Paterson On Dollinger: He’d Personally Swear Him In
Here’s a clip from Gov. Paterson endorsing Democratic Senate candidate Rick Dollinger on Friday in Rochester.
It was the first personal endorsement and fundraiser Paterson has held for a Senate Democratic candidate, and apparently Paterson’s stepped up efforts to help Senate Democrats is irking Republican Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos.
Paterson says Dollinger, who used to sit next to Paterson as former Senate colleagues, was talking about the problem of unfunded mandates before most and “All the good-government reforms you hear advocated originated in the Senate Democratic Conference.
“And I was the leader at that time otherwise I wouldn’t have brought this up.”
Paterson said he would personally swear Dollinger back in to the Senate and said, “It would be the most exciting experience if he came back and that this election brought the Senate Democrats in the majority.”
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Paterson is making a big mistake with this. Paterson is sounding a little like his friends Spitzer.
This well-meaning goofball, in the interest of reversing mandates, and effecting fiscal sanity, promotes State Democrat candidates in order to accomplish this. He’s either a BS artist or terminally naive. Trying to look on the bright side, I assume it’s the second. Either way, he’s spinning wheels.