TO: Interested Parties
FROM: Nick Beiling, Campaign Manager
RE: Campaign Updates & Path to Victory
As the campaign moves forward, Sean Ryan is the candidate best positioned to be the next mayor of Buffalo.
The second week of May through the end of the month will be a critical time for our campaign. Our first communications priority is for Democratic Primary Voters across Buffalo to read in the mail that Carl Paladino endorsed Chris Scanlon. In fact, Chris Scanlon's campaign is being bankrolled by MAGA Paladino’s family fortune, which has given him tens of thousands of dollars. Carl Paladino is one of Trump's top supporters in New York.
Our second priority during this period is for voters to see this information on Youtube.
Additional detail
- Paladino has sent racist emails and made racist comments about both Barack and Michelle Obama. Scanlon proudly accepted Paladino’s support even after his history of racist and disturbing remarks
- Former Mayor Brown is NOT tied or involved in this troubling news. Chris Scanlon has courted MAGA, racist Paladino on his own.
- With a record like this, we can’t trust Chris Scanlon to stand up for us.
- 2025 Paladino endorsement: “Carl Paladino is formally endorsing Chris Scanlon for mayor. Paladino confirmed the endorsement via text message on Tuesday afternoon saying Scanlon, ‘is a very capable man with the vision as well as the management skill that the position requires.’” [WGRZ, 12/17/24]
- Paladino family had contributed $27,900 to Scanlon since July 2024. [Investigative Post, 01/21/2025]
- 2016 Racist comments on Barack and Michelle Obama: In his replies, Paladino makes remarks about President and First Lady Barack and Michelle Obama, including saying he hopes the president dies from mad cow disease. ‘Obama catches mad cow disease after being caught having relations with a Herford. He dies before his trial and is buried in a cow pasture next to Valerie Jarret, who died weeks prior, after being convicted of sedition and treason, when a Jihady cell mate mistook her for being a nice person and decapitated her,’ Paladino answered. Regarding Michelle Obama, Paladino said ‘I'd like her to return to being a male and let loose in the outback of Zimbabwe where she lives comfortably in a cave with Maxie, the gorilla.’’ [WBFO, 12/23/2016]
- “Paladino ran for governor in 2010, but his campaign was derailed by the publication of racist and pornographic emails he’d shared with an email list of friends and business associates.” [Investigative Post, 06/25/2021]
