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Governor Paterson Threatens to Force Assembly Session
Last Updated on Thursday, 5 August 2010 01:15 Written by rslcpol Thursday, 5 August 2010 01:15
From New York Post:
Gov. Paterson this morning continued to threaten a political showdown with Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver as he vowed once again to force the Assembly back into session to consider a popular measure capping local property taxes right before the Nov. 2 elections.
“I think the public has the right to know right before the election” where Assembly members stand on the measure, Paterson said on WOR radio.
The Democrat-controlled Senate passed Paterson’s proposed property tax cap earlier this week as it finally approved a new state budget, but Silver (D-Manhattan,) under pressure from the powerful teachers unions, refused to allow the measure to come to a vote.
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NY: GOP AG Candidate wants Paterson contract Investigated
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 12:02 Written by rslcpol Tuesday, 13 July 2010 01:37
From Capitol Confidential:
Staten Island District Attorney Dan Donovan wishes the attorney general had the power to investigate a $297 million contract awarded to the firm that employs First Lady Michelle Paige Paterson. Donovan is the GOP’s designated AG candidate.
Company officials said the first lady had nothing to do with the contract — first reported by the New York Post on Monday. It was not competitively bid.
Donovan cites the Post regarding a legislative investigation, which according to Newsday is not actually in the works. Paterson has denied he even knew about the contract. Here’s Donovan’s statement:
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NY: Governor Paterson won’t be Attending Obama Event
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 01:17 Written by rslcpol Thursday, 13 May 2010 01:32
From WBEN.com:
While many other Democratic dignitaries will be on hand to welcome President Barack Obama, don’t expect any glad-handing from Gov. David Paterson when Obama visits Buffalo.
The only item on the governor’s official schedule today is a radio interview in New York City, and apparently won’t be in Buffalo.
Earlier this week, he told WBEN that – as of that time– he was uncertain of whether he would be in town and just one day after the event was announced publicly Paterson said he didn’t know if he was invited.
“In his own way, I think the Governor was expressing his unhappiness that the courtesy of giving him a heads up, letting him know that the President of the United States is coming into the state that he heads, wasn’t given to him,” says New York Post editor and Albany commentator Fred Dicker.
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NY: A Career Ending Scandal for Democrat Governor Paterson?
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 03:26 Written by rslcpol Monday, 8 February 2010 11:29
From MyFoxNY.com:
Paterson met privately with key Democratic leaders about his re-election plans as questions swirl around the state capitol about a variety of unproven accusations involving the Democratic governor’s personal conduct.
Paterson campaign spokesman Richard Fife said the weekend calls had nothing to do with the accusations but were “routine re-election campaign calls.”
“The governor started making calls two weeks ago to step up his campaign effort and get ready to officially announce his re-election campaign,” Fife said. “The calls were — and are — going well … And then look what happens — a coordinated effort to stop him and spread rumors.”
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NY: AG Cuomo’s War Chest Has 5 Times more money than Governor Paterson
Last Updated on Wednesday, 6 October 2010 10:24 Written by rslcpol Friday, 15 January 2010 01:48
From The New York Times:
Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo has not formally announced his candidacy for governor, but he is already running ahead in the fund-raising race.
Mr. Cuomo is to report on Friday that he has more than $16 million in his campaign account, dwarfing Gov. David A. Paterson’s war chest of more than $3 million.
The $13 million gap underscores a growing sense of inevitability surrounding Mr. Cuomo, with donors and other prominent Democrats increasingly viewing him as the party’s nominee for governor. The lopsided results also raise questions about the governor’s ability to wage a robust and competitive campaign for governor.
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NY: United Against Democrat Governor Paterson
Last Updated on Tuesday, 24 November 2009 02:31 Written by rslcpol Tuesday, 24 November 2009 02:31
From TimesUnion.com:
It’s been nearly six months since the Senate coup, and Gov. David Paterson has done something that no other politician has managed: He has brought the Democratic and Republican Senate together. The only problem They are lined up against the governor and his proposal to turn over budget authority to him if they can’t agree on the Deficit Reduction Plan that he sent to the Legislature today.
Both dismissed Paterson’s proposal out of hand.
“If the governor wants our jobs, if he wants to run for state Senate, that’s fine,” Democratic Majority Conference Leader John Sampson (left) said of Paterson, who was previously Senate Democratic Minority Leader.
“It’s an absolutely dangerous precedent,” agreed Republican Leader Dean Skelos (right). “Anybody who would vote for that doesn’t deserve to be in office.”
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New York Democrats Urged White House to push Governor Paterson
Last Updated on Thursday, 24 September 2009 01:07 Written by rslcpol Thursday, 24 September 2009 01:07
From the Politico:
The White Houseasked New York Gov. David Paterson to step aside at least in part because the administration was asked to intervene by members of Congress and state legislators who raised serious alarms about a potential Paterson drag on the ticket in 2010.
The issue is no small matter in a state with an appointed senator running statewide for the first time in 2010 and more than a half-dozen vulnerable House Democrats — including five freshmen.
According to interviews with New York Democrats, the request for intervention came from both Albany and Washington, where Paterson’s precarious political standing unnerved many officeholders who are worried about the prospect of running in a midterm election with a deeply unpopular incumbent at the top of the ballot.
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Former Lt. Gov. Paterson Ignores White House, Will Run for Governor
Last Updated on Monday, 21 September 2009 01:30 Written by rslcpol Monday, 21 September 2009 12:58
From Oswego County Today:
This will be awkward.
President Obama will be in Troy today for a speech at Hudson Valley Community College. Gov. David Paterson will be there, too, just one day after the New York Times reported that Obama’s political advisor took the unusual step of meeting with Paterson to ask him not to run for election next year.
Neither Paterson nor the White House denied the story.
It’s rare for the White House to involve itself in state or local politics — rare, but not unheard-of. The White House was involved, for example, in the switch of parties of Pensylvania Sen. Arlen Specter earlier this year. What’s rare is for the word to get out about the White House’s involvement.
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Governor Paterson to Work for Obama?
Last Updated on Tuesday, 25 August 2009 12:01 Written by rslcpol Tuesday, 25 August 2009 12:01
From the HuffingtonPost.com:
The rumor that Barack Obama wants to appoint David Paterson to a job in his administration is almost as old as Paterson’s stint as governor. Since the vaguest part of the story is always the identity of the job (maybe an ambassadorship?) it’s safe to assume that the rumor is not springing from any pressing need for Paterson’s services in Washington, but rather from the deep desire of many New York Democrats to see him go away.
Strangely, for a man who has spent most of his adult life in the state senate, where politics means everything and policy next to nothing, Paterson’s biggest disasters have almost all been political. He botched the selection of Hillary Clinton’s successor. His staff wasn’t even savvy enough to pick a date for a special election to fill a state assembly seat without creating a crisis. And his decision last week to depict himself as a victim of racism seemed to suggest that Paterson, in his misery, has forgotten even the most basic rules of the way his chosen profession works.
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NY: AG Cuomo has 2:1 Lead Over Governor Paterson
Last Updated on Thursday, 16 July 2009 11:40 Written by rslcpol Thursday, 16 July 2009 11:40
From Rasmussen Reports:
New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has a better than two-to-one lead over incumbent Governor David Paterson in next year’s likely Democratic Primary gubernatorial showdown.
A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of likely Democratic Primary voters in the Empire State finds Cuomo ahead of Paterson 61% to 27%. Four percent (4%) prefer some other candidate, and nine percent (9%) are undecided.
This is the first Rasmussen poll of New York’s Democratic Primary. Earlier general election polling showed Cuomo leading Rudy Giuliani but Giuliani leading Paterson.
In the primary competition, Cuomo captures 66% of the male vote and 57% of women. Older voters give the challenger even larger majorities over Paterson, the state’s first African-American governor who succeeded to the office in March 2008 after Elliot Spitzer resigned because of a sex scandal.
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