"Pataki is pretty pathetic but they could do worse..."
Eliot Spitzer comes to mind.
"The only things that I miss about NY are the bagels and pizza."
New York pizza is really the best, and I'm a native Californian!
We left in 1986 and not only did not look back, but felt nothing but pity for those that stayed. To understand what is happening in NY, all you have to do is visit Albany, that center of liberal stupidity and mega-corruption. Then take a drive around up-State NY cities and see the disaster that high taxes and socialist government at every level has done to wreck industry, commerce and the spirit of the survivors. And then there are the two RAT senators who work diligently at ruining the State and the Nation. Hitlery is the worst but the TV personality, Schumer, is a close second. Both are the reasons that no one with an ounce of brains could ever be a RAT or vote for them.