GOP gubernatorial nominee Carl Paladino is starting down a vote at today’s state Conservative Party convention outside Albany, and the get-together hasn’t even started yet.

Monroe County Conservative Chairman Tom Cook told YNN’s Wendy Mills yesterday that not only won’t support giving the Buffalo businessman Row D now that Rick Lazio has dropped off the line, but also is resigning his state committee post in protest of the party’s all-but certain endorsement of him.

“I just couldn’t support him because I have seen the Website, I’ve seen the e-mails, and I am not a prude, but I am just not into that kind of conduct,” Cook said.

“…Paladino on its face, he is a good conservative. Pro-life, 2nd Amendment, lower taxes, less government. If that was all it was, that would be fine. But when he engages in behavior that is real bad, I just thought we shouldn’t support him.”

“…If you look at his record, he was a Democrat until 2005. He gave money to (Eric) Massa, (Louise) Slaughter, (John) Kerry, (Chuck) Schumer, (Eliot) Spitzer. Then he became a born-again Christian and he is all of a sudden esposing Christian beliefs.”

“And he is anti-Albany, which is easy to do. But that is not enough. You can’t be a philosophical Conservative and have personal conduct which is repugnant.”

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