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Toledo Adult Entertainment: WTOL.com, Toledo’s News Leader, News 11 | NY governor abandons bid for full, 4 …
February 27, 2010 | | Leave a Comment
While politicians from both parties wouldn’t say the governor should resign because of the scandal, the city’s leading tabloids called for his ouster in front-page editorials Friday.
“Time to go, Dave,” the New York Post said in its headline. The New York Daily News said that Paterson had “demeaned his high office” and was not trustworthy.
Paterson insisted that he would not resign and pledged to serve out his term “fighting for the state of New York.”
Paterson took office amid the prostitution scandal that ended Eliot Spitzer’s term, defiantly introducing himself to legislators at his swearing in, declaring: “I am David Paterson and I am the governor of New York!” Lawmakers cheered and welcomed the collegial former senator, especially after Spitzer’s hardball tactics that alienated many of them. But two years later, his agenda was stalled, lawmakers disregarded him and he was sinking in the polls.
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