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After all, people back home care mostly about school aid, pork-barrel spending and lower taxes. The gold star any lawmaker gets for being fiscally prudent doesn’t translate into many votes on Election Day.
In past economic downturns, legislators have been able to blame whoever was governor for blunting spending or for bigger raises for public employees. It’s going to be a hard sell to convince people that so widely derided and ignored a governor as Paterson had much of a role in limiting spending.
Does that mean that the Legislature’s fiscal prudence will grow with its increased budget powers?
The easy answer is no, but who could have predicted what has happened at the Capitol since Eliot Spitzer decided to keep a date with a prostitute in Washington, D.C., two years ago?

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Now that Paterson has removed himself from a re-election bid, Cuomo must be somewhat relieved that he won’t have to run against the first black governor of the Empire State.
At the same time, he finds himself pushed into an unbelievably delicate situation. His office has been asked to investigate allegations the governor and state police may have urged a woman to drop domestic violence charges against a top assistant to the governor.
If Paterson is found to have interfered with the judicial system in any way, he could be forced to resign even before Cuomo leaves the candidate protection program.
Former Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s fall from grace is well documented, even to that infamous cell phone call (“Client 9”) he made from the parking lot at Shorty’s Restaurant & Sports Bar, Pine Avenue, to a high-priced prostitution ring in Washington, D.C.

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The next day was the monument dedication event, and most of the participants traveled up to Point Park on the Incline Railway, which had opened in 1895. A few members of the official delegation also rode to the top of the mountain via that new form of transportation called the automobile.
As they approached Point Park, the spectators walked through the castle-like stone entrance that had been constructed in 1905 and was designed by local engineer E.E. Betts after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers insignia.
When the dedication began, nearly 3,000 people were reportedly present. The highlights included music by the 11th Cavalry Band and the Chattanooga Quartet, and speeches by Gen. Sickles and others.
Gen. Sickles, who was chairman of the New York State Monuments Commission, had lived a checkered life, historical sources say. He had once escorted a known prostitute into the New York State Assembly Chambers and had shot and killed the son of national anthem writer Francis Scott Key for having an affair with Sickles wife.

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It’s hard to remember now, but Gov. David Paterson was a breath of fresh air when he succeeded his disgraced predecessor, Eliot Spitzer, not even two years ago.
Gone was the tough-talking “steamroller” who spent months fighting a pointless (and losing) battle over driver’s licenses for illegal immigrants; a man who distanced political foes and allies alike, and who was eventually forced out of office by his own hubris following a prostitution scandal.
In his place was a self-deprecating, soft-spoken legislator who came up through the ranks and demonstrated a commanding knowledge of state issues, on which he spoke at length extemporaneously (he had to, being legally blind).
But almost immediately, there were red flags. The acknowledgment of past affairs and drug use; the conscious but status-eroding informality (“Call me David”); the drumbeat of rumors about travel and lodging.

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Man and woman accused of prostituting girl, 17
By: Freeman Klopott
Examiner Staff WriterFebruary 28, 2010
Prince William County police say two New York City residents lured a 17-year-old California girl into a prostitution ring run out of D.C.-area hotels.
The 17-year-old girl called police from a Woodbridge toy store early last week, asking authorities for help, police said. The girl ran away from her California home in December, and police say 21-year-old Julie McKenna helped her move to New York, where McKenna and 32-year-old Marc Brickhouse began prostituting her.
They eventually brought the girl to Prince William County, where she worked out of various hotels, authorities said. McKenna and Brickhouse were arrested on prostitution-related charges in a Laurel hotel Thursday.
– Freeman Klopott

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Published: February 26, 2010
It was Friday morning, and his successor as governor, David A. Paterson, was a ruin.
“Sad,” Mr. Spitzer said of Mr. Paterson. “I don’t know enough of the facts to say anything meaningful.”
That should not stop anyone else from stating the obvious.
Every minute that Mr. Paterson stays in office, he proves that the laws of political relativity do not apply in Albany.
Two years ago this month, an article in The New York Times disclosed that Mr. Spitzer had been a customer of an escort service — that is, a client of an expensive prostitute — that was under surveillance by federal investigators. Less than 48 hours after the article appeared on the newspaper’s Web site, Mr. Spitzer said he was sorry and resigned.

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Governor Paterson, who will be 56 in May, is still a youngster by the Gang of Four’s standard, even though he served for two decades in the State Senate, mostly in the Democratic minority. In 2006, he accepted Eliot Spitzer’s opportunistic invitation to join his ticket as the candidate for lieutenant governor. (Mr. Paterson was elevated to the state ticket, in part, because he is black, in contrast to what Ray Jones once said of Basil Paterson: “This is a man whose full scope was never appreciated and never achieved clearly because he was an African-American.”)
When Mr. Spitzer became embroiled in a prostitution scandal and resigned in 2008, Mr. Paterson became New York’s first black governor. A week ago he invoked the McFadden & Whitehead lyrics from the 1970s as he sought validation for a full term:

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Democratic officials in Washington were informed of Mr. Paterson’s plans early Friday, the Associated Press reported. The governor has faced intensifying pressure to abandon his campaign, as a senior aide quit his administration in outrage and the New York political world responded with disgust to allegations the state police and the Democratic governor interfered with a domestic-violence case involving a top aide. Mr. Paterson’s administration was plunged into disarray late Wednesday after it was reported by the New York Times that the governor and a member of his security detail had conversations with a woman pursing a protection order against a top administration aide, David Johnson, 37 years old, a close friend and adviser to Mr. Paterson.
Just days ago Paterson, a former lieutenant governor who assumed the state’s top job after Gov. Eliot Spitzer resigned due to a prostitution scandal in 2008, had announced his intention to run for a full term as governor.

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But Rick Lazio, the Republican’s Party’s likely candidate, who had been looking forward to running against a weakened Paterson, said Cuomo now needs to stop hiding and start answering questions about the state’s problems.
“Let the campaign begin,” said Lazio, a former GOP congressman from Long Island.
Waiting in the wings, to run possibly against Cuomo or Lazio, is Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy, a conservative Democrat.
“Andrew Cuomo will be our nominee,” said state Democratic Party Chairman Jay Jacobs, who dismissed Levy as without the “wherewithal or credentials” to challenge Cuomo.
For Paterson, Friday was a far cry from the day in March 2008 when he suddenly found himself being told by aides that the then governor, Eliot Spitzer, had just been caught up in a prostitution scandal and was preparing to resign.

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Paterson says up until the last 4 days, he was looking forward to overcoming the state’s hurdles.
But says he can no longer continue to run for office and manage state business.
Many people in area say they are not surprised by his announcement.
“After the way the state’s been over the last few year’s, it’s pretty inevitable,” said Dave Cuddeback of Ithaca.
Paterson says an accumulation of obstacles have made it difficult to continue helping the public.
Recent reports involving his top aid and domestic violence had fellow Democrats pushing him out the door with mounting phone calls urging him to drop out.
“He basically was a lame duck anyway. I mean he got in from a scandal from someone else,” said Cuddeback.
Paterson was Lieutenant Governor before entering office in 2008 after former Governor Eliot Spitzer resigned due to a prostitution scandal.

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