Carl Paladino says he is confident he will be on the GOP Primary ballot, after gathering roughly 28 thousand signatures for his petition, which is roughly 13k more than the required 15 thousand. Though, usually campaigns shoot for 3 times the required number to discourage opponents from challenging their signatures.

For example, relatively unknown Democratic US Senate candidate Gail Goode submitted 45 thousand signatures yesterday in her bid to challenge Kirsten Gillibrand. Though, Paladino’s campaign told the Buffalo News their signatures have been thoroughly reviewed.

Paladino says he has collected at least 300 signatures from 21 Congressional districts – which is well above the 100 signatures required for 15 Congressional Districts.

During a phone interview with YNN’s Kevin Jolly, Paladino also suggested that Rick Lazio is running a spoiler campaign, at this point.

“I think Lazio is a spoiler. Lazio ought to get the hell out of this race, cause he is going nowhere. And I warned him about this before at the convention.”

Paladino went on to say, “I said, you are going to get pummeled, okay. You got no message. You have absolutely no experience managing anything. He has never really had a day job.”

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