Carl Paladino, famously known as ‘Crazy Carl’, is ‘mad as hell’ at Governor Andrew Cuomo but will not seek to challenge him in another gubernatorial bid, next fall. Mr. Paladino was in Albany yesterday to protest the SAFE Act, which put new regulations on firearms in the wake of the Sandy Hook shooting, and which he believes will be overturned in federal court, Jill Colvin reports.

Appearing Tuesday on YNN’s Capital Tonight, Mr. Paladino slammed the governor as “self-absorbed” and “egotistical” and proclaimed that his gun legislation will bring down Cuomo in his reelection bid.

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“We have a higher law in this land. People who are God-like, like Cuomo—this deity thing—they don’t believe in rules, they don’t believe in the Constitution. Well we believe in the Constitution,” Mr. Paladino told Liz Benjamin. He further thanked Mr. Cuomo “for giving us this opportunity to unify and have a common issue that will eventually result in his demise from politics.”

“What is wrong with this man?” Mr. Paladino demanded. “The people are entitled to better than that … They’re entitled to have an opportunity to have it vetted and to comment on it. And that’s the nonsense. That’s the infringement—if you want to call it –the terrible infringement upon the basic rights of the people of this country. He’s so self-absorbed, he’s so egotistical that we went out there and made this huge mistake that’s going to be the end of his career.”
Notwithstanding his critique of the Governor, Mr. Paladino was as critical of the state’s Republican Party.

“We have so man RINOs [Republicans in name only] around in this party that we can’t really identify the good Republicans from the bad Republicans,” he said, vowing to fund primary challenges against incumbent Republicans he feels aren’t doing their jobs. “We have no opposition. And that’s why we have rampant corruption in our government.”

(Jacob Kornbluh – YWN)