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Paterson Prepares for Campaign
Karen DeWitt
(2010-02-12)
ALBANY, NEW YORK
(WXXI)
Governor David Paterson will soon formally announce his campaign to win election to the position he inherited nearly two years ago. The timing could not be worse for the beleaguered governor, who is struggling with a massive budget deficit, low poll numbers, and fighting off damaging rumors.
Paterson’s inauguration on March 17, 2008, was greeted with relief by New Yorkers, who had barely absorbed the shocking news that Eliot Spitzer, who had won election in a landslide victory, had resigned, after his visits to high priced prostitutes was made public.
“Let me reintroduce myself,” Paterson told the cheering crowd on that day. “I am David Paterson, and I am the governor of New York.”
Paterson made history, as the state’s first African American and legally blind governor, and for a time received the good will of the public.
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