Pataki's wife Libby was begging politcoes to buy her new kid's book claiming "The Pataki's need the money"....
It's been reported elsewhere that Mrs. Pataki was paid more than $339,000 in 2003.....for her work "as a vaguely defined consultant to businesses and charities."
Most of her "clients" are linked to friends and political supporters of Gov Pataki, and some of those friends also have interests before the state.
The Village Voice and The New York Times have reported extensively on the Patakis’ main source of wealth, the good will of an old college friend, Richard Hayden. Hayden arranged a consulting job for Mrs. Pataki with a family medical-devices business and has involved her as a partner in lucrative land deals. As if the word does not getaround that the governor's wife is involved in land deals.....All those hard-to-get EPA and county and municipal planning board approvals better come through....or else.
Republican donors never figured their bucks would also subsidize a maid for the gov's wife. One FReeper posted that the Patakis managed to build a huge house in Garrison when he was a lowly local legislator making a nothing salary.
And let's please not forget that Libby Patatki---the one with the maid----is also doing the insider deals for the gov. Libby's lobbying and being in on land deals as a token partner when she knows nothing about the business, is a little nauseating.
She's obviously included b/c her husband is governor. Pataki's got his wife hustling for the day when he leaves office and becomes a nobody. At least the Pataki's can live in the lap of luxury while Pataki ponders how being a pro-abortion RINO short-circuited his political ambitions to be president.
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