Paterson’s Campaign Moves Forward
Richard Fife, Gov. David Paterson’s campaign manager, said today that the White House flap provides a new opportunity for the governor to get out what he views is a record of accomplishment.
“We think there’s a record that hasn’t really gotten through as someone who has managed the state in tough times,” Fife said. “Not only was he one of the first governors in the country to alert both his state and people to what he saw as an impending crisis, which proved to be more than correct, but he also took action.”
Fife sent out an email to supporters earlier today to introduce himself and promote Paterson’s appearance Sunday on “Meet The Press.”
Fife was announced as campaign manager last Thursday a few days after President Obama’s aide Patrick Gaspard met with Paterson to alert him to the White House’s concerns about his ongoing candidacy.
Fife, however, said he first had discussions with Paterson’s camp about coming on board last month and joined the campaign before the White House’s involvement. He said the campaign waited to make the announcement public until after the September primaries on Sept. 15.
Paterson, meanwhile, continued to insist today during an appearance in Queens to announce health-care grants that he’s running next year for election.
He reiterated that he doesn’t believe Attorney General Andrew Cuomo was behind the leak of the White House’s intervention, and he sought to further explain that he wasn’t saying earlier in the week that he didn’t want to be governor.
On Wednesday, Paterson said in Syracuse that he expected while he was lieutenant governor that Eliot Spitzer would appoint him U.S. senator to replace Hillary Clinton if she became president.
He said today that being governor is the “the most exciting time in my life. It has been the most challenging time in my life. I love being governor.”
He concluded, “These are the times that define us. This is the world that we’re in. This is the job I do, and I’m going to keep doing it until the public tells me that it’s time to stop.”
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The public HAS told him it’s time to stop. Over and over and over again. Who advises him, Omar Manaya? At least the Mets have physical injuries. Everyone in Albany, including Paterson, is brain dead. This guy is so pitiful he makes that phony, Sheldon Silver, look like Aristotle, not an easy feat.
NEWS FLASH – Richard Fife, nephew of deputy Barney Fife, has taken a leave of absence from the Mayberry Volunteer fire brigade and sheriff’s dept to head up the Paterson campaign. He reported to reporters that everything the governor has said up to now was a lie made up by someone other than the governor himself, and that Paterson has no interest in any possible Presidential appointment until that appointment is formally proffered. Floyd the Barber spoke briefly at the end of the press conference and repeated his denial that he, personally, had anything to do with the missing beard and mustache, though some others in his shop may have been involved. Aunt Bea stated that she remembers the governor as a pleasant young man who never meant any harm.