I absolutely loved Pataki’s very first act aafter being sworn in as governor.
There was this convicted criminal who was serving a 25year to life sentence in New York. He somehow escaped and went to I think Missouri or Mississippi. While there he murdered a corrections officer, was tried and sentenced to death. Mario Cuomo, Andrew’s dad, had the vermin extradited to New York to serve the rest of his New York sentence.
A couple years later Cuomo lost to Pataki.
First thing Pataki did as governor was pardon the killer of his New York crimes.
The other state stepped in, extradited him, and the scum was executed 3 or 4 weeks later.
I like that story.