Campaign manager video wars!

Love it.

Upon seeing the strategy video posted by Rick Lazio’s campaign manager, Kevin Fullington; Carl Paladino’s campaign manager Michael Caputo, fowarded me his own version, along with the following comment: “So campaign manager videos are news? I never knew. Guess I’ll have to get my hair cut more often.”

In this clip, dated May 10, Caputo is getting a haircut and engaging in a heated conversation with his barber, Jack, (whose hobby appears to be enaging his customers in political debates while cutting their hair) about the current budget battle in Albany.

Caputo has some harsh words for Gov. David Paterson, saying he and his predecessors have “treated the Legislature like a bunch of spoiled children.”

“The fact is the rotten apples are in the leadership,” Caputo continues.

“We look at Sheldon Silver. We look at John Sampson. All these other characters. You know, they’re rotten apples, and the best way to tell they’re rotten apples is if you look who their real job is with…Both of them work for personal injury lawfirms.”

“Both of them are blocking real reform. And both of them are keeping the cost of doing business for every small businessman – for you, Jack – and for every small, medium-sized business in this state. They’re keeping the cost terribly high. Just to protect their own personal million-dollar high.”

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