New York Adult Entertainment: For Paterson, and New York, a lost chance
Posted Feb 27, 2010 @ 09:10 PM
Last update Feb 27, 2010 @ 09:18 PM
It’s hard to remember now, but Gov. David Paterson was a breath of fresh air when he succeeded his disgraced predecessor, Eliot Spitzer, not even two years ago.
Gone was the tough-talking “steamroller” who spent months fighting a pointless (and losing) battle over driver’s licenses for illegal immigrants; a man who distanced political foes and allies alike, and who was eventually forced out of office by his own hubris following a prostitution scandal.
In his place was a self-deprecating, soft-spoken legislator who came up through the ranks and demonstrated a commanding knowledge of state issues, on which he spoke at length extemporaneously (he had to, being legally blind).
But almost immediately, there were red flags. The acknowledgment of past affairs and drug use; the conscious but status-eroding informality (“Call me David”); the drumbeat of rumors about travel and lodging.
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