Potential New York gubernatorial Tea Bagger candidate compares health care reform to 9-11, mother of 9-11 victim says he's despicable

On Tuesday potential Tea-Bagger gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino compared the new federal health care reform lawl to the 2001 terrorist attacks on a local radio program according to the New York Daily News.

 Paladino told radio host Curtis Sliwa in an interview on New York’s AM-970 that the day the health care reform bill was passed will be remembered just as 9-11 was remembered in history. He said, “It was an attempt by these people in Washington to defy the Constitution", in a strikingly naive reference to the duly elected Democratic congressional majority lawfully passing the legislation as stipulated in the US constitution.

Paladino has pledged to spend up to $10 million of his own money on the GOP primary and also says he'll petition his way onto the ballot as a Tea Bagger candidate.

Donna O’Connor, a Syracuse mother who lost her 29-year-old daughter who was four months pregnant in the 9-11 attacks, told the Daily News that she’d never vote for Paladino for making this comparison.

“It is despicable if in someone’s mind those events are analogous,” Ms. O’Connor said. “That is not a person who should be a leader of our country, of a state, of a city, of any community. Once again 9-11 is being exploited for political gain. Our family members are tools, not human beings who lost their lives and left behind wounds that will never heal.”

Paladino has called on New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo to join other states in suing to block the health care law.