… and plants a smooch on Kat ForTra at June’s march. (
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ALBANY — Maybe it’s a good thing Carl Paladino skipped the Gay Pride Parade — his aide went, and got a real earful!
Roger Stone, a key adviser to the Republican gubernatorial candidate — who called the parade “disgusting” — not only went to the march, but joined in the festivities, doffing his shirt and getting his ear licked by a bosomy, nearly naked babe.
A photo from the event shows a blasé-looking Stone taking his licking from the all-but-topless, body-painted beauty in stride.
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Another shot shows Stone returning the favor by closing in to kiss one of the strategically placed rainbow-colored stars on the sparkle-covered mammaries of his fellow marcher, who was identified by the Broward-Palm Beach New Times as “fitness model” Kat ForTra.
The photos — which were posted on a Florida paper’s blog right after the June event — sparked renewed interest yesterday in the wake of Paladino’s outrage-inducing complaints about all the “grinding,” Speedo-clad men at such events.
Stone showed no such hang-ups when he marched shirtless in the parade on behalf of his other advisee in the governor’s race — self-described “Manhattan Madam” Kristin Davis, whose protest platform includes legalization of gay marriage, gambling, prostitution and marijuana.
Stone described his parade mate as “one of Kristin’s volunteers” and shrugged off questions about how his participation might reflect on Paladino’s “family values” campaign.
“Yeah, I marched with Kristin Davis in the Gay Pride Parade. Proud of it,” he told Politico. “I’m a libertarian Republican.”
When not marching in parades, Kat promotes physical fitness through an “orgasmic lifestyle,” according to her blog and a Web site hawking her workout videos.
She did not respond to an e-mail yesterday, and her Web site was abruptly taken down.
Stone — long one of the GOP’s most notorious dirty tricksters — was bounced from Republican Bob Dole’s presidential campaign in 1996 after The National Enquirer revealed that he and his wife placed an ad in a swingers’ magazine, Local Swing Fever.
Stone, a gay-marriage advocate, has minced no words about his displeasure with the anti-gay remarks Paladino made in Brooklyn Sunday to a group of ultra-Orthodox rabbis.
“It doesn’t even seem to be consistent with [Paladino’s] ‘live and let live’ philosophy,” Stone told the news Web site The Daily Beast.
“When I asked what happened, the answer was no answer: ‘Yeah, it was a f- -k-up.’ ”
The Hasidic Brooklyn rabbi who hosted Paladino as he made the remarks withdrew his support for him in the wake of the candidate’s apology to gays on Tuesday.
Rabbi Yehuda Levin said Paladino was “receiving pressure” from his family — which includes a gay nephew — to soften his stance.
He had little to say about Stone marching in the Gay Pride Parade.
“Frankly, I think Mr. Stone is missing a few pebbles,” Levin said.
Paladino had questioned Democratic rival Andrew Cuomo’s parenting skills for bringing his daughters to the annual gay-pride extravaganza.
Paladino’s campaign manager, Michael Caputo, said the candidate saw nothing objectionable in Stone’s parade appearance.
“Roger Stone did not take young children to the parade, and he is welcome to live his life as he pleases,” Caputo said, adding glibly: “And, by the way, if this is the worst you have on Roger Stone, you aren’t trying very hard.”
Meanwhile, the Web site that first revealed Paladino had forwarded several racially charged and sexually suggestive e-mails disclosed more X-rated pictures and movies supposedly sent out last year by the Buffalo builder.
The e-mails, posted by wnymedia.net, feature women in various sexual situations, including one showing a woman performing oral sex on another.
At least two e-mails bear the same commentary attributed to Paladino: “Awesome.”
“This is just an attempt to breathe life once again into their dying, unprofitable Web site by maligning a Buffalo community leader,” Caputo said. “None of this is new; none of it is relevant.”
Additional reporting by Jennifer Fermino