If Spitzer goes, would Governor Paterson be the first blind governor in the United States? He would certainly be the first governor who ever filed a bill, repeatedly, that would’ve made it legal for suspects to resist arrest by police officers – sound crazy? Check it out.

Eliot Spitzer’s would-be successor is a street-smart New York City politician who ascended by serving the Democratic Party and the voters in his Harlem-area State Senate district.Lt. Gov. David A. Paterson, who once called himself a “bomb thrower,” would become New York’s first African-American governor and only the eighth in American history if Spitzer resigns. He’s 53, plays pickup basketball and in 1999 completed the New York City Marathon.

“David Paterson is no stranger to Buffalo,” said Mayor Byron W. Brown, who served with Paterson in the State Senate earlier this decade and cast one of the deciding votes that elevated Paterson to Senate minority leader in 2002.

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