Obama to NY Gov Patterson: Don’t Run for Another Term

The New York Daily News is reporting as of about 10 minutes ago:

ALBANY – In a stunning request, the Obama administration has made it clear to poll-challenged Gov. Paterson that the White House would prefer he not seek election

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• The hound the Wold and the Sheep deciding what to ahve for lunch: By

Kirsten Gillibrand has been appointed to the Senate and Carolyn McCarthy is upset, Reid J. Epstien, Newsday:

Rep. Carolyn McCarthy said Thursday Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand’s gun control views make her unacceptable for the U.S. Senate and threatened a primary

Carolyn McCarthy is many things.  McCarthy is a widow, bitter,  and Congressional Representative for New York’s Fourth Congressional District.   However above everything else, Mrs. McCarthy is profoundly stupid.

Mrs. McCarthy’s husband Dennis was murdered by Colin Ferguson December 7,

Fox News, this monring:

New York Gov. David Paterson will name Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand, an upstate Democrat, to replace Hillary Clinton in the U.S. Senate, a Democratic official with knowledge of the governor’s decision told FOX News on Thursday night.

Fred Dicker at :The New York Post:

Caroline Kennedy last night withdrew from consideration to replace Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton – just two months after she rocked the New York political landscape by throwing her hat in the

• That’s OK, Jon. Tell ya what; Greenwald can claim I’m pro-torture, if he likes… because under some conditions I am. .. and for all the moralizing that’s been thrown at the issue, nobody’s ever come up with an even

It still seems a long shot, but could Rudi Guiliani still make to the White House, in 2013?    New York has been a stepping stone for governors aspiring to become president, both Roosevelt’s,  Thomas Dewey, and even George Pataki.    The

The Democrats… the gift that just keeps on giving, one scandal after another. In his first television interview since his former boss, Eliot Spitzer ((D) was ousted, Gov David Patterson (D)  has added fuel to the flame. Says the New

— and the whore you rode in on, WHEC-TV:

I-Team 10 has learned a Rochester woman plans to sue Monroe County after last month’s chain-reaction pile-up on Interstate 390.

The woman suffered a broken hip, fractured knee and

This one sure didn’t take long, Jacob Gershman, Sun, New York: 

Concern is growing in Albany over the prospect that, even as Governor Paterson races to get on top of the budget crisis, the disclosures of his private sexual

If this were a boxing match, it would have been called.   Another say, another David Paterson mess,    The Daily News, New York, reports, “Gov. Paterson says he may have used campaign cash for hotel hookup:”  

Gov. Paterson admitted

Can we say Governor Bruno?    David Paterson has been governor of New York for two days, and we now know of two mistresses.   Fredric U. Dicker, New York Post: 

March 19, 2008 — ALBANY – An attractive Olympic gold-medalist

Another morning in New York.  Another governor.  David Paterson was sworn in yesterday.  And oh  by the way, another sex scandal.   Juan Gonzalez, New York Daily News:

The thunderous applause was still ringing in his ears when the state’s