Neil DiCarlo, an anti-same-sex marriage marriage Republican who is launching a primary bid against Sen. Stephen Saland, has $12,336 in cash on hand and contributed $2,000 in a personal loan to his cause.

Money, for now, is a serious problem for DiCarlo if he wants to be competitive against Saland, a prodigous fundraiser who has deep ties to donors in the Poughkeepsie-area district.

DiCarlo launched his primary with the backing of 2010 Republican gubernatorial candidate and businessman Carl Paladino, who has pledged to unseat incumbent Republicans and install a new, more conservative leadership team in the state Senate.

No Paladino contributions were reported in the July fundraising report. DiCarlo did receive a $2,000 contribution from the National Organization for Marriage, a group that opposes gay marriage.

Saland, one of the four Republicans to vote for same-sex marriage legalization last year, has enjoyed the support of wealthy LGBT-rights advocates and others who cheered his vote.

In January, he reported $503,019 in cash on hand.

DiCarlo’s campaign sent out a news release very late last night blasting Saland and his supported from New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who maxed out his contributions to all of the Republicans who vote for the marriage law including Saland, Roy McDonald of Saratoga, Jim Alesi of Monroe County and Mark Grisanti of Buffalo.

DiCarlo also accuses Saland of receiving money from a “cabal of New York City financiers and militant homosexualists.”

Senator Stephen Saland has personally met with New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg several times in the last two years to write laws benefiting New York City. After casting the deciding vote on the legalization of Homosexual “Marriage”, Senator Saland received over $450,000 from a Bloomberg led cabal of New York City financiers and militant homosexualists from as far away as London and Denver.
Voters remember how Mayor Bloomberg weaseled his way into a third term. Now he wants to dictate to upstate New Yorker’s who their candidates will be, all while using the issue of Homosexual “Marriage” to draw attention away from that striking fact.

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