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February 25, 2010

Dem NY Governor Is Kind of a Scumbag

Posted by Gregory of Yardale at February 25, 2010 6:35 PM

New York Governor David Paterson doesn't seem like a very nice guy. He has this aide, David Johnson, who has been accused of beating up his girlfriends. When one of Johnson's victims tried to get a restraining order against him, Paterson apparently sent some State Troopers around to give her a talking to. Of course, the Governor and the State Police deny any wrongdoing. But something must be afoot because another Top Aide just resigned over the scandal.

This is as bad as the Democrat Governor of Ohio who kept a convicted child molester on his staff even after learning of his conviction, and even took him to Italy on vacation. (While a congressman, Strickland was one of only 13 {including Barney Frank of corse} who did not vote to condemn a study by the American Psychological Association that claimed it was okay for adults to have sex with kids.)

IMHO, what these two guys did is quite a bit worse than a certain Republican Governor who had a consensual extra-marital affair with an adult female (and who was universally rebuked by his party and the Conservative blogosphere.) But nothing will happen to either of these guys because, after all, they're Democrats. If Eliot Spitzer had just waited things out, he would have been fine... like Bill Clinton (rapist) or the Democrat Mayor of Portland (chickenhawk).