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Hofstra University will host the first gubernatorial debate between GOP candidate Carl Paladino, Democratic opponent Andrew Cuomo and five third-party candidates on Monday, Oct. 18. All seven candidates said they plan to attend, including Anti-Prohibition Party candidate Kristin Davis, Freedom Party candidate Charles Barron, Green Party candidate Howie Hawkins, Libertarian Party candidate Warren Redlich and Jimmy McMillan of the Rent is too Damn High Party. The debate comes after Paladino accused Cuomo of avoiding a debate. It also comes two years after the university hosted the third and final Presidential debate in 2008. “This election is a critical one for...

link for the joke debate One guy is from the "Rent is 2damned high party" http://www.news12.com/articleDetail.jsp?articleId=264107&position=1&news_type=news

We told you that tonight's New York gubernatorial debate—with seven participants!—would be crazy, but we could have never anticipated this level of it: watch as Jimmy McMillan, of the "Rent Is Too Damn High" party, uh... introduces himself. Most amusing video at link http://tv.gawker.com/5667182/crazy-rent-is-too-damn-high-candidate-steals-the-show

John Podhoretz watched tonight’s debate live and tweeted, “Jimmie McMillen about to go viral. Trust me.” And so he is, my friends, so he is.To give you a sense of how seriously New Yorkers take politics these days, here’s a quote from one of the other candidates on the dais this evening: Former madam Kristin Davis, the Anti-Prohibition Party candidate, called career politicians the “biggest whores” and declared she might be the only one on the stage “with the right experience to deal with them.” In discussing the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, she noted that “the key difference between the MTA...

Jimmy McMillan, a man running for Governor of New York for the ‘Rent Is Too Damn High’ Party, stole the show at the NY Gubernatorial debate. His campaign is focused around, well, rent in New York City. McMillan is also a ‘karate expert’.

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A new Siena poll has Cuomo leading Paladino by 37 percent. Is the race over? Yes 36.36 % No 63.64 %

Your rent may be too damn high, but Jimmy McMillan's sure isn't. The Vietnam vet stole the spotlight at the gubernatorial sideshow debate earlier this week, bellowing his campaign platform and party banner, "The rent is too damn high." But McMillan's indignant pontification doesn't appear to stem from personal experience. As it turns out, he doesn't pay rent at all -- and hasn't done so since the 1980s, according to a published report. McMillan missed payments on his $800-a-month one-bedroom apartment in Flatbush and his landlord allowed him to live rent free in exchange for maintenance work, reports The New...

If you're a New Yorker, you may laugh at him, but guess what? That's more than NewsFeed pays (nyah-nyah!) The New York Post today has a scoop on New York's newest political hero, Jimmy McMillan, a black-gloved, exquisitely mustached Vietnam veteran running for Governor of New York under the banner of the Rent Is Too Damn High Party. But as quickly as fortunes rise in this state, so too do they fall: The Post is reporting breathlessly that McMillan only pays $800 a month for a one-bedroom apartment in Brooklyn. Or, as they put it, "his rent isn't that damn...

In New York state, contrary to gubernatorial candidate Jimmy McMillan, the rent is not too damn high. It's actually too damn low in most places -- and that fact reflects the state's true problems. McMillan created a sensation at this week's gubernatorial debate with his handlebar mustache and his incessant repetition of his slogan about rents being too high. Although McMillan is evasive about his own rent (The Post reported yesterday that he pays $800 a month for a Brooklyn one-bedroom), news accounts and typical "voter in the street" interviews suggest many people approve of McMillan's gripes that rents are...

Hint: It isn't Andrew Cuomo... by Democrat and Chronicle Carl Paladino was always unbowed, videos reveal David Andreatta – Staff writer Local News – October 21, 2010 - 5:00amDANDREAT@DemocratandChronicle.comWhat’s a brash businessman with a beef with big government and a penchant for publicity to do when a news outlet offers to videotape his musings on anything and everything and broadcast them unedited over the Internet?Take it and sound off, of course.That is just what Carl Paladino did in the years leading up to his improbable gubernatorial run when Artvoice, a popular Buffalo weekly newspaper, asked him again and again to...

“The leader of the ‘Rent Is Too Damn High’ Party might have a scandal already,” declared Fox News’ Greta Van Susteren last night. “Guess what he pays for rent. Stay tuned.” It turns out that Jimmy McMillan has lived for at least the past decade rent free. “‘We’re like family,’ Mr. McMillan said of his landlords. ‘They don’t want me to pay any money at all. I am basically living rent free,’” he told the New York Times. Mr. McMillan said that he moved into his apartment, a one-bedroom on Nostrand Avenue in Flatbush, Brooklyn, in the early 1980s, but...

There was only one reason to watch Monday night’s New York Gubernatorial debate–and that reason was Jimmy McMillan, candidate from ”The Rent Is Too Damn High” Party. I talked to a Rent is Too Damn High supporter yesterday. She told me that they had other names in the running for their movement before they finally agreed on The Rent is Too Damn High Party.* The following is a list of six other names that they almost picked, before finally settling on The Rent is Too Damn High. I think Mr. McMillan made a wise choice. 1)You Take The Good You...