Paterson Spending $626,000 on New Ads

[ccharles000]

New York Gov. David A. Paterson is going for broke -- literally -- to bolster his floundering re-election hopes. On Friday he launched a pair of television spots Friday that will cost his campaign $626,000 to air for the next week, according to advertising data obtained by CQ Politics.

The two ads, which the campaign hopes will jolt his approval ratings out of their year-long slump, are airing in the Albany, Buffalo, New York City, Rochester and Syracuse media markets.

Both ads take a contrite tone while seeking to drive home the message that Paterson is fighting for the people of New York rather than special interests or his own political career. In the first, Paterson acknowledges that some people think he "shouldn't be running for governor," before listing a series of actions he's taken that may not be politically strategic but helped the state cope with its budget crisis. In the second, he says he has learned from his mistakes.

Paterson has insisted all along that he is running in 2010, despite polls that show a majority of New York Democrats would prefer state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo as their nominee and efforts by party officials in New York and Washington to push him out. He has hired campaign staff and is mounting a fundraising push in the final months of the year. He lagged Cuomo in fundraising, with $5 million in cash on hand to $10 million for Cuomo through the first half of the year.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/eyeon2010/2009/11/paterson-spending-more-than-ha.html

[Kdillard]

1. He will still lose. He has no major accomplishment to speak of as far as I know

and will continue to have low approval until he actually does something and stops getting bad publicity.

[tilsammans]

2. Bad timing for Paterson to be doing this now, IMO

Don't we have campaign fatigue after many months of commercials? :puke:

I'm not saying it's necessarily a bad thing for him to be running ads -- but now is not the time. Couldn't it wait? :shrug:

[Imajika]

3. If Paterson is our candidate...

..the Republicans will win the governorship of New York.

Paterson is politically a dead man walking, as much or more unpopular than Corzine. For the good of the party, he really needs to bow out of the 2010 contest. If he won't, we lose a state to the GOP.

[beac]

4. I hear from relatives in NY that the low esteem in which Patterson is held is

jeopardizing Gillibrand's reelection prospects (since he appointed her.) So, Patterson could cost us the Governor's mansion AND a Senate seat. :mad: