Pataki was simply NOT maryoHomo... nothing more
Posted on 01/26/2008 7:06:35 PM PST by neverdem
When Gov. George E. Pataki left office last January, he was the dominant Republican politician in New York. Over three terms, he had shattered fund-raising records and had racked up double-digit victory margins in an overwhelmingly Democratic state, becoming a national political figure in the process. Mr. Pataki ruled Albany for so long that even now some swatches of state bureaucracy are still run by his political appointees.
Yet as the Feb. 5 New York presidential primary draws near — a contest that Mr. Pataki once envisioned as central to his own White House ambitions — the former governor is virtually absent from the political scene.
His aides are scattered among businesses, consulting firms and presidential candidates. His political action committees raised only about half a million dollars last year, and spent most of it on travel, consulting fees and office expenses. And he has yet to endorse another Republican for president, though aides said he is likely to do so soon.
“George has disappeared more completely than anybody,” said James D. Featherstonhaugh, a Republican lobbyist in Albany.
Which is not to say that Mr. Pataki has not been keeping busy. Last March, he joined Chadbourne & Parke, a Manhattan corporate law firm, to give regulatory and legal advice on environmental and energy issues, his calling cards as governor. More recently, he began a consulting firm with a former aide, John P. Cahill, to do similar work for private clients including Related West-Pac, for which Mr. Pataki is providing environmental sustainability advice on a major ski development in Colorado.
That work, friends and aides say, has kept Mr. Pataki traveling almost constantly. It has also allowed Mr. Pataki the chance to raise his national profile on the policy issues that matter most to him — like global warming and energy...
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Pataki was simply NOT maryoHomo... nothing more
When I left NY in 2000, Pataki was a Rino, but he sounded kinda like a Republican. When I went back to NY in 2004, he sounded just as liberal as Pope Mario the PIUS! I’m beginning to think it’s either something in the water, or if liberalism is CONTAGIOUS!
I don’t know that I would agree with the Times author that NY was an overwhelmingly Democrat state when Pataki was in office. Unfortunately it has become one since. But when Pataki won in 1994, the state still had Sen Al D’Amato, more Republicans in the House delegation than they have now for sure, and the GOP controlled the state senate, as they still do now. Plus Gov. Rockefeller, though he was a moderate, had won 4 elections from 1958 to 1970. Cuomo’s margin in 1982 was quite small. So the 2 parties were quite competitive there, I would say. You’d think a NY Times reporter would know this.
Hmmmm...I wonder why the NYT is even doing an article on Pataki. There must be a reason.
**Hmmmm...I wonder why the NYT is even doing an article on Pataki. There must be a reason.**
NYT needs to bash Republicans like a junkie needs their DRUGS. I guess they have a QUOTA?? Editors have to BASH X number of Republicans a month?? /sarc
Pataki grooming himself for a VP slot, IMO.
GoreLite. And stupider than the original.
He was MY governor and I have to agree...........global warming? LOL.......at least he’s had the decency to leave NY after trashing it.
My governor too. Watching him at work was like watching an Al D’Amato ventriloquist’s dummy devolve into a stick.
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