This pains me to say this about a fellow Democrat, but then I really am starting to doubt New York Governor Patterson is really a Democrat at all.

I think he is one of the worst Governor's this state has ever seen. Those "nuisance" taxes he was proposing were stupid, to begin with. So thanks to the stimulus from our wonderful President Obama, he is now dropping them. However, unlike our President, who is trying to get better health care for the working families and the poor, Patterson is trying to make it harder. Cutting aide to hospitals, taxing health insurance etc. Not to mention what he's doing to education, raising tuitions, etc. All the while saying he doesn't want to raise taxes on the wealthy.

He says they will take their jobs and run away. Please if they were creating so many jobs that we can't afford to loose why is there a fiscal crisis to begin with? We should be swimming in a pool jobs if all we need to solve a fiscal crisis is to put the entire burden on the middle class and the poor, and make sure the rich never pay their fair share, and can still shower their sons, daughters, wives, and mistresses with hummers, diamonds, and million dollar real estate. That's what this entire country has been living with for the last eight years so why are we are in the toilet?

If the middle class can't buy goods, because they have to pay more for their kid's tuition, and their health care, whose going to be buying the stuff businesses produce? Without a demand for the products the businesses don't need to exist, and if business dosen't exist, jobs don't exist.

Oh well at least those European yacht companies will be doing well, and the Hummer dealerships.

I think Patterson is a complete ass, and I sure hope we have another choice for the primaries.
He can run for the Republicans cause he's not a true Democrat IMHO, and we need a real one to save N.Y. State. He's a looser and if we NY Democrats nominate him, we will deserve to loose.

So Spitzer had a hooker, I still think he could have done a better job, and though I hate to say this, and am almost choking doing so I think even Puke Pecker Head Pataki wasn't as bad or as much of a Bush clone, as Patterson is.

I wish we could recall him, we didn't vote for him to begin with,and if he is the Democrat candidate for our next Governor, I won't vote for that office because I won't vote for a Repulican, even one who calls himself a Democrat.