1. By way of answering Paladino’s pandering on the “open border” welfare issue, he’s right – we didn’t vote for that. New York implemented residency requirements that were struck down as unconstitutional in 1971. While the 1996 TANF welfare reform law had expressly permitted states to impose welfare residency requirements, and while New York did go ahead and implement them, the Supreme Court ruled in 1999 that the residency limitations on TANF benefits was unconstitutional.
“Citizens of the United States, whether rich or poor, have the right to choose to be citizens ‘of the state wherein they reside,’” Stevens wrote, quoting the 14th Amendment. “The states, however, do not have any right to select their citizens.”
So, Paladino can promise to implement unconstitutional residency requirements on welfare, but to what end?
2. Paladino comes out against gay marriage because that’s just not how a marriage is traditionally defined. Hasn’t he lost every scintilla of moral authority to dictate to anyone what their marriage should look like, and to whom they should be married?
3. I’m loving the Pataki poster in the background. If ever there was someone who didn’t deserve a cult of personality, it’s Governor Pataxme.
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