Where in the world is Gov. Paterson?
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- May
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 Where in the world is Gov. Paterson?
Today is the fourth day in a row with the Legislature in town that the governor hasn’t been here. Last week he was in New York City all three days the Legislature was at the Capitol, and todays he’s in the Finger Lakes and Batavia with Sen. Charles Schumer.
His absence is giving rise to speculation that he doesn’t intend to push an aggressive agenda for the rest of the legislative session.
“It’s hard to drive the Albany agenda without being in Albany,’’ said Blair Horner of the New York Public Interest Research Group. “That’s why the Executive Mansion is in Albany.’‘
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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. 
