For someone who can’t bear the thought of gays in speedos “grinding against each other” in gay pride parades, or “brainwashed” kids whose sexual orientation repulses him, Carl Paladino sure doesn’t mind making a buck off of them:
But he had no problem when his son, William, ran Cobalt, a nightclub once dubbed Buffalo‘s “gay club of the moment.”
And he had no problem cashing the rent checks from Cobalt and another gay club called Buddies II, both of which were located for years in buildings he owned.
From May 2004 through July 2006, William Paladino co-owned a nightclub on Delaware Ave. in downtown Buffalo, records show.
Liquor license records show the club was run under the corporate name 2975 Group LLC, while the building it was housed in was owned by one of Carl Paladino‘s many companies, the Huron Group LLC.
Oops.
But that’s okay, in 2005 the Cobalt turned straight, just the way Christine O’Donnell swearstogod that gays and lesbians can. See? Problem solved.
However, when the Cobalt converted, it abruptly put a few (gay) people out of work. How compassionate and not prejudiced:
“The way that they did it was really horrible,” he said. “They told us we were no longer going to be a gay bar, that we were no longer going to have jobs.”
He said the owners kept Cobalt’s three straight bartenders and got rid of the rest: “They got rid of all of us gay people.”
Nah, no bigotry there.
Apparently that little switcheroo wasn’t the best business move (and this guy wants to run a state?). After a stabbing at the club, and getting busted for selling alcohol to minors, their liquor license was pulled.
The “Family Values Party” strikes again.
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