The last paragraph tells it all.. It shows just how these people think about hard working people, people that don’t have what Spitzer has or Bloomberg types have. Not everyone was born with a silver spoon in their mouth, mine was plastic.

Is this the type of man that should be governor? No, I don’t think so. Let Paterson debate, what are you afraid of Eliot? One thing we do not need is more control freaks… Control freaks are the problem in this state, everyone wants control and power and will screw the people to get it. Welcome to NY, toll booth ahead.

SPITZER’S LIEUT. GOV. MUZZLED
ELIOT SPITZER hasn’t even become governor yet, but relations with his soon-to-be lieutenant governor, David Paterson, are already starting to come to a boil, Democratic insiders say.

The tensions are largely manifesting themselves at the senior staff level, with Attorney General Spitzer’s campaign chief, Rich Baum, minimizing or blocking Senate Minority Leader Paterson’s public appearances and downplaying his input on tactical and substantive issues, sources said.

He’s even refusing to allow Paterson, a gifted and witty conversationalist, from debating his Republican lieutenant-governor rival, Scott Vanderhoff, something Paterson believes is the right thing to do, Democratic sources said.

Paterson, who has a reputation as one of the few plain-spoken and candid public officials in state government, has “effectively been muzzled by the Spitzer crowd,” said a source close to both men.

“Spitzer’s people, led by Baum, are paranoid control freaks,” said a high-ranking Democrat.

“They’ve got a 50-plus point lead and they’re still trying to control everything and anything David wants to do,” the source continued.

Governors and lieutenant governors have traditionally had difficult relationships in recent decades, but Spitzer has vowed to do things differently by granting Paterson an usual amount of power and autonomy.

Some close to both men see a form of class conflict at work, with the mega-millionaire Spitzer, Baum and other top aides to the attorney general described as intellectually snobby Ivy League types while Paterson, the first African-American legislative leader, and his advisers are seen as mundane and middle-class-oriented.