Carl Paladino says he has survived many cycles, ups and downs, but still goes to work every day, although he has turned over the business operations of Ellicott Development and all the properties to his son William.
“Billy handles it all,” says Carl Paladino, who seems much more relaxed these days, even though you know he’s still paying attention to everything that he’s built over his long career. That’s just him.
Carl Paladino’s feisty, in-your-face political style that won him a Republican primary for governor back in 2010, pledging to “take a baseball bat to Albany” to knock out the state’s entrenched political class, is still going strong at 78. His tough brand of political economic populism to reinvent government electrified his Tea Party followers and carried him to victory over establishment Republican choice Rick Lazio in the primary, but he lost to Andrew Cuomo in the race for governor…