Everybody hates David Paterson

posted Feb 17, 2009
Days of Our Legislature

Paterson close cropAs we mentioned in Morning Blend today, things haven't exactly been going David Paterson's way lately.

Somehow he's managed to piss off liberals (for picking Gillibrand), conservatives (for trying to tax porn), state worker unions (for giving his staff pay raises), and blind people in wheel chairs (for proposing to cut healthcare spending).

And now Andrew Cuomo is lapping him in a hypothetical 2010 Democratic primary for governor. A Quinnipiac poll out this week reports that registered Democrats prefer Cuomo more than 2-1 over Paterson in such a match-up. Ouch. (A Siena poll had them basically tied in such a race back in January.)

The Q Poll also had some bad news for Kirsten Gillibrand.

Registered Dems in the poll said they preferred anti-gun Rep. Carolyn McCarthy to KG 34-24. That said, "don't know" was leading the pack at 39 percent.

Earlier on AOA:
+ Speculate on 2010? Sure, why not.

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tags: Andrew Cuomo, David Paterson, Kirsten Gillibrand

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The good news: Saturday Night Live is a repeat, so there will be no David Paterson porno tax bit.

The bad news: it's a repeat of the December show where Fred Armisen's Paterson impersonation made its debut. http://tinyurl.com/57flhe

... said Rob on Feb 17, 2009 at 3:34 PM | link

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