NY Gov. David Paterson to Spend More Time With Family
As we’ve long been anticipating here at TMV, New York Governor David Paterson has finally announced that he won’t be seeking a full term in the Governor’s mansion this fall. After weathering a number of accusations and approval numbers approaching those of Al Capone, the final straw seems to be a revelation that he attempted to pressure a woman accusing one of his aides of assault to drop her case. Albany insiders are already speculating that the Governor will step down, but it will be at a time and place of his choosing.
Where all of this bad news is coming from can not, as yet, be confirmed, but it’s not hard to imagine that the leaks are being generated from the team of Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, who will run for his office. He may have some competition, though. I hear that a New York City Madame will announce her candidacy shortly, running on a campaign slogan of, “Let’s just cut out the middle man.”
8 Responses to “NY Gov. David Paterson to Spend More Time With Family”
You think that's bad…..Rangel just got busted for taking free plane rides to the Caribbean!
Will someone please fire that guy!!
Good catch, Jazz. I was scanning the radio this morning and Don Imus (who had Paterson on his show, I believe, not long ago) was stating that there was more scandal. It also made me think about Obama:
Often Obama has been arrogant and inept, and he was highly objectionable when he intruded into the New York election at one time some months ago, trying to get Paterson to drop out of the race. (The very act of intruding at all was offensive as well as arrogant.) Now, Obama's behavior was and remains disturbing, but with this news about Paterson, it does make me wonder how much Obama knew, that had led him to want to interfere in New York some months ago. I.e., he was “proven right.”
Rangel — I heard that last night. He looks like a combination of Felix the Cat and Vito, or Fingers.
After the November elections, will ObamaCo have people like Charlie revise a “fairer” federal tax code?
Was that some sort of backhanded compliment?
Welcome Governor Cuomo…..
Will someone please fire that guy!!”
Are you kidding, he and Dodd were two of the most sincere people speaking at Washington's version of a Steel Cage Match. (Mrs. McMahon for president.)
“Welcome Governor Cuomo”
Politically, New York's “preeminence” is as obsolescent as the black-and-white steam-train movies in Eliot Spitzer's “return to greatness” campaign advertising a number of years ago. Many politicians wallowing in past ancient Blue Nation glory is a bad enough thing there (they still may view the governorship there as something special, and conferring a possible birthright to the federal Presidency, it sometimes seems, as if they're “Detroit bubbleish” and still believing it's no later than 1965), but they've taken the state even lower than ever in the case of people like Spitzer and Cuomo in office. [retch]
I wonder how consolidation of school districts and municipalities (overdue, with the elimination of many a government fiefdom and enormous numbers of bureaucrat jobs) is going in New York, and related states.
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