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NY: Poll – Governor Paterson Deeply Unpopular
Last Updated on Wednesday, 10 June 2009 02:05 Written by rslcpol Wednesday, 10 June 2009 12:48
Incumbent Democrat A.G. Andrew Cuomo has a 68% job approval rating. The state’s Democrat Governor David Paterson has a 21/50 fav/unfav rating. That makes disgraced former A.G. and Governor Eliot Spitzer look angelic with his 26/44 fav/unfav rating. Couple of real political lions out on the prowl aren’t they? From The New York Times:
With layoffs hitting close to home, those surveyed expressed little confidence that Mr. Paterson could bring new jobs to the state, reduce property taxes or deal with a serious crisis.
Mr. Paterson is now less popular in the state than his predecessor, Eliot Spitzer, who resigned in disgrace after being identified as the client of a prostitution ring. Only 21 percent of New York voters say they have a favorable view of Mr. Paterson; 26 percent have a favorable view of Mr. Spitzer.
Seven in 10 respondents said Mr. Paterson did not deserve to be elected in 2010.
In a worrisome sign for Mr. Paterson, the poll found overwhelming approval of the way Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo was handling his job.
NY: Polit Bureau – Who Wants to be AG?
Last Updated on Wednesday, 27 May 2009 01:48 Written by rslcpol Wednesday, 27 May 2009 01:20
Finally, out of the wood work comes A.G. candidates of all stripes hoping to succeed Andrew Cuomo who claims to not have his eye on the Gov’s chair. We mean he leads incumbent Dem Governor David Paterson 70% – 19% (No, that’s not a type-o) in a primary match up. Why on Earth would anyone think he was going to do anything but run for re-election. From Polit Bureau:
Nassau County Executive Tom Suozzi, who ran for statewide office in 2006 but lost a Democratic gubernatorial primary to Eliot Spitzer, is this region’s best hope to get a Long Islander into the AG’s office. But Suozzi, according to multiple sources, is still unsure if that’s the job he really wants.
“It should be,” said one Democratic insider. “And it’s a great stepping stone. I think he will do it.”
To Suozzi’s credit, he’s publicly remained focused on the 2009 elections, where the Democrats will be in a pitched battle for the county Legislature. Suozzi also faces re-election himself, though most expect him to win that race.
Because the attorney general’s office has quickly become a stepping stone to the governor’s mansion, Suozzi wouldn’t sail through a primary. Multiple Democrats are ready to pounce if Cuomo makes the move.
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Poll: New York Governor Paterson Looks Doomed
Last Updated on Wednesday, 13 May 2009 03:06 Written by rslcpol Wednesday, 13 May 2009 10:11
Care to guess what the worst kept secret in Albany will be? We’d like to a poll that compares Spitzer/Cuomo/Paterson. We’ve seen the Spitzer/Paterson head to head – now how about all 3 to see just how bad it really is! From Real Clear Politics:
It’s hard to imagine things looking any worse for New York Governor David Paterson. According to a new survey from Quinnipiac University, Paterson has a record-low 28% approval rating with only two in ten voters say he deserves to be re-elected.
As a result, Paterson trails fellow Democratic Andrew Cuomo by whopping 45 percent in a potential primary match-up and runs 22-points behind Rudy Giuliani in a hypothetical general election match up.
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NY: Sptizer – Stress Made Him Do It
Last Updated on Monday, 20 April 2009 09:41 Written by rslcpol Monday, 20 April 2009 09:41
Eliot Spitzer also rules out a run in 2010… but not beyond that.
From the Daily News:
He said he knew his actions were wrong and risky. “The human mind does, and permits people to do things that they rationally know are wrong, outrageous. …We succumb to temptations that we know are wrong and foolish when we do it and then in hindsight we say, ‘How could I have?'” Spitzer said.
He then added: “I’m not going to say anything that … should be thought to be an excuse for anything. But there’s got to be some element to it being a result of tension and release. And that builds up.”
He said he could make a case the public shouldn’t care about the sex lives of its leaders – leaving out the fact he broke the law by hiring hookers – but admitted: “You should be smart enough to know that those are the rules, whether or not it’s fair.”
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Now You can Bet on Disgraced Democrat’s Fate
Last Updated on Thursday, 16 April 2009 01:02 Written by rslcpol Thursday, 16 April 2009 12:29
Why not…maybe folks could start betting on who the next Eliot Spitzer will be? Or Paul Morrison? Howza about Marc Dann? From Chicago Tribune:
You knew this was coming, right?
And, given the charges of “pay to play” politics against former Gov. Rod Blagojevich, it seems almost therapeutic.
You can now bet on Blago’s fate.
“With public speculation swirling out of control and people searching for answers,” the online betting service BetUs.com informs us, the folks there have been gracious enough to post odds and accept wagers “on the shamed governor’s future.”
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NY: AG Cuomo Rebuffed; Congresswoman to be Appointed Senator
Last Updated on Friday, 23 January 2009 12:48 Written by rslcpol Friday, 23 January 2009 10:56
The PowerlineBlog has the news that shocked many New York Dems:
New York Governor David Patterson has selected Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand to fill Hillary Clinton’s Senate seat. I suggested early on in the process that New York’s large Demcratic congressional delegation might be the best source of a qualified Senator. In retrospect, I probably overrated that delegation, but in the end that’s where Patterson turned.
Gillibrand has only been in Congress since 2006, when she won an upstate seat the Republicans had held for years. She has not been a 100 percent, down-the-line liberal Democrat, having voted against the financial bailout last fall and having picked up the endorsement of the National Rifle Association.
As a state-wide office holder, Gillibrand may fall more reliably into line with her left-liberal party. Still, she seems preferable to Andrew Cuomo and Caroline Kennedy.
Steve Kornacki post on PolitickerNY that:
As unseemly as this is, there is – on the surface – something to it. Cuomo, like Eliot Spitzer before him, has skillfully turned the A.G.’s office into a veritable publicity machine, garnering wide media attention with high-profile prosecutions that, quite conveniently, will make for nice bullet points in future campaign mailers. Six years after his disastrously abortive gubernatorial bid, Cuomo’s has completed a magnificent image rehab.
Truly making the case to change the meaning of A.G. from attorney general to aspiring governor.
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IL: Blago Could be Gone by Feb. 4th
Last Updated on Tuesday, 6 January 2009 01:01 Written by rslcpol Tuesday, 6 January 2009 12:35
It’s not like the world is watching…oh wait, it is. State democrats across the country have their issues – not only in Illinois, but in New Mexico with that state’s Democrat Governor, a potential issue for Pennsylvania’s Democrat Governor – just keeping the beat going from 2008 we guess – remember New York’s Governor Eliot Spitzer, Kansas’s AG Paul Morrison, and Ohio’s Marc AG Dann?. From Pantagraph.com:
Gov. Rod Blagojevich could be out of a job by Feb. 4. That’s according to a tentative timeline taking shape among some state lawmakers, who are moving toward impeaching the scandal-plagued chief executive in the coming days.
A special House panel is expected to recommend later this week that the 52-year-old Democrat be impeached. If the full House follows suit, the Senate could start its trial of Blagojevich on Jan. 26.
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NY: Former LG now Governor Won’t Take Senate Seat; Wants to Run for Re-election
Last Updated on Tuesday, 18 November 2008 12:42 Written by rslcpol Tuesday, 18 November 2008 12:42
From Newsday.com:
Paterson moved into the executive mansion in March after the resignation of Eliot Spitzer amid a prostitution scandal. Paterson on Monday recalled the turmoil surrounding Spitzer’s departure, saying, “I wouldn’t want to put the state through that again.”
If Paterson were to move to Washington, he would be succeeded by the State Senate majority leader — Sen. Dean Skelos (R-Rockville Centre) currently holds the post — because there is no lieutenant governor. Paterson has the sole authority to appoint Clinton’s replacement if she were to decide to leave Congress.
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NY: Who Replaces Hillary If She Leaves the Senate?
Last Updated on Friday, 14 November 2008 12:09 Written by rslcpol Friday, 14 November 2008 12:09
From CBS News:
Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-Manhattan, Brooklyn): Has the gravitas. Lacks the patron he had in ex-Gov. Eliot Spitzer.
Rep. Nita Lowey (D- Westchester): Stepped aside for HRC in 2000 and keeps seat in the hands of a woman. A decade older than Clinton.
Rep. Greg Meeks (D-Queens): Up-and-comer. But doesn’t seem senatorial yet.
Attorney General Andrew Cuomo: Former HUD secretary has chilled out and moderated his nasty-man image — and moving him out of the way would eliminate a potential challenger for Paterson. His old rep haunts him and nobody, except us, has really floated his name.
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RSLC Supporting AG Candidates Around the Country
Last Updated on Wednesday, 15 October 2008 09:15 Written by rslcpol Wednesday, 15 October 2008 09:15
From Legal Newsline:
“But down-ticket ballot races are really localized…The people who run for state office are closer to their people than a national candidate, who may come into their state a couple of times,” she said. “We’re going to continue to do what we can to get Republicans on Nov. 4.”
Cantrell said voters need to know there is a “fundamental difference” in legal philosophy between Republican and Democratic attorneys general.
“Republican attorneys general understand that they are to apply the law, not to create law or to be activist attorneys general to go out there and try to grab headlines,” she told Legal Newsline.
Among Democrats who have acted recklessly as their states’ chief legal officer by trying to advance their own cause, she said, are former Attorneys General Eliot Spitzer of New York, who resigned as governor after revelations he was involved with a prostitution ring, and Marc Dann of Ohio, who resigned in mid-May amid a sexual harassment scandal.
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