Gov. David Paterson at a press conference on Thursday.
Posted on 02/26/2010 7:43:22 AM PST by GOP_Lady
New York Gov. David Paterson will drop his bid for election to a full term and plans to make a statement later Friday morning, media reports said.
The governor has faced intensifying pressure to abandon his campaign, as a senior aide quit his administration in outrage and the New York political world responded with disgust to allegations the state police and the Democratic governor interfered with a domestic-violence case involving a top aide.
Mr. Paterson's administration was plunged into disarray late Wednesday after it was reported by the New York Times that the governor and a member of his security detail had conversations with a woman pursing a protection order against a top administration aide, David Johnson, 37 years old, a close friend and adviser to Mr. Paterson.
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Gov. Paterson....Some dude from Chicago is on the phone...
Guess he figured there are none so blind as those who will not see?
So who’s running?
Obama won.
Andrew Cuomo, who is also the Attorney General of the state and his office is investigating the allegations.
Those chicago thuggery tactics really work, eh..???
Gov. David Paterson will not seek reelection; but will not resign
So, which is worse:
a) Having an aide who abuses his wife;
b) Bringing accusations against a sitting governor that he has an aide who abuses his wife, in order to get him out of your way in the primary.
I suppose Cuomo is just taking a leaf out of Obama’s playbook. Obama also regularly used crooked methods to remove his opponents from both parties.
Not that Cuomo needed any lessons in corruption, as he so clearly demonstrated during his years at HUD.
I suspect that Cuomo’s involement in the NYS pension money scandal is going to rival the HUD debacle.
Conflict of interest?
I confess that I just don’t ‘get’ this story. What’d Patterson do? Threaten the woman? Do they have him on tape or something?
When this first came out a lot of people said that Patterson was ‘gone’, yet there were few details. Still are pretty few details if you ask me.
If this is a Cuomo power-play it’s a pretty weak one.
Thank you! :-)
I understand a top notch tea partier is running…..these are the people we need in office. Cuomo better think again.
Feb 8, 2010
Editorial, The Wall St Journal
FR Posted February 08, 2010 by The Raven ...
HUD's Web visitors learned that in 1999 Clinton's then-HUD Secretary Andrew Cuomo established the new "Affordable Housing Goals" requiring Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac—two government sponsored enterprises involved in housing finance—to buy $2.4 trillion in mortgages in the next 10 years. Will mean new affordable housing for about 28.1 million low- and moderate-income families.....who eventually defaulted leaving US taxpayers holding the bag.
Cuomo’s historic action raised the required percentage of mortgage loans for low- and moderate-income families that the companies must buy from the current 42 percent of their total purchases to a new high of 50 percent—a 19 percent increase—in the year 2001." ... (Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
And don’t forget----Andy was married to a Kennedy at the time.
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REFERENCE Entitled, "Highlights of HUD Accomplishments 1997-1999," the document chronicles the "accomplishments under the leadership of Secretary Andrew Cuomo, who took office in January 1997."
HUD's Web visitors learn that in 1999: "Secretary Cuomo established new Affordable Housing Goals requiring Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac—two government sponsored enterprises involved in housing finance—to buy $2.4 trillion in mortgages in the next 10 years. This will mean new affordable housing for about 28.1 million low- and moderate-income families.
Cuomo's historic action raised the required percentage of mortgage loans for low- and moderate-income families that the companies must buy from the current 42% of their total purchases to a new high of 50%—-----a 19% increase—in the year 2001."
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From Village Voice report 8-5-08) Andrew Cuomo, the youngest Housing and Urban Development secretary in history, made a series of decisions between 1997 and 2001 that gave birth to the country’s current crisis.
Cuomo took actions that—in combination with many other factors—helped plunge Fannie and Freddie into the subprime markets without putting in place the means to monitor their increasingly risky investments.
Cuomo turned the Federal Housing Administration mortgage program into a sweetheart lender with sky-high loan ceilings and no money down, and he legalized what a federal judge has branded “kickbacks” to brokers that have fueled the sale of overpriced and unsupportable loans. (There were rampant rumors that Cuomo himself pocketed greatly from his HUD position.)
Three to four million families are facing foreclosure (as of 2008), and Cuomo is one of the reasons why....
SOURCE http://www.villagevoice.com/2008-08-05/news/how-andrew-cuomo-gave-birth-to-the-crisis-at-fannie-mae-and-freddie-mac/
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CUOMO AND BILL CLINTON CREATED CONDITIONS FOR MELTDOWN (From Village Voice 8-5-08) Andrew Cuomo, the youngest Housing and Urban Development secretary in history, made a series of decisions between 1997 and 2001 that gave birth to the country’s current crisis.
He took actions that—in combination with many other factors—helped plunge Fannie and Freddie into the sub-prime markets without putting in place the means to monitor their increasingly risky investments. He turned the Federal Housing Administration mortgage program into a sweetheart lender with sky-high loan ceilings and no money down, and he legalized what a federal judge has branded “kickbacks” to brokers that have fueled the sale of overpriced and unsupportable loans.
Three to four million families are now facing foreclosure, and Cuomo is one of the reasons why. . . SOURCE http://www.villagevoice.com/2008-08-05/news/how-andrew-cuomo-gave-birth-to-the-crisis-at-fannie-mae-and-freddie-mac/
Carl Paladino a Buffalo developer and good friend. I have been working with him for a couple months on this race. We need to get meetings together so we can get him in front of people.
Lazio will lose, Paladino will kick Cuomo’s a$$.....
Google Carl Paladino
Here are some links that might give some background.
www.facebook.com/pages/Carl-Paladino/130595325508?v=wall ·
www.carlpaladino.com
www.ellicottdevelopment.com/about-us/carl-paladino
So, now they’ll beg Cuomo to run (the goal) as he innocently insists he’s has no interest.
And, Cuomo will then inherit the 160 member state police security detail ~the New York State Governor’s Republican Guard.
Just comes with the job…don’t you know.
Thanks Hoosiermama for links that give some background.
www.facebook.com/pages/Carl-Paladino/130595325508?v=wall ·
www.carlpaladino.com
www.ellicottdevelopment.com/about-us/carl-paladino
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