Poor George! (Week 2)

[brooklynite]

WORST-EVER POLL HAS PATAKI LOOKING ROCKY

February 11, 2005 -- ALBANY — New York voters are turning an enormous thumbs-down on Gov. Pataki, giving him his lowest job-performance rating ever and saying he doesn't deserve re-election next year, according to a poll released yesterday.

The Quinnipiac University survey also found that state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, the only announced Democratic candidate for governor, would easily defeat Pataki, 54 to 30 percent, if the election were held today.

The poll found Pataki trailing Spitzer in all parts of the state and doing as poorly against the popular attorney general in traditionally Republican upstate areas.

http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/39696.htm


GOP DONORS PAID FOR A SECOND LIBBY PATAKI AIDE

ALBANY, N.Y. -- State Republican Party funds were tapped to pay for two personal assistants to Gov. George Pataki's wife Libby since the New York Republican took office in 1995, officials said Thursday.

Officials at the Pataki-controlled Republican State Committee had confirmed last week that Michelle Stubbs has been on the party payroll since 1999 and assigned to Libby Pataki. On Thursday, in response to inquiries from The Associated Press, officials confirmed that a second woman, Janine Robinson, had been on the state GOP payroll from either late 1995 or early 1996 until Stubbs took over the job in August 1999.

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--libbypataki-aide0210feb10,0,7896612.story?coll=ny-region-apnewyork

[lovedems]

1. If you lay down with the dogs, you are going to get fleas

(Is that how the saying goes?)

I wonder if he regrets stumping for Bush now?

[aden_nak]

2. Good. I never could stand him. He was D'amato's boy.

He won because the NYC populaton was apathetic at the time, and he essentially told the rest of the state, "Screw New York City!" As someone who lived in upstate New York for many years. . . it was a senatment that a lot of people agreed with for no discernable reason.

[paineinthearse]

3. Wouldn't "Poor George" be a great title for a TV sitcom?

I miss "That's my bush"....

[madinmaryland]

4. Where has Al"Pot-hole" D'amato gone?

Guess without Al, Georgie is having a hard time of it.:evilgrin: