dicker threatened paladino's daughter.here is no -- you can't believe accusations, you must be skeptical about everything you hear these days. lee: bill you scoffed at president obama comparing his goals to the abolition of slavery. you are wrong. he wants to engineer social justice. angel: bill, as a part rican i'm disappointed that congressman gutierrez don't have the cojones to tell congresswoman waters she is wrong about fox news and immigration. kurt: come on o'reilly asking gutierrez to confront waters on behalf of folks is beneath you. i asked him to confront her on behalf of the truth, that is not beneath me. >> o'reilly you are not fair. if you disagree with someone you loud talk them and cut them off. i loud talk everybody, part of my charm. i only cut them off if they lie or avoid the question. diane: bill, just picked up pinheads and patriots at the grocery store it was next to the ice cream. that's a sweet deal diane. i bet you are shopping at cost costco is moving a ton of my books. harry: just finished pinhe

daniel dicker is a senior contributor at thestreet.com. he joins us from the nasdaq. >> tom: dan, welcome to "nightly business report," nice to see you. >> thanks, tom for having me. fully 50% of the stocks on the big board down here in new york are either energy companies or they have energy as their prior no, ma'am input costs. you can't get any way from energy no matter how you slice it. all of us need heat in the wintertime. >> tom: so let's take a look and walk through the ages. investors in their 20s and 30s, you advice big integrated oil, and alternative energy. and the biggest of the big, exxon-mobil. what about the growth profile for a stock this large for younger investors. is there one? >> absolutely. first of all, there is a dividend history to goes for decades. that is something you want to hook on to early on. dividend stocks that continue to increase dividends across time. it is a great way to start when you're in your 20s and you have a stressed paycheck and can only invest a little at a time. >> tom: you also like alternat

>> works for dicker.the senior political editor for the "new york post" this is his team. these are his people. for god's sakes mr. dicker he has moved from being a journalist to being an advocate and that is wrong. i'm totally fed up with the gutter stuff that andrew cuomo has thrown at us. when spitzer says he's a nasty, dirty man it is under statement. it is terrible the way he's reacted by sending every bird-dog, every stalking horse has out to pursue us in the last week and a half. he sent out the three stooges first, koch, d'amato and mccall. then he sends out bloomberg and patterson. and they all make their remarks. none have to do with the real issues facing the people of the state of new york. we've been talking issues since day one. andrew refuses to come out and talk about it. tell us how you stan on obamacare? explain to the people why -- why they should take on this burden, this expense, why they should give up their kids' college fun for obamacare? explain that to the people andrew. come out

when dicker asked if that was a threat responding watch. at issue was dicker's demand pal dino provide evidence that andrew cuomo had been unfaithful to his wife. here's the time line. for viewers with weak cons r. constitutions you might want to sit it out. tuesday who recently came forward about a daughter he had out of wedlock a decade ago told politico to ask, cuomo, quote, about his paramours. asked for evidence, he said want me to go affidavits from the women and said he knew who three of the four women were. after his dust-up with dicker on wednesday, paladino stood by his claim yesterday. >> he was asking you for proof of allegations that you made that the attorney general, your opponent, had affairs when he was married to kerry kennedy. do you have that proof? >> i informed him at that time that at the appropriate time when we're good and ready we will furnish that. andrew cuomo has to account for all of his past and i will -- i assure you that this is just the beginning of what i will vet on andrew cuomo. >> hours later mr. paladi

dickers who is out there doing his work. mr.part of that same establishment that i have been criticizing right along. the government, the bad guys, the sheldon silvers. i have talked about -- i have talked about taking them out. and i have talked about taking them out of government and getting rid of them and getting them out of the hair of the people of the state of new york. megyn: i understand that. and i understand emotions were running high in that exchange with fred on both sides. i'm not sure where his anger and emotion was coming from. >> he was sticking the microknown my face. megyn: i want to try to get and answer to my first question. he was in your face saying where is th the proof of these affair. you didn't say i don't have proof, i'm just asking why nobody looks into his history as they look into mine. you said at the appropriate time you will hear it. at the appropriate time you will get it. you told politico you claimed you knew of three of the four women who andrew cuomo allegedly had an affair with and then yo

there's fred dicker, a reporter for the "new york post".tough questions for republican conservative gubernatorial candidate carl palladino and it got very confrontational. >> i want to know why you sent your goons after my daughter? >> do you have the evidence or do you not against cuomo? >> the at appropriate time -- >> he has three daughters how can you say that about him? >> i have a daughter too fred. >> you brought it out. >> stay away from me [ bleep ] >> what evidence do you have? >> you sent your goons after my daughter. [ talking over each other ] >> you made the charge. >> you send another goon to my daughter's house and i'll take you out buddy. >> you are gonna take me out? >> yeah. >> how are you gonna do that? >> watch. >> sean: one pal dean know made the allegation that andrew cuomo cheated on his wife during his marriage he was married to one of the kennedys. the other issue had to do with palladino was upset that his 10-year-old daughter was being photographed. he had this daughter out of wedlock, he's married, et cetera. th

dicker should have backed out.announcer ] ever have morning pain slow you down? introducing bayer am, an extra strength pain reliever with alertness aid to fight fatigue. so get up and get goin'! with new bayer am. the morning pain reliever. >> sean: as we continue now with our great amer >> i doesn't know if you heard about the kid that jumped off the george washington bridge. >> horrible. >> two fellow students one apparently a roommate, they videotape him. they stream it live on the internet of him having sex. the kid is so devastated. what should the penalty for something like that be? >> it is so shameful. at that point they have to be prosecuted. i don't know if there's a legal case. >> there is. we saw the girl last year who hung herself because of this. the law has to respond to this at some point. here's a kid that was embarrassed. it shows the fragility of people. >> he's 18 years old. >> it goes to show you the lack of accountability and as wonderful as the internet has been this is the other side of wha

. >> here's part of a confrontation between carl paladino and fred dicker from the "new york post."t happened wednesday night where dicker is asking him about, show me the evidence you've got about andrew cuomo and his private life. show me what you're talking about. here it is. let's listen. >> do you have the evidence or do you not? >> i will at the appropriate time -- >> you have three daughters. how can you say that about him? >> i have a daughter, too, fred. >> you brought it out. >> fred, that's it. >> stay away from me. >> what evidence do you have? >> listen, all right -- >> you don't -- >> my daughter -- come on. stay away from me, man, don't touch me. who are you? who are you? who the hell are you? i'm trying to ask him a question. go ahead, ask me a question. do you have evidence of the charge made? >> at the appropriate time you'll get it. >> do you like the body guards defending him? where do these guys come from? paladino said he's not accusing cuomo of having extramarital affairs. he said, i was talking to a reporter and said, why don't you ask cuomo about this stuff.

republican gubernatorial candidate carl paladino and new york post state reporter fred dicker were in each other's faces. >> what's the evidence? >> you made the charge. >> you send another goon to my daughter's house and i'll take you out, buddy? >> you going to take me out? >> yeah. >> how you going to do that. >> watch. >> it started when paladino was asked what evidence he had that his opponent andrew cuomo cheated on his then wife carrie kennedy years ago. paladino criticized dicker because a post journalist recently went to the home of his 10-year-old daughter fathered out of wedlock. today paladino said he's not apologizing. >>> 2 says congress gets nothing done? a -- who says congress gets nothing done? a new law might lower the volume on your tv. laura evans has your fox 5 top five. >> pretty soon you won't jump out of your chair when a commercial comes on. no. 5 tonight turning those commercials down may soon be the law. the u.s. senate today voted unanimously to require tv stations and cable companies to keep ads at the same volume as programming. the house has also given t

. >> okay, here's a part of a confrontation the other day between carl pal dean know and fred dicker york post on the show all the time. it happened wednesday night where dicker is asking him about, show me the evidence you have about cuomo and his private life. here it is. let's listen. >> do you have the evidence or do you not. >> i will at the appropriate time. yes, i do. >> how can you say that about him? >> i have a daughter too, fred. >> you talked about her. >> i have a daughter. >> you brought it out. >> fred, that's it. >> stay away from me. >> what evidence do you have? >> listen, all right you after my daughter. say that one more time. >> guys, easy. >> come on. stay away from me, man. >> don't touch me. >> who are you? who the hell are you? i just want to ask him a question. do you have any evidence for the charge you made? >> at the appropriate time, you'll get it. >> do you like the body guys defending him, the bruiser that came in? pal dean know told the buffalo news he's not accusing cuomo of having extramarital affairs. he said i'm sick and tired of people asking me

cuomo. >> paladino, now famously said, he would take out that reporter, fred dicker. if that same interview, paladino also backed away from allegations he tossed out that his democrat rival, andrew cuomo, had extramarital affairs in the past. paladino saying he only wanted cuomo's personal life to be under the same level of scrutiny as his own, even if he just had to start making crap up. >>> on the other side of the country, meg whitman, california's republican candidate for government is fending off new evidence that she knowingly employed an illegal immigrant housekeeper for nearly a decade. conan nolan has the story. >> reporter: in an extraordinary news conference, gop gubernatorial candidate, meg whitman, with her husband at her side, took questions for 45 minutes on the issue of her former housekeeper insisting she had been given documentation from an employment agency in 2000 indicating that her made was illegally in the country at the time she was hired. only in june of 2009 when diaz admitted to being here illegally let her go. you are not allowed to hire an

it involved carl paladino going after a "new york post" reporter fred dicker.his is a frightening scene that you don't often see, even in politics. let's watch. >> it says, you've descended into the gutter by suggesting that he was involved in extramarital relations when there is no evidence. if you have no evidence of that, isn't that going into the gutter? >> hm, well, the guy's been in the gutter and spent a good part of his life with andrew vargas in the gutter should think twice about trying to characterize me. >> you're a lawyer. you've heard the term and i'm -- >> i'm also a lawyer -- >> what evidence do you have? >> i want to know why you sent your goons after my daughter. i want to know. >> your charge against cuomo, do you have the evidence? >> three daughters -- >> how can you say that -- >> i have a daughter too, fred. i have a daughter. >> you brought it out, fred -- >> stay away from me. what evidence do you have? >> listen, you go after my daughter -- say it one more time. >> come on, guys. easy. >> come on, stay away from me, man. >> don't touch

dicker and anybody else in the press who -- who seemed to think that they can come out and bird dog for interview paladino backed away from allegations that his democratic rival andrew cuomo had extramarital affairs in past which is what fred dicker was asking him about. paladino said he only wanted cuomo's personal life to be under the same level of scrutiny as his own. >>> we've been reporting on the progress of the investigation in to the suicide of tyler clementi. he was a rutgers student who killed himself after his roommate used a web camera to publicize tyler's private romantic moments with a man. well, the cruelty continues into college. a university student elsewhere, her so-called thesis is going viral today. it's not a thesis at all. it's more than 40 pages of a detailed recounting of her sexual encounters with high-profile college athletes. she names names, she posts their photos, some shirtless. she describes their encounters, their physiques and their prowess or the lack thereof, and then she ranks them. the athletes reportedly are furious as you might imagine, their paren

dicker and anybody else in the press who seem to think that they can come out and bird dog for mr.t the hour. that was republican candidate for governor of new york carl paladino defending his anger after nearly coming to blows with "new york post" reporter fred dicker. in that interview with "new york one," paladino backed away from allegations that his democratic rival andrew cuomo had extramarital affairs in the past saying he only wanted cuomo's personal life to be under the same amount of scrutiny as his own. >> that explains it all. >> i take everything back i said about paladino having a screw loose. he's perfectly sane now. >> fred dicker, a tough guy at the "new york post," a big fan of andrew cuomo's, right? >> until he turns on him. >> just not smart to go after fred dicker and not smart to say you're going to take out a reporter. >> i'll try to take the other side. i guess he was feeling defensive for his 10-year-old daughter. "the new york times" saying he refused to apologize and blamed this reporter for sending photographers to take pictures of the little girl at her

. >> fred dicker. >> fred dicker. >> before that, he was really moving, had cuomo really upset. cuomo was cussing. six points, i think this hurt him badly. >> he was moving because no one knew anything about the guy. >> they like the tough guys. they like that guy. >> they liked the racist cards he sends. did he send you one, pat? >> he didn't go to college either. >> okay. i like it when you're against the upper classes, pat. i do. doesn't speak well of you, mr. cornyn, to be taking the position of the cultural elite. >> saying that having a college education is usually a good thing for government officials. usually a good thing. 20 years to get out of college usually means something. >> you were a speechwriter for the president. >> i had eight years. >> well, that's a long time. >> you were the establishment. he had the post office. >> i had nine. >> if you can count working as a capitol police, couple of senators, speaker of the house, yes, about 10, 15 years. they're both on the payroll. >> watching out for pat buchanan when i leave the studio. >>> there are new reports that

. >> fred dicker. >> fred dicker. >> before that, he was really moving, had cuomo really upset. cuomo was cussing. six points, i think this hurt him badly. >> he was moving because no one knew anything about the guy. >> they like the tough guys. they like that guy. >> they liked the racist cards he sends. did he send you one, pat? >> he didn't go to college either. >> okay. i like it when you're against the upper classes, pat. i do. doesn't speak well of you, mr. cornyn, to be taking the position of the cultural elite. >> saying that having a college education is usually a good thing for government officials. usually a good thing. 20 years to get out of college usually means something. >> you were a speechwriter for the president. >> i had eight years. >> well, that's a long time. >> you were the establishment. he had the post office. >> i had nine. >> if you can count working as a capitol police, couple of senators, speaker of the house, yes, about 10, 15 years. they're both on the payroll. >> watching out for pat buchanan when i leave the studio. >>> there are new reports that

last week's public confrontation in which he threatened to take out "new york post" reporter fred dicker. paladino said he is trying to change the focus of the race to personal and sensitive issues. he also takes a shot at andrew cuomo's legendary prowess. >> for weeks the media has badgered me about affairs, because i acknowledged my daughter. what i meant to express in my anger is this, does the media ask andrew such questions? andrew's prowess is legendary. no. this campaign must be about bigger issues, not affairs or divorces, because our state is in a death spiral. >> former house speaker newt gingrich is predicting a windfall for republicans this november saying the gop will pick up over 60 seats in the house of representatives. >> i'm going to be a little more optimistic. i think this tide is continuing to build. i think the 10.1% unemployment number by gallop is going to be devastating. i think food stamps versus paychecks is powerful. so i will predict that we are probably going to be over 60-seat pick up, and it will be historic, the largest pick up since 1932. >> his comments

but fred dicker should have known you can't go in there and wag your finger and body-block the aides. thought they were going to come to blows. on the other hand, i must say mr. paladino was way out of line. his anger seems to be propelled less by tea party, a sense of righteousness than by a personal rage at anybody or anything that gets in his way. >> eric: fred dicker with the "new york post." the newspaper is owned by the parent company of this network. i've known him for decades. he's a respected, but also kind of feared, you know, hard-charging, you know, reporter. >> well, we don't ever want to say that a reporter shouldn't be hard-charging. i mean quite frankly, i could never say that with a straight face. but there is a way to do it. and i think, i mean even his colleagues in the "new york times" and other papers said that he was very aggressive. i don't think it's just because he works for a republican newspaper. i don't think it really gets into that at all. >> eric: some wouldn't say that "new york post" is a republican newspaper. may be -- >> that may be many paladino's v

dicker wanted proof that.set because he said dicker followed his 12-year-old daughter to her home and took pictures of her through the window. right now it's not a close race. right now he's trailing 20 points behind. other polls have put the race tighter. we'll have updates when the next shoe drops right here on "america live." afghan president hamid karzai confirming he's reaching out to the taliban in hopes this government and the militant group can strike an agreement for ending 9 years of war. jennifer givein live in washington on this. how serious are these talks between hamid karzai and the taliban. >> reporter: president karzai wants to make you think they are serious. he told cnn's larry king, we have been talking to the taliban and countrymen to countrymen. not as an official contact with the taliban. unofficial personal contacts have been going on for quite some time. the question is how senior are the taliban members they are talking to. we are told these are fledgling efforts. megyn: why is it in

didn't the candidate for governor threaten to kill that reporter fred dicker. he would be what he has been in the previous races a laughing stock, a marginal candidate revealed as intem pratt, uncouth unfit to hold the empire state's highest office. this ladies and gentlemen is not any other election year. welcome to the show everybody. i am geraldo rivera. this is the year of the tax payer revolt. check out these real clear politics polls. just two weeks ago the opponent new york attorney general andrew cuomo led by insurmountable 33 points. 59 about 3 to 26 about -- 26.3 for pal dino. he is ahead by 11 and a half points. surging 39.8 percent which leads to my main talking point tonight. whatever else the particular candidate might be if they are pro tea party anti incumbent anti tax if they are anti president obama warts and all they are going to be competitive in the 2010 midterm elections. just a month away before we get to our hot to trot panel you will see what i mean before i introduce them it includes a presidential mistress and manhattan madam that bro

have the new york gubernatorial candidate palladino's confrontation with the "post" reporter fred dickere gop is damaging themselves with the prospect i was from the tea party candidates? >> christine o'donnell is really comic relief, and it's unlikely she's going to win and palladino got into a fight with a reporter, and i suspect many voters would -- would side with him. the press isn't that good favor these days, but i think o'donnell in particular is useful for the tea party movement and for the republicans because she has trouble paying her bills and she comes across as an ordinary person, and frank rich in his column today makes the point that she kind of conceals the fact that there's a lot of big money behind the tea party movement. some of their candidates, particularly rick scott running for governor in florida, is a former health care executive of a company that had to pay fines for medicare fraud, and the notion that this is a populist uprising is the narrative that christine o'donnell advances when, as rich puts, it it's really a billionaire's coup, so i think o'donnell serv

then last night, fred dicker of murdock's "new york post," something like the dean of albany journalists asked paladino for evidence. the bleeped word you'll now hear, we should note, is the f-word. >> you have any evidence of that. if you don't, isn't that going into the gutter? >> a guy who's been in the gutter and spent a good part of his life in the gutter, he should think twice about trying to characterize me. >> you're a lawyer. >> i am a lawyer. i'm a lawyer, okay, that -- >> what evidence do you have? something that most people would consider a smear. >> i want to know why you sent my goons after my daughter. >> i sent no one. >> i want to know about that. >> your charge against cuomo. do you have evidence or do you not? >> at the appropriate time? >> how do you -- >> how can you say that about -- >> come on, i have a daughter too, fred. >> you talked about her. >> i have a daughter. >> you brought it out, fred. >> stay away from me. >> what evidence do you have? >> listen -- you send one of your goons after my daughter. send them one more time. >> easy. >> come on. >> come on, d

. >> though paladino considers none of what he said to fred dicker a joke, he does believe he's the funniestforwarding the hysterically funny e-mails he gets every day from his hysterically funny friends. the network has asked me to warn you that if you have ever been offended by anything, you will be offended by what is to follow. i ask registered new york voters to not turn away no matter what you see. our participatory democracy confers on you the responsibility to evaluate this material and the man who loves it. mr. paladino's mass e-mails were obtained by wnymedia.net. this one was sent in october of 2009. the e-mail was titled, white house ball. one year earlier, he sent a video called obama inauguration rehearsal. it's no longer online, but you can see by this screen grab it was, in fact, video of a tribal dance in africa. another e-mail featured this picture of a group of black men running from a plane. we've blurred the racial slur in the text, but you can and should assume the worst. paladino is also fond of sending mass e-mails of people having sex. which indicates he has a severe

the governor cut me off and talked about dickering in washington, but that's another thing.e say this. the reason why the governor's argument doesn't really penetrate florida voters is he's been all over the board. first a republican, became an independent. went down and nominated himself to sit at this table at this point. and now he wants to pick up ideas like row v wade. i'm the only prochoice candidate sitting here. i don't have to talk about a it. we sit in this economy at 112% unemployment and you know speaker rubio sits here talking about deal-cutting. he was the speaker of the florida house of representatives. that's all he did. he deal cut all the time and he compromised all the time. and he sits here and krit sighs the administration. i want to make sure everyone understands, you know, there's no milk around our mouths here of being new to politics. it's important that we level with the people of the state of florida. i'm the only candidate here to qualify by petition in this state. the reason i did it is so i could carry the voices of floridians. i'm the only cand

o'donnell, but you also have new york gubernatorial candidate paladino's confrontation with fred dickerer this week. is the gop damaging itself with potentially independent voters because they have these sort of tea party extreme candidates out there that are getting all the focus but the gop perspective. >> you just heard yourself from mike vickero. he said that the gop is gaining with independents. as for paladino, he's a very tough guy and a very tough rough tough race on both sides in new york. no one expected the republicans to even be competitive for the governor's race in the great state of of new york and yet they are. christine o'donnell is competition niv the state of delaware. folks are accusing the republicans of being too extreme, alex. but the republican party was dead in 2008. it was moribund. all of a sudden now they're talking about whether the republicans will get 30, 35, 40, 45, or 50 seats, whether they'll take over the senate. so they seem to be doing something right. now if you focus on an individual incident in some gal's background, maybe it looks a little kookie

dicker and anybody else in the press who seemed to think that they could come out and bird dog for mrtions that his democratic rival, andrew cuomo had extra marital affairs in the past saying he only wanted cuomo's personal life to be under the same amount of scrutiny as his own. let's talk more about this. good morning, good to see you. >> good morning, chris. we'll talk more about the angry politicians but first about rahm emanuel, your white house insider who knows a lot about how this works. what is this going to mean? is this a big deal for this white house? >> first of all, it's a big loss. he is essentially responsible with the president getting most of the credit, but rahm emanuel is centrally responsible for the strategy that got for the first time in american history and national health care passed and actually despite everyone's characterization a version of public health care and rahm emanuel's ability to be pragmatic and get things done is going to be missed in this white house. i always thiso think he is goin the next mayor of chicago. >> will pete rouse make democrats h

. >> here's part of a confrontation between carl paladino and fred dicker from the "new york post."ing him about show me the evidence you have of andrew cuomo and his personal life. here it is. let's listen. >> do you have the evidence or do you not? >> i will at the appropriate time -- >> you have three daughters. how can you -- >> i have a daughter, too, fred. >> you brought it out. >> fred, that's it. >> stay away from me. >> what evidence do you have? >> listen, all right -- >> you don't -- >> my daughter -- come on. stay away from me, man, don't touch me. who are you? who the hell are you? i'm trying to ask him a question. do you have evidence of the charge -- >> at the appropriate time you'll get it. >> do you like the body guys defending him? where do these guys come from? paladino said he's not accusing quoem me of having extramarital affairs. he said, i was talk to a reporter and said, why don't you ask cuomo about this stuff. he's denying he's charging her with it, but this continues, he's still pushing the story. what do you make of this? he's saying i'm going to bring it

week's public confrontation in which he threatened to, quote, take out "new york post" reporter fred dicker. in a campaign video message released yesterday, paladino said he's trying to change the focus of the race from the personal to substantive issues. however, in that same message after taking that shot at what he calls andrew cuomo's legendary prowess, paladino -- >> i would take that as a compliment. >> now stop. ridiculous. paladino later challenged cuomo to debate like a man. >> we can turn albany upside down. we can take out the trash and bring economic growth, jobs and prosperity back to new york. andrew, stop the political posturing and albany games. come out and debate all the candidates. why do you want to exclude the only african-american candidate and the only woman candidate and the green party candidate? i just don't understand. come out and debate like a man. >> okay. in a statement last night cuomo's spokesman criticized paladino's comments saying he can, quote, con new yorkers. both men are scheduled to debate on october 18th. that should be interesting. >> wow. >>> i've

but does he distract from that message every time he brings up this stuff and he's yelling at fred dicker about infidelity and that kind of thing? >> as i said before, what the voters want to know is where the candidates stand on the polices. any time you throw accusations into a political campaign, i think it's a big distraction. so i think the candidates need to stay on message point, the voters will be able to decide whether they want then to -- them to run the state of new york or not. anything can happen with this election. it's going to be an interesting election. martha: it sure is. kiki, one thing i noted, andrew cuomo had an ad on new york television this morning and we're talking about new york, but these issues are broad across the whole country where we've got a brash sort of new candidate going up against somebody who's a familiar, long-time, well known name but cuomo's ad is how he's going to cut spending 20 percent, eliminate the decifit. these are not the kind of things that we're used to hearing democrats talk about so clearly the tea party and all these folks have had a

bill: last week paladino got into this argument with a new york post editor, paladino accusing fred dicker of sending photographers after his ten-year-old daughter. what did you say areaer? it's getting hot out there. personal, and that race, and so many areas. martha: and saying he didn't have any evidence to back up that accusation and that was on friday. so who knows if these guys are going to call a truce on the personal stuff but it's not getting them anywhere. bill: my guess, two new yorkers, ain't going to be no truce! >> march maybe not. >>> the tough economy taking a toll on state budgets across this country and one case in point is georgia, the state department of transportation is getting creative there, they're using corporate sponsors on their 511 information signs, among other things. raising big bucks for the cash strapped state but one watchdog group says it may not be such a good thing in the end. jonathan serrie, it looks like every strayedum -- stadium has a corporate nail on it and now down to little street signs. >> increasing in popularity. here in atlanta, keeping tr

fred dicker from 88.5 fm. barry krieger -- fred becker. >> our first question goes to mr. baker from laura pattinson. >> mr. baker, you signed a no new taxes' pledge. considering the slow economic recovery and what is facing state government, how will you keep that pledge? should you be presented with tax increases, would you veto it? >> think we should send a strong message that beacon hill will not dibail the state out. our competitive position has declined relative to other states. if we truly want to give those 300,000 people back to work that are out of work, if we truly want to head in a positive direction as a state, we have to stop going back to the taxpayers over and over again to stall the state's fiscal problems. the only candidate in the race -- i am the only candidate in the race -- i want to send a loud and clear message to everybody that business as usual has to stop. we have to spend send a loud and clear message to taxpayers and small businesses and families in massachusetts that the state will balance its books and live within its means the same way every