"Fourth Paterson staffer quits amid scandal" by Associated Press | March 18, 2010
ALBANY, N.Y. — Governor David Paterson’s press secretary yesterday became the fourth top staffer to quit amid dual scandals, resigning hours after her boss publicly proclaimed for the first time that he did nothing wrong when he talked to a woman who had accused one of his top aides of abuse.
You still haven't gotten rid of that corrupt slime yet, New York?
Related: The Patterson Probe
Don't go to far if you don't want to become immersed in shit.
Paterson also said yesterday on a radio show that Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, whom he appointed to the seat, threw him “under the bus’’ by suggesting he might have to resign over his role in the abuse allegations.
In a separate scandal that threatens his administration, Paterson’s lawyer yesterday released a harsh critique of an ethics violation against him for accepting World Series tickets, and the state’s former lobbying chief called the ticket investigation “an ethical lynching’’ of the state’s first black governor. Press secretary Marissa Shorenstein said she resigned after two years because she could no longer do her job because of the abuse scandal. The New York Times had reported that Shorenstein, at Paterson’s instruction, called the accuser on the phone.
Shortly after the contact by another Paterson staffer, Deneane Brown, the woman failed to show up for a court date on the case, resulting in its dismissal. Shorenstein reportedly called the woman days later when the issue was being reported by news organizations. A special counsel is checking whether the administration improperly contacted the woman.
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NEW YORK — In what seemed like a double-barreled whammy of political shock and setback, Charles Rangel stepped down as chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee because of an ethics investigation, and David Paterson’s reign took on a tick-tock, tick-tock echo as many supporters and foes called for his resignation because of allegations that he interceded on behalf of a staffer in a domestic abuse case and accepted free tickets to a baseball game.
All see: Rangel Removed From House Chair
Amazing how the agenda-pushing press isn't howling for his head.
Oh, right, Rangel isn't a Republican.
“I think it’s been catastrophic for the black community in America and particularly in Harlem,’’ said Bill Lynch, a political consultant who played a major role in Mayor David Dinkins’s historic 1989 election victory. “Harlem’s seeing their political favorite sons go down. And what I’m worried about is that this could set our community back decades.’’
Honestly, I'M SICK of the DIVISIONS and SPECIAL INTERESTS!
One could roam around the wind-whipped avenues and boulevards of Harlem after it all and sense a grave uncertainty about the political future. Emotions ranged from shame to embarrassment to pity.
From stoop to street corner, from office tower to diner, from living room to the famed Showman’s Cafe, the mood was alternately one of anger, defiance, and soul-searching.
Inez Dickens, a City Council member who represents Harlem, said Republicans may be going too far in the investigations....
Well, FIRST OF ALL it is DEMOCRATS RUNNING the SHOW in BOTH PLACES!!
So meet Inez, the SELF-SERVING, AGENDA-PUSHING IDIOT!
Dickens was sitting in her living room one afternoon fielding calls from constituents worried about the fates of Rangel and Paterson. To yet another caller: “Honey, I hear you. Write those letters! The congressman needs you now more than ever.’’
Oh, so EXCUSING RANK CORRUPTION and SELF-SERVING POLITICIANS is OKAY in Harlem, huh? No wonder they have such a (deserved) reputation.
Yeah, I gotta get out of the city quick.
By the late 1960s and early ’70s, a coterie of figures — Rangel, Dinkins, and the late Percy Sutton, among them — had won election to the State Assembly. They served their apprenticeships in Albany but cut their political teeth in the competitive political clubhouses of Harlem. The community was on its way to deepening its political influence.
In her Harlem shop recently, Montgomery Harris was folding pieces of her elegant clothing, some of which are vintage. The scandals have unnerved her.
“It has created a situation where our black leaders have lost credibility,’’ she said. “And credibility on things that make them seem like nickel-and-dime thieves. When you weigh it against the kind of power they had, it’s sad.’’It is NOT JUST THEM, it is ALL GOVERNMENT because THAT IS WHAT THEY ARE!!!!
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Also see: Seneca Falls, N.Y., votes to dissolve government
Probably not a bad idea, America.