An Albany area lawmaker — decked out in a cowboy hat and blue jeans — got caught on video pulling an opponent’s campaign signs from the side of the road and tossing them.
Assemblyman Tim Gordon, an independent, is seen removing signs touting GOPer Steve McLaughlin.
The video was posted by McLaughlin’s campaign on YouTube.
Gordon countered that McLaughlin signs are regularly put on both his property and a neighbor’s, and those were the ones he tossed.
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Mayor Bloomberg routinely dismisses speculation that he’ll run for president in 2012, but he apparently does confide his dreams of White House glory in at least one person — at least according to Ralph Nader.
“My conversations with him and his conversations with other people lead me to believe it’s 50-50 he’s going to run in 2012, and it will probably be on an independent ticket,” Nader said in an interview on upstate cable news outlet YNN.
A Bloomberg spokesman said the mayor has made it “quite clear” he’s not running for president.
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Carl Paladino says the press is going to the dogs — specifically his dog.
Paladino campaign manager Michael Caputo issued a scathing letter to reporters yesterday blasting a member of the press for trying to learn if the GOP gubernatorial hopeful’s best friend had a proper license.
“I want to alert the media right now that Duke is properly registered as a canine resident of Buffalo,” Caputo wrote in the rambling letter.
He signed off, “Any reporter who is compelled to put Duke under the spotlight, I give you an understated word of advice: beware of dog.”