Amid latest scandal, New York Governor David Paterson screws likely opponent
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New Yorkers are going to wake up tomorrow morning to news that Governor Paterson has suspended David W. Johnson, one of his senior aides. This is an administration that never should have been, and now it’s in a profound crisis. The question is whether or not it’s an administration that’s still going to fool around with the fiction that it can actually be elected to a full term in the governor’s office.
I don’t want to get too caught up in the question of Mr. Johnson’s relationship with a woman who apparently had sought a protection order against him afte