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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.