I'm sorry, Pataki is a complete disaster. To say he is better than Cuomo, although possibly true, does not explain away his record.
The before and after items are what tells the tale.
We have the highest taxes of anywhere. There are never proposed spending cuts, never increased freedoms, never bills to cut waste fraud and abuse.
You can delude yourself into thinking Pataki has been good for NY, I, on the contrary, think he has made this state worse than from when he took office.
The simple statements of fact that I made on this thread are true. Anything else you read into my posts -- is your dilusion.
BTW, posters who claim to speak for many people (e.g. "the country") are dilusional.