David Paterson

ALBANY—The counsel for the Commission on Judicial Nomination, which yesterday released seven candidates to replace retiring Chief Judge Judith Kaye, said he cannot comment on specific deliberations of the group before it nominated an all-male, mostly white slate.  read more »

From PolitickerPA reported Dan Hirschhorn, at the National Governors Association in Philadelphia:

David Paterson reiterated today that he would take his time in choosing a Senate replacement for Hillary Clinton, and that no announcement would be made until after she is confirmed as secretary of state by the Senate.  read more »

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ALBANY—The state teachers' union said it is prepared to take the same measures this legislative session as last in fighting against a cap on property taxes.  read more »

ALBANY—David Paterson said a list of nominees to replace retiring Chief Judge Judith Kaye, the state's top judge, was "disturbing" on first impression.  read more »

ALBANY—He'd no longer be speculating on speculation, but David Paterson still won't say much about who he might appoint to Hillary Clinton's senate seat, except to praise her as she moves toward becoming s  read more »

ALBANY—Representative Kirsten Gillibrand's name is persistently circulating--along with many others--as a possible replacement for Hillary Clinton in the Senate, but the idea may dissolve i  read more »

Ravi Batra, an attorney who seems to be everywhere something political is happening, said that what New York needs in a new senator is “somebody who can go out and get the bacon.”  read more »

ALBANY—Responding to the totally expected nomination of Hillary Clinton for secretary of state, David Paterson praised the politician he has long supported, and made it clear he is not going to announce a replacement any  read more »

A couple of interesting, educated takes on what David Paterson might be thinking about when it comes to replacing Hillary Clinton in the Senate:

Rodney Capel, the former executive director of the state Democratic Party, said that the governor should pick a replacement for Hillary Clinton’s senate seat that benefits his re-election chances.  read more »

ALBANY - It's official - Hillary Clinton has been nominated as secretary of state.

Here's what Senator Chuck Schumer had to say about it:  read more »

This summer I wrote about the need for increased public subsidies for mass transit and about the importance of keeping transit fares as low as possible. Due to over borrowing for capital improvements during the Pataki administration and the reduction in revenues from the City's real-estate transfer tax, estimates of the size of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's budget deficit continue to grow. The most recent estimate is for $1.2 billion in red ink next year. The MTA has proposed a "doomsday budget" of massive fare increases and widespread service reductions. They are hoping that the prospect of higher prices for less service will somehow scare the courageous and forward-looking leaders in Albany into action.  read more »

ALBANY—As a candidate to replace Hillary Clinton when she becomes secretary of state, Representative Kirsten Gillibrand is thought to be an attractive option because she represents an upstate district and would be the only woman to hold an elected statewide post.  read more »

ALBANY—David Paterson vetoed two bills that would have stripped powers from officers of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children and would have created an alert system for missing Alzheimer's patients.  read more »

Amid the speculation about the different demographic groups that David Paterson needs to appease when deci  read more »

ALBANY—This may go on  read more »

ALBANY—Assemblyman Jim Tedisco, leader of that chamber's Republican conference and one of the loudest advocates for upstate New York, sent a letter this morning to David Paterson offering his thoughts on who should succeed Hillary Clinton in the senate.  read more »

ALBANY—Senate Republicans are standing firmly behind a controversial plan to empower the position of chair of the Senate finance committee.  read more »

To view a larger version of this cartoon, click here.  read more »

Governor David Paterson said that for 15 years when he was in the State Senate, he tried to make committee chairmen more powerful so that the leader of the conference didn't dominate what happens there.  read more »

ALBANY—Senator Chuck Schumer said this afternoon that he had heard no negative reaction to New York State's inaction in undertaking budget cuts, and that the delays may even work to the benefit of the economy.

Schumer was asked directly whether he had heard criticism of Albany's inability to enact budget cuts in Washington, and answered, "No."  read more »

ALBANY—School boards knew they were facing the possibility of budget cuts, along with everyone else, but an open letter from David Paterson removed any ambiguity.  read more »

ALBANY—Senator Chuck Schumer declined to answer questions about who he thinks should fill Hillary Clinton's Senate seat when she becomes secretary of state, except to say it should be "someone who can do a really good job."  read more »

At the press conference earlier today, I asked David Paterson if had anything to say about today's Times article by David Kocieniewski detailing how Charlie Rangel helped protect a tax loophole that benefited a major donor to  read more »

David Paterson hadn't even finished announcing an effort to crack down on the causes of asthma in the Bronx when Representative Jose Serrano joked to reporters at the press conference that, no, he wasn't lobbying the governor about a replacement for Hillary Clinton in the Senate.

"I did that last week," Serrano said. There was lots of laughter, including from Paterson.  read more »

ALBANY—As we all think about the true horse race for Hillary Clinton's senate seat, most of the criteria have been mentioned: race, gender, geography, how they would deal with Chuck S  read more »

ALBANY—As people from all manner of ideological and interest-group affiliation lobby not to have their funding slashed under a darkening fiscal cloud, parks advocates are arguing for $100 million to improve and bulk up parks infrastructure around the state.  read more »

ALBANY—This picture could have been worth a million words, and raised an interesting question.  read more »

ALBANY—The State Senate will reconvene here at the Capitol the night before David Paterson is expected to present his budget for 2009.  read more »

ALBANY—Another part of David Paterson's budget-bridging plan was enacted this week: a tuition hike at the state's public universities.  read more »

Jennifer 8. Lee noted today that a number of Hillary Clinton's would-be successors were in one place this week when Governor David Paterson visited the New York congressional delegation in Washington D.C.  read more »

ALBANY—So, since the budget negotiations have failed to accomplish anything, and Washington isn't going to hand David Paterson a check … what now?  read more »

Paris Hilton broke up with Benji Madden so she could return to pursuing attention full time. [US Weekly]

Bill Clinton and David Paterson bonded over a back massage at yesterday's Triborough Bridge renaming ceremony. [P6]

Jessica Biel will not be overseeing a handbag line for boyfriend Justin Timberlake's William Rast label which, given the quality of most celebrity handbag designs, is probably for the best. [The Cut]

James Franco is perfectly comfortable doing two gay roles in a row. [R&M] 

Fidel Castro has approved Steven Soderbergh's Che for Havana's New Latin American Film Festival, though the cast will have to receive permission from the U.S. to attend the screening. [P6]

Unlike the Los Angeles outpost, New York's Nobu will not be offering a recession special. [Grub Street via Blackbook]

ALBANY—He hasn't declared victory, but Eric Massa is certainly acting like a congressman.  read more »

ALBANY—David Paterson said yesterday's public leaders meeting was "the closest that I’ve ever seen in public to an actual leaders meeting."

Susan Arbetter's New York Now posted this video, which, from where I was sitting yesterday, includes all the highlights.

See for yourself.  read more »

UPDATE: Marist sent the wrong date in their press release. Changes throughout.  read more »

ALBANY—For the first time since the state's fiscal situation really began to slip, legislative leaders will be accompanying Governor David Paterson as he heads to Washington to lobby for federal aid.  read more »

ALBANY—Fred Dicker, the combative state editor of the New York Post, caught David Paterson off guard.

“Governor, have you ever been accused of being a child of the Enlightenment?” Dicker said toward the end of a 20-minute radio interview with Paterson on the morning of Nov. 18. “Because children of the Enlightenment believe that rational persuasion can actually make a difference.  read more »

ALBANY—The Capitol is still trying to make sense of what happened in a leaders' meeting earlier today—it was long on theater but short on conclusions.  read more »

ALBANY—No bill will be submitted in the special session today, and Governor David Paterson will travel to Washington tomorrow to lobby for federal aid to bridge New York’s budget deficit.

This means no votes will be taken on Paterson’s original $5.2 billion in cuts and adjustments this year, and it leaves a larger deficit next year still unaddressed.  read more »

ALBANY -- Majority Leader Dean Skelos and Assembly Minority Leader Jim Tedisco are now team-negotiating against David Paterson over cuts.

"I feel like I'm having an auditory hallucination," Paterson just said, to laughs.

Then Tedisco made a crack about missing his honeymoon. In the middle of the Red Room. In a budget negotiation.  read more »

ALBANY -- Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos just told David Paterson that he still intends to vote on his deficit reduction proposal if it is introduced, and the two are in show down now.

 "We are ready to act on your bills today, and again you are accusing us of derailing the process," Skelos said during a public leaders meeting going on now in the Red Room.  read more »

ALBANY—The halls are packed with lobbyists and legislators, the park outside is packed with demonstrators.

About 1,000 of them, according to Billy Easton of the Alliance for Quality Education. They arrived from around the state on over 30 buses to rally against David Paterson's proposed spending cuts.  read more »

ALBANY—David Paterson pled for a truce with State Senate Republicans, continuing to say he will suggest, at a meeting with legislative leaders later today, drawing  up a compromise package of budget measures to address a multi-billion dollar deficit.  read more »

ALBANY—Governor David Paterson said there is no "short list" for who he might appoint to replace Hillary Clinton in the Senate if she took a post with the Obama administration.  read more »

ALBANY—The possibility of action to bridge New York's multi-billion dollar deficit grows slimmer by the minute.

Unable to win passage of any package - his own or a compromise - David Paterson late Monday balked on plans to have lawmakers vote during a special session and called legislative leaders back to the negotiating table.  read more »

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