N.Y. governor candidate threatens to ‘take out’ reporter

On Wednesday night, New York GOP gubernatorial nominee Carl Paladino had some choice words for the New York Post's state editor, Fred Dicker, that could have been pulled from a "Sopranos" script.

"You send another goon to my daughter's house," Paladino said, "and I'll take you out, buddy!"

Paladino erupted when Dicker approached the candidate before a business confab and asked him for evidence to back up his claims that Democratic nominee Andrew Cuomo had been unfaithful years ago to his then-wife. Paladino responded that he had evidence but that the reporter wouldn't get it until "the appropriate time."

The candidate also shot back at Dicker over the Post's recent coverage of Suzanne Brady, a woman with whom he had an extramarital affair, and their 10-year-old daughter.

Paladino said the influential Albany reporter was a "stalking horse" for Cuomo and was confronting Paladino only to help out the Democratic candidate.

[Photos: Candidate Carl Paladino]

Paladino, a tea party favorite who handily beat establishment Republican Rick Lazio in the primary, still remains over 30 points behind Cuomo, the state's attorney general, in a recent poll. In another poll, more than half of the respondents said Paladino is unfit to the governor. But Paladino continues fighting, and fired back at Cuomo's camp on Wednesday, blaming them for leaking details of his private life and information about his campaign staffers to the media.

Kaitlyn Ross, who covers New York state politics for "Capitol Tonight," caught the heated exchange on her cell phone. You can watch the video below.

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(Photo: AP/Don Heupel)