Paterson Fills Hillary's Senate Seat


	Paterson Fills Hillary's Senate Seat

Wisco

1-23-2009 12:57 PM

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Wisco says:

This seems to me to be more about David Paterson than anything. New Yorkers outside the city have long complained that NYC dominates statewide electoral politics. He's thrown them a bone and demonstrated that he's the governor of all New York, not just the city.

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