Paterson’s Town Hall
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- January
- 30
Gov. David Paterson is holding his second upstate town-hall meeting now since his State of the State address earlier this month.
He’s in Johnstown, Fulton County, a place with a roughly 9 percent unemployment rate. He’s heard about the troubles facing the middle class, and one woman asked him not to further burden homeowners by more fees and taxes.
But Paterson warned that the state’s fiscal problems are real, saying the state faces a $15.4 billion budget gap and that the state provides billions more to Washington than it receives back.
He’s receiving a better response, however, that he’s gotten in recent weeks.
Asked by a show of hands if they support Paterson’s pick of Albany area Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand for the Senate seat, the overwhelmingly majority of audience members raised their hand in approval. Only maybe three people raised their hand that they didn’t like the selection.
The moderator, local radio show host Bob Cudmore, joked that isn’t Paterson happy he’s not in New York City.
Paterson responded, “I live in Manhattan. People in Manhattan are going to have to get over it” that he picked Gillibrand.
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