Paladino Hates Overt Jiggling, But Loves Gay Rent

Carl Paladino has a serious problem with grown men jiggling and grinding against each other in bikini-type outfits. But only in public, see? Because he has no problem with them doing it inside the confines of a club. Because his son once ran such a club in Buffalo, and Carl had no problem collecting the rent from it. So there wouldn't be any controversy if gay people could just follow Carl's parameters on where and when to jiggle.

Paladino's son William co-owned gay nightclub "Cobalt," which was once dubbed the "gay club of the moment," in downtown Buffalo from May 2004 to July 2006. The club was run under the corporate name 2975 Group LLC, while the building it was housed in was owned by one of Paladino's many companies, the Huron Group LLC. According to a Buffalo News March 2005 review, "The queens, the techno, the cocktails, the kind of gyration normally confined to Manhattan was in full flaming force at Cobalt." See: those hip-swaggering gyrations couldn't stop him from collecting his completely hypocritical payday. (It's worth noting that after the bar switched themes to become a straight club, a man was stabbed in the back, and the club subsequently lost its liquor license. Straights ruin everything.)

In addition, Paladino rented space in one of his other Buffalo buildings to gay bar "Buddies II" in 2006. Paladino also bought space in the local gay monthly newspaper to advertise for apartments to rent. But that's because the money wasn't jiggling in a provocative manner.

But let's get one thing abundantly clear: Carl has (practically) no problem with lesbians. Indeed, he has allegedly been spotted in lesbian bars in Buffalo. You can see comedian Kristen Becker spin a charming yarn about running into Carl at such an establishment below (language NSFW).

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By Ben Yakas in News on October 13, 2010 11:35 AM

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pinball29

Renting to two gay bars, and a relative running one?? Its only a matter of time before the mob connections come out. Yeah, that still exists....

jrrrrz

bet he has some buddies in Utica..

John L

I think we've already established that Carl Paladino is a hypocrite but I don't see where this adds to that. However the comic's story, if true, I find very disturbing. Why is he drunk at a lesbian bar, or any bar for that matter, and calling workers "dykes"? Very, very poor judgement and manners for a man who wants to run this state.

SP's Ghost

Right wingers are into that sort of thing, when they aren't saying hateful things and bashing it that is.

Dogsbody

While I appreciate that there has to be at least one Paladino-outrage story per day, this seems to be a complete non-story. There is nothing hypocritical about Paladino's views in this particular instance.

He thinks that "gyrating" in public (especially in front of children) is "disgusting", whereas thinking similar behaviour in private is OK. How is this hypocritical? Isn't the distinction between public behaviour and private behaviour pretty common to nearly everyone?

e.g. I think farting, smoking, swearing, having sex, walking around in your grubby old underwear etc are fine within a private property. I don't think it's appropriate to do any of those things in public though (especially in front of children). Is that hypocritical?

ANGRYGOD11

I hated to defend this idiot, but Carl Paladino is being consistent: He doesn't want gays to publicly flaunt themselves nor have that lifestyle proposed in the public schools (whatever that means). Aside from gay marriage, he doesn't care about private lives and gay clubs are private businesses.

That said, he is still an idiot for saying these things while gay men are in the hospital after a very publicized gang attack.

jaycjay

" See: those hip-swaggering gyrations couldn't stop him from collecting his completely hypocritical payday."

Like yesterday's story, this changes nothing about Paladino being a clown unfit for office but is nothing but a baseless attempt to create something out of nothing.

So, he had an opportunity to discriminate against members of a protected class, but didn't do so. You're telling us that's a bad thing about him?

Did he also not beat his wife?