Comments on: NY gov names lieutenant governor in Senate fight

By: mike/

mike/ — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:25:07 +0000

well now. is he taking a play from Zelaya in Honduras?

one of the indictments against him, besides the illegal election, is that he appointed a vice-presidential tribunal when the constitution does not give him the power.

i do agree with the analogy of what the NY legislature did. there does seem to be a lot of “extra-constitutionality” going on around the world these days!

plus ça change…?

By: Kari

Kari — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:02:26 +0000

Will New Yorkers see this and change their (generally negative) opinions of Patterson? I wonder.

By: rogerma

rogerma — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:36:39 +0000

If the republicans can secretly plot to take control of the State Senate away from the democrats, as they did, I see no reason why Governor Paterson can’t do what he did, by appointing Mr. Ravitch as lieutenant governor, to get these jackles back to work on the peoples business. You go, Gov. Patersonn!

By: Sean from NJ

Sean from NJ — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:00:54 +0000

I would assume that Paterson would appoint someone with political views that are in line with own, but you never know. Also, the nasty NYS Republicans got a judge to block the appointment temporarily.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:23:27 +0000

none so far and i have been searching far and wide to find out if this man is yay or nay.

By: Jennifer Vanasco

Jennifer Vanasco — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:20:01 +0000

I haven’t been able to find anything on whether or not Ravitch supports equal marriage – important, since that’s likely to come up for a vote.

Reader-detectives? Have you seen anything out there?