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Erie County Executive Collins regrets comparing Sheldon Silver to Hitler, anti-Christ
Monday, October 26th 2009, 4:00 AM
An upstate Republican who's eying a run for governor has compared Shelly Silver, the Orthodox Jewish speaker of the state Assembly, with Adolf Hitler and the anti-Christ.
And now Erie County Executive Chris Collins says he's really, really sorry.
The slur came during a speech Saturday night to fellow Republicans in Buffalo, while slamming Albany's notorious "three men in a room" budget process - in which the governor and legislative leaders make deals in private.
Collins referenced famed French seer Nostradamus' prediction that there would be three anti-Christs before the Apocalypse.
He said it's generally accepted the first was Napoleon and the second Hitler.
He said he was "pretty sure" the third is Silver, a Manhattan Democrat, two attendees at the Erie County GOP's annual fall fund-raiser at the Adam's Mark Hotel said.
"No one clapped. No one cheered. No one laughed," said a Western New York Republican who was at the event. "I know I didn't. I thought it was a little harsh to be calling someone an anti-Christ."
Through his spokesman, Collins said he had made a "poor joke" and extended his "sincerest apologies" to Silver.
Read more:http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2009/10/26/2009-10-26_erie_county_executive_chris_collins_regrets_calling_sheldon_silver_antichrist_hi.html#ixzz0b7WFq2OD
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