CARL PALADINOThe Republican candidate for New York governor, already trailing Democrat Andrew Cuomo, spent Monday defending his claims that children should not attend gay pride parades because they involve “extreme-type people” wearing “bikini-type outfits grinding at each other and doing these gyrations.” Though denounced by gay-rights groups, Paladino insists he has “absolutely no problem” with homosexuals, some of whom, he said, work for him.
JOE MANCHIN
The Democratic governor of West Virginia, who is trailing Republican challenger John Raese in the Mountain State’s Senate race, is still trying to overcome GOP claims that he would be a “rubber stamp” for President Obama. In a new ad, a gun-toting Manchin says he’d “take on Washington and this administration,” dismantle the “bad parts of Obamacare” and take “dead aim” at cap-and-trade environmental legislation. To prove it, Manchin shoots a copy of the bill.
RICH IOTT
The Tea Party-backed Republican congressional nominee who is trying to unseat Rep. Marcy Kaptur, D-Ohio, has a hobby that’s difficult to explain to voters. Iott dresses as a Nazi to take part in military re-enactments. Iott said critics’ claims that his hobby is anti-Jewish are “blatant distortions and attacks.” He said the re-enactments are something he and his son like to do together and that he’s “grateful for the father-son bonding” the Nazi re-enactments provide.
