Amid concerns of nervous fellow Democrats that he’s failing to engage with the mad-as-hell man from Buffalo, Andrew Cuomo has launched a new TV ad that casts his GOP opponent as part of the corrupt pay-to-play culture of Albany.

The ad calls Carl Paladino “a landlord and developer” who traded $452,000 worth of campaign contributions for sweetheart inside deals in the form of a $1.4 million Empire Zone tax break for which he created only one job.

The ad ends with this kicker: “Carl Paladino, a welfare king who got rich by milking New York taxpayers. Carl Paladino isn’t part of the solution in Albany. He’s part of the problem.”

Cuomo is also launching another ad (I believe these are the third and fourth, respectively, of the general election campaign, which is just over one week old; here are ads one and two), that features Nancy Marie Bergman, a Long Island Republican and cancer survivor who got help from the AG in fighting her insurance company.

That’s the second ad Cuomo has released that features a Republican. The first starred former state GOP Chairman Pat Barrett.

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