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New York just doesn’t see anything in this guy

Paterson ranked as worst New York Governor ever. And considering the last guy was hiring hookers and threatening the lives of the opposition leaders…that’s saying something.

The newest results out Monday reflect the worst-ever approval rating for a New York governor.

Voters around the state disapprove of Paterson’s performance by a margin of 60-28 percent. Sixty-three percent of those voters say he doesn’t deserve to be elected to a full, four-year term.

Paterson took over last year when Eliot Spitzer resigned following his prostitution scandal.

Another telling stat shows 53 percent of voters think Paterson should announce now that he will not run for election.

“If there’s any good news for Paterson in this poll, I have not been able to find it,” Quinnipiac Polling Director Mickey Carroll said. “This was a bad, bad poll for him.”

This entry was posted by Dawn Summers on Tuesday, April 14th, 2009 at 11:32 pm and is filed under Politics. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

3 Responses to “New York just doesn’t see anything in this guy”

  1. chsw Says:
    April 15th, 2009 at 1:10 pm

    Perhaps it is because NY is a high cost, high tax state which has pissed away almost every geographic and economic advantage it has. Paterson has to deal with this legacy from every NY legislature and governor since the 1920′s. It doesn’t make his life easier that the biggest obstacles to economic rationality are members of his party. So, laying it ALL on Paterson is unfair. However, his reluctance to challenge Shel Silver – or to kick him upstairs to the US Senate – is all on Paterson.

    What has this led to? No one can re-develop upstate NY without running afoul of laws and regulations, even if one just wants to cut down trees that have grown where factories once stood. You cannot re-open viable mines. In addition, this is a closed-shop union state, which is another disincentive to re-development.

    Therefore…http://tinyurl.com/cpe2u2

    chsw

  2. Javon Says:
    April 16th, 2009 at 2:58 am

    So where does the blind man go if his seeing eye dog left him? Blind man leading the blind… That is how he is trying to run NY. When you start tax everything else that has not been tapped into yet, where do you go next? Ladies and Gentleman the Gov has announced a tax swimming or boating along the beaches in Long Is and NYC. There is a $5 swimming tax. Also you must now pay to go on the city beaches….. that is $10. Let me stop here, Albany might be coming on this website.

  3. Eric Says:
    April 16th, 2009 at 10:21 am

    Wait… you pay ten bucks to go to the beach? Hahahahahahahahahahaha. How much do you pay for air?

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