Bruno, Paterson Offer Compliments — To Each Other
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- April
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Gov. David Paterson and Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno were all hugs this morning at an event in Troy, where the Democratic governor and the Republican Senate leader announced a $10 million grant for an environmental research facility along the Hudson River.
“This governor gets it. He understands what partnering is all about,” Bruno said as he introduced Paterson. “The people of this state need your leadership and they are getting it. We all here are indebted to all the good things that you are doing.”
When Paterson arrived, he joked with Bruno that his motorcade stopped at one point on the way to the event, but said “We better start moving. He’s going to think we are staking him out”—a reference to the Troopergate scandal that engulfed his predecessor, Eliot Spitzer.
Paterson said that partnering with the opposing party shouldn’t be seen as a sign of “weakness.”
“It just shows the balance that is needed in government,” Paterson said. “There’s a sense that if people have an understanding of each other and they get along and they are of opposite parties this is a sign of weakness. It’s actually a sign of strength.”
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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. 
