{"id":761,"date":"2009-05-18T08:24:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-18T12:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/05\/18\/is-governor-paterson-getting-a-bum-rap\/"},"modified":"2009-05-18T08:24:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-18T12:24:00","slug":"is-governor-paterson-getting-a-bum-rap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/05\/18\/is-governor-paterson-getting-a-bum-rap\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Governor Paterson getting a bum rap?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our Albany correspondent Karen DeWitt reports this morning on Governor David Paterson&#8217;s persistently stagnant poll numbers. <\/p>\n<p>Stagnant doesn&#8217;t do his popularity justice.  People really dislike this governor.  Polls show that even African Americans &#8212; once his most loyal constituents &#8212; have soured on his leadership.<\/p>\n<p>So here&#8217;s my question:  How come?  What has Paterson done that New Yorkers don&#8217;t like?<\/p>\n<p>Yes, he&#8217;s raising taxes and cutting services.  The state is deep in debt. <\/p>\n<p>Yes, he&#8217;s laying off union workers and mothballing prisons.  Did I mention that the state is really, really deep in debt?<\/p>\n<p>Are we voters guilty of shooting the messenger?  Are we dising a courageous leader who&#8217;s making the hard but necessary choices?<\/p>\n<p>And if you think Paterson really is a bum, what would you have a new governor &#8212; Cuomo?  Giuliani? &#8212; do differently?<\/p>\n<p>Comments welcome&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Albany correspondent Karen DeWitt reports this morning on Governor David Paterson&#8217;s persistently stagnant poll [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}