Governor, it's the Batphone

posted Mon at 3:09 PM

Lots of interesting details in today's NYT story about the behind-the-scenes adjustments made to accommodate David Paterson's blindness. Among them: the governor's staff leaves him a series of 5-minute voice mails every night to brief him for the next day. Paterson's aides call that number the "Batphone."

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