PATERSON LYIN' KING OF STATE KNOWS KENNEDY LEAKER

[dkf]

The truth is that not only does Paterson know who the source of the leak was, but that Paterson is the only person in a position to have given the information to the leaker.

That's because all the disclosure documents that were handed over by Kennedy were given to Paterson's legal counsel's office, which is under a professional obligation of secrecy.

The counsel then passed whatever might have been damaging in the records on to Paterson.

The information on Kennedy leaked hours later to news organizations with the understanding the source was someone "close to the governor."

But just in case anyone thinks he deserves the benefit of the doubt, he doesn't.

That's because Paterson's latest denials are merely the latest installment in a long series of lies told by the governor that many in government have started to call pathological.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/01272009/news/columnists/paterson_lyin_king_of_state_152202.htm

[Thrill]

1. Hello Governor Andrew Cuomo

[MinM]

7. gmta

:fistbump:

[FLAprogressive]

2. Paterson is a deceitful little prick.

[xchrom]

3. recommend

[madinmaryland]

4. The NY Post??

:wtf:

Now there's a reliable source.

[RFKJrNews]

6. Bottom line: Paterson alone controlled access to Kennedy's documents

He chose to leak whatever may have been in them to his PR flack.

He chose to hire FORMER BUSH WHITE HOUSE STAFFER Judy Smith as his PR flack.(Someone please `essplain that to me?)

He chose to authorize said PR flack to kneecap Caroline AFTER she had already quietly withdrawn from the race.

Bad series of choices there...

Great post. Kicked and recommended, thanks for posting!

[sohndrsmith]

5. how about the Village Voice? That seem more reputable, maybe?

Maybe not. I haven't read it regularly since I stopped living off Union Square... and that was years ago.

But I'm hesitant to post the link (since I think I've posted it to death already) but once more for good measure. This is the LAST time, however... :

(slightly off topic, but it doesn't bode well for what I thought was Paterson's integrity, especially when you consider how tainted the Blago appointment was considered - and he failed to get the "payoff"...

Decide for yourself. Stinks of hypocrisy if he's not called out on this - at least challenged about it... $50K from Gillebrands' biggest donor just days after Kennedy announces her interest in the seat?:

Gillibrand's ..."former law firm, Boies, Schiller & Flexner, has been the largest single donor to her House campaigns, and David Boies, the senior partner at the firm, contributed $25,000 to Paterson's campaign committee on December 23, 2008, while the governor was considering Gillibrand's candidacy.

Boies' son Chris, also a partner in the firm, contributed another $25,000 on the same day. "
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/archives/2009/01/the_new_frontru.php

And NYS election contributions if the VV isn't legit enough:
http://www.elections.state.ny.us:8080/reports/rwservlet?cmdkey=efs_sch_report+p_filer_id=A37719+p_e_year=2009+p_freport_id=J+p_transaction_code=A

[RFKJrNews]

8. Very interesting

"Gillibrand's ..."former law firm, Boies, Schiller & Flexner, has been the largest single donor to her House campaigns, and David Boies, the senior partner at the firm, contributed $25,000 to Paterson's campaign committee on December 23, 2008, while the governor was considering Gillibrand's candidacy. "

If true, wouldn't that make Paterson guilty of exactly the same thing Blago is being accused of doing right now?

[sohndrsmith]

12. that's what I see... but apparently, as we've learned with the Blago fiasco,

it's not (technically) illegal unless it's somehow directly related...

I don't see any difference, which is why I am so angry about it and why I've annoyingly posted it everywhere possible (thread topic permitting).

Based on the lack of replies... no one seems interested, which sort of floors me. If nothing else, it would be nice if he could explain the situation... won't happen unless someone with a wider audience draws attention to it. Looks like that isn't going to happen.

But when I think about the 'taint' fussed over for the Illinois pay-to-play attempt (Blago didn't succeed, which seems to me a markedly significant difference, unless proven otherwise), the hypocrisy of the silence on this really frosts me.

I was a supporter of Paterson, too, defending him until I learned about these things... now I would love to know how this is legitimate. If it is, fine. But the timing really stinks and even if legal, doesn't seem ethical from my point of view.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

11. Sounds like Blago Redux

[IsItJustMe]

9. Paterson is beginning to sound like a real sleeze bucket. If any of this is even remotely true, .

he does not need to be in there any longer and I hope the voters of NY elects a good governor on the next go around.

[RFKJrNews]

10. Me too

Caroline Kennedy in 2010!:)

Revenge can be sweet, ya know.

[sohndrsmith]

14. That would be fabulous. I can't help but think that she was

strong-armed with some "info" (worse than the nanny-tax issue, which leaked the day Geitner was approved by the Senate after having a similar issue... and I'm not even sure if that is a legitimate rumor, either.). Someone confronted Kennedy with some "oppositional research" which, while partially or slightly true on some level, was likely implied to be misconstrued to do the most damaging effect possible. Likely, targeting her kids. She wouldn't risk that sort of circus at the expense of her kids.

Call me a tin foil hat nut (or whatever) but nothing else makes sense. If Kennedy knew she was not the pick, there is nothing in character or history that would predict her making a confused early withdrawal - which by default would damage her reputation. She would just quietly concede.

The fact that Paterson seemed flustered and caught off balance lends weight to this, too. I think Kennedy was his pick and that didn't go over too well with someone who expected a different result....

What else really makes sense? I'm all ears...

[burythehatchet]

13. Patterson is the financial industry's gift to New York.

they colluded with the white house to take down Spitzer when Spitzer was getting close exposing their fraud.

[glinda]

15. All of this will come back and bite them in the butt