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So they are just completing kindergarten and are entering first grade, isn’t that special. We pay for their ineptness and refusal to work and play with others.

This is the problem with electing and endorsing someone with no legislative experience but yet is still involved in government. Spitzer was a bully as AG and tried to run Albany the same way. As screwed up as it is you must work with these guys and get them on your side to reform. Labeling yourself as a F’n steamroller and then threatening to roll over them at the beginning is not the way to get them on your side. Threats puts them right on the defensive and they will do what it takes to protect their turf as we have seen. So we have suffered greatly this first year, we face over a 4 billion deficit first year out and they are just moving on to first grade, Great.

We will suffer for the next few years unless things change but don’t hold your breath waiting for things to change.

Paterson: Spitzer Learning To ‘Play In The Sandbox’ Of Albany

Perhaps one of the books the governor has been reading of late, along with biographies of his predecessors like Charles Evans Hughes and Alfred E. Smith, is “All I Really Need to Know I Learned In Kindergarten.”

LG David Paterson, in an interview with WNBC’s Gabe Pressman that will air this Sunday morning, said Gov. Eliot Spitzer and members of his administration are making a concerted effort to make nice and share toys with his fellow elected officials, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno (especially Joe Bruno).

“I think that in Albany there is great dysfunction, but there’s also a culture,” Paterson said. “It’s different than New York City. And I think that our administration is now accommodating ourselves more to the legislative process, the speaker as well as the majority leader, and trying to play in the sandbox a little better. Which is integral to passing legislation.”

As for his own relationship with Bruno, Paterson told Pressman: “I beat him out of four seats in four years, and he actually still speaks to me.”

The majority leader probably won’t be all that happy to hear Paterson criticize him for leaving Albany on the last day of session in June when he could have stuck around and perhaps closed a few deals, prompting Spitzer to go on his “Where’s Waldo” tour of New York asking where the Senate majority had gone.

The LG also had some constructive criticism for his boss, saying Spitzer made it “real clear” how upset he was due to the “lack of cooperation” he encountered during his first year in office, but insisted the governor is serious when he says he’s trying to change his approach.
read more here and a link to the full text of interview.

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