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NY Gov Wannabe Compares Health Care Reform To 9/11
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Jen Chung
Published Mar 23, 2010
Modified Mar 23, 2010
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Carl Paladino, a millionaire businessman from Buffalo who is interested in running for Governor, has been railing against health care reform—you know, Obamacare—but today he hit the Rudy Giuliani moment by invoking 9/11 when being interviewed by Curtis Sliwa today. Paladino said, "I fear the results of Obamacare will be so horrific that it will kill more Americans through deteriorating health care than were lost on 9-11. Nothing can lessen the terrible events of that day, but in terms of raw numbers more will suffer and die through Obamacare."
You can listen here. He also said, "The day that bill was passed will be remembered just as 9/11 was remembered in history"—hello, Glenn Beck?—"It was an attempt by these people in Washington to defy the Constitution." The Daily News, which says Paladino has "ties to the tea party movement," spoke to Donna Marsh O'Connor, whose pregnant, 29-year-old daughter was killed at the World Trade Center during the attacks. O'Connor was disguested, "It is despicable if in someone's mind those events are analogous. That is not a person who should be a leader of our country, of a state, of a city, of any community."
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Jen Chung is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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