Paterson, Obama Together Tomorrow In Chicago
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Gov. David Paterson is joining Sen. Barack Obama at an economic roundtable with Democratic governors in Chicago.
At the mee
ting, Obama and the governors will discuss working together to reverse the effect of “eight years of the Bush economy on state budgets and looking beyond conventional Washington thinking to develop innovative solutions to the economic challenges the American people are facing every day,” according to the news release put out by the state Democratic Party.
Paterson supported Hillary Clinton during the presidential primary, but as had complimentary things to say about Obama. When Paterson took over for Gov. Spitzer, Obama called Paterson, the state’s first African-American governor, to wish him well.
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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. 
