No Pataki at State of the State
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- January
- 7
  Continuing a recent New York tradition, the former governor will not be at Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s State of the State speech Wednesday.
  George Pataki, now a Manahttan lawyer, is out of the country and so won’t attend.
 In his own 12 years as governor, Republican Pataki never invited his predecessor, Demcorat Mario Cuomo, to the annual legislative-session curtain-raising speech, and seldom missed a chance to talk about what he called “the failed policies of the past,’’ meaning Cuomo’s policies. But he always was sure to invite – and then to recognize- Hugh Carey, who was governor from 1975 to 1982.
 Spitzer has been notably more gracious to his predecessor, even agreeing to name a new New York City park after Pataki.
 Of course, there was that moment during last year’s inaugural address, when Spitzer said the state had been like Rip Vanwinkle – i.e., asleep – during the previous 12 years – Pataki’s term of office. But then it would be hard to recognize Spitzer if he wasn’t throwing a jab now and then.Â
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Jay Gallagher has covered Albany for Gannett News Service since 1984 and has been Albany Bureau chief since 1989. He`s a native of the Boston area and likes to point out that in this millennium, the score is Red Sox 1 championship, the Yankees 0. 
Cara Matthews has been a statehouse correspondent in the Albany Bureau since August 2005. Prior to that, she covered Putnam County government and politics at The Journal News for nearly five years. Before that, she worked at newspapers in Connecticut and covered the state Legislature for one of them. 
