Manhattan Adult Entertainment: Paterson call on legislature to help him "rebuild New York"
Last year, he gave a similar speech and promised to hold the line on spending and not raise taxes. Unfortunately, that did not happen.
Paterson’s speech came at a critical time for New York. The state’s fiscal woes are as bad as any time in its history, and scandals have rocked the Capitol to the point where just one statewide elected official, Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, is in the seat he was elected to in 2006.
And the speech comes as this year’s elections — the first time since 1938 that all statewide offices in state and federal governments will be on the ballot — are beginning to gear up.
Paterson has said he plans to run for a full-term this year after succeeding Eliot Spitzer as governor in March 2008. Spitzer resigned after being linked to a prostitute.