Governor David Paterson: Is New York the coolest state or what ? He is the right person in the right place at the right time. Let's "hope" that he can offer Change. Hope. Vision. Now it's time for all elected officials to Do the Right Thing in service of the people of this great state with regard to the budget, economic development upstate, education, and other critical issues that the state faces.
Governor Paterson will establish his own policy and goals. Logically, hopefully, some of those would include some of former Governor Spitzer's intended reforms and environmental plans. But it is clearly time to move ahead in a spirit of -- if not bipartisanship--cooperation and mutual respect. The era of the politics of personal destruction in New York State at least has to end now. This is one of those moments which offers an enormous opportunity. Let's hope neither party, nor the people of this State, squander it.