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The campaign for governor in the state of New York turned progressively ugly over the weekend. Republican candidate Carl Paladino, visiting rabbis in Brooklyn, made a series of anti-gay slurs, claiming that children are 'brainwashed' into a homosexuality. As he attempts to clarify and backtrack, his campaign doesn't seem to worried because they have proof that challenger and Democrat nominee Andrew Cuomo is anti-Semitic as well. Paladino's big bombshell is that Cuomo is friends with Russell Simmons and once took a trip to Palestine.
In a binder of anti-Cuomo literature that was obtained by the New York Post, Paladino's campaign highlights Simmons' apparent ties to Nation of Islam-leader Louis Farrakhan as proof of prejudice towards Jewish people. This claim goes against Simmons' entire reputation. He's actually been an activist against anti-Semitism, a renowned Buddhist and peacenik for nearly his entire career.
'Cuomo names Russell Simmons, a supporter of anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan, a 'senior black advisor' to his campaign,' the document says. It goes on to craft an attack that because the super-successful hip-hop entrepreneur hosted Farrakhan and his sons at his home in lower Manhattan last year, he must somehow be prejudiced."
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