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Mayor Michael Bloomberg declined to speculate on the motivations behind Paterson’s comments.
“You’ll have to ask him what he’s thinking,” Bloomberg said at a news conference in Queens Monday, but he noted he sympathized with Paterson’s frustration with the way news outlets covered certain stories.
“I think the governor should work as hard as he can, not worry about the polls, not worry about his political future,” the mayor said.
City Councilman Leroy Comrie (D-St. Albans) did not respond to a request for comment Tuesday.
Paterson, who took office in early 2008 after Gov. Eliot Spitzer resigned amid a prostitution scandal, has suffered from a number of political setbacks, including his controversial appointment of U.S. Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-Hudson) to the U.S. Senate seat vacated by now-U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. He faces diminishing prospects for election in 2010.
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