New York City's fund raising shenanigans mean nothing in the real world outside the City. Out here in the boonies in the rest of the state Pataki, whose wimpy leadership has led to the decimation NYS's economy and thrown most hard working people to the wolves, is reviled as a tax and spend liberal (by conservatives) and tolerated as a manipulable fool by lieberals.
There is a meltdown going on NYS and it's laughable to consider Pataki for anything past his tenure in Albany.