitism and racism. He hosted the Nation of Islam leader and his sons at his lower Manhattan home last year when they were in New York to greet Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy.
Asked if the Paladino campaign possessed the documents obtained by The Post and planned to use them in the campaign, Caputo responded, “No comment.”
Cuomo campaign spokesman Josh Vlasto angrily claimed the documents prove “Paladino had a premeditated plan to disseminate false and vicious rumors.”
“His hypocrisy knows no bounds as he falsely tries to smear someone as anti-Semitic when he himself refers to a Jewish elected official as a Hitler and an antichrist,” continued Vlasto.
“That’s why Paladino’s campaign is being called one of the dirtiest in the country.”
Paladino came in for considerable criticism last month for backing up a political ally’s comparison of Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, an Orthodox Jew, to Hitler and the “Antichrist.”
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Heimishe Yiden!! wake up enough of these Liberal Anti Semitim. This Cuomo is a nothing!!! We need Jobs. There is no more money for Handouts.If there is no money coming in there will be no money going out.
What type of unsubstantiated mud? Cuomo forced banks to give mortgages to people who couldn’t afford as HUD secretary, he brought his daughters to the Menuvalim Parade, he is pro-abortion, and against the death penalty. This is called unsubstantiated mud?
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Paladino’s position on abortion is just as contrary to ours as are Cuomo’s — maybe more so, because Paladino would ban halachically mandated abortions. Two orthodox rabbis have warned me not to serve on a jury in a capital case in the US because the standards are so far short of what is required for Noachide courts.