Manhattan Adult Entertainment: For the Moment, Brooklyn Sticks With Paterson
Many of the county’s key Democrats, particularly black officials, have made it clear they would like to see the governor complete his remaining nine months in office. Despite mounting accusations over the past month that Paterson improperly intervened in a domestic violence dispute involving one of his top aides, David W. Johnson, members of the Brooklyn Democratic leadership have argued that a criminal investigation being conducted by former Chief Judge Judith S. Kaye must be concluded before any verdict is made about the governor’s fate. “People have embraced him within the Brooklyn community,” Assemblywoman Annette Robinson said, adding, “Hopefully he will be able to govern until the end of his term.”
Robinson, who worked with Paterson in the New York State Senate when he was the Senate minority leader and on the New York Council of Black Elected Democrats, said that she and other black leaders from around the state “definitely were very proud when Spitzer chose him” to run for lieutenant governor in 2006. When Gov. Elliot Spitzer was forced to resign over a prostitution scandal in 2008, Paterson became the state’s first black governor.