Bruno, Paterson Offer Compliments — To Each Other
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Gov. David Paterson and Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno were all hugs this morning at an event in Troy, where the Democratic governor and the Republican Senate leader announced a $10 million grant for an environmental research facility along the Hudson River.
“This governor gets it. He understands what partnering is all about,” Bruno said as he introduced Paterson. “The people of this state need your leadership and they are getting it. We all here are indebted to all the good things that you are doing.”
When Paterson arrived, he joked with Bruno that his motorcade stopped at one point on the way to the event, but said “We better start moving. He’s going to think we are staking him out”—a reference to the Troopergate scandal that engulfed his predecessor, Eliot Spitzer.
Paterson said that partnering with the opposing party shouldn’t be seen as a sign of “weakness.”
“It just shows the balance that is needed in government,” Paterson said. “There’s a sense that if people have an understanding of each other and they get along and they are of opposite parties this is a sign of weakness. It’s actually a sign of strength.”
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Paterson is beyond clueless. His ideas of priorities are contradictory.
But could it be that Paterson and Bruno really are jolly for another reason? Fred Dicker reports in today’s NY Post that a subpoena was served in White Plains last week by Andrew Cuomo’s investigators. They are closing in on Pataki’s and Spitzer’s “dirty trickster” Daniel Wiese, the former state cop honcho they parked in the Power Authority.
There might have been lots of taxpayers’ money ill-spent. That could be bad news for Pataki, and still another dose of bad news for Client Number 9, Spitzer.
Ten million dollars for a RESEARCH facility. Not ten million dollars to accomplish something, ten million dollars to RESEARCH if there is something to accomplish. How much research has already been done and how much more is needed to confirm that that the ten million, for starters, should be used for problems that have already been long ago identified? Glad to hear, too, that the governor’s “motorcade” didn’t bump into Bruno’s “motorcade.” What do we have here, Louis XIV and Mary, Queen of Scots? Get in your damned taxpayer’ car with your taxpayers’ driver and get to the meeting – and tell your dozens of hangers-on and aides to meet you there. There’s no wonder these guys get along so well – they agree to let each other burn our money for special interests’ concerns and to pocket money dumped on them FROM special interests.
Can anyone in NYS politics cut taxes? Why do they always spend, spend, spend. Just once, I want to hear a story of a cheap politican who loves to SAVE money.
IS THIS JUST A FANTASY???
serving as subpoeana and finding evidence of criminality
are two separate issues…although I personally have no
doubt that the state police overstepped their bounds
There are looking at hundreds of thousands of dollars in this one, part of the dirty tricks project, and possibly also covering Pataki’s use of aircraft. If they get some of that, there will be indictments. Pataki and Spitzer are both almost in the soup. Both could go down. Whatever the state cops may have done, they did’t do on their own.
Right, Wahoo. Amazing how all of these Politics on the Hudson spend so much time on national political issues that have little or nothing to do with the LoHud area, yet neglect stories like Pataki’s links to Wiese and involvement in dirty tricks and other not-so-nice things.
No wonder some clueless commentators here think that having Pataki in your political corner is somehow a good thing. If (when?) the story finally breaks and implicates Pataki, Oros is going to have his own Jeremiah Wright moment.
and if Pataki is not charged….Sara?
i think bruno could find better company that the gov
He doesn’t search for company; he searches for companies.