New York Gov. David Paterson took office one year ago with an emphatic introduction and was immediately hailed as a healer — practically a savior — who would erase the memory of Eliot Spitzer's shocking resignation amid a prostitution scandal. But after starting out by dazzling ...

Governor David Paterson this afternoon expressed openness to what he called the "fascinating" idea of his former chief of staff Charles O'Byrne, who resigned last year in a tax scandal, returning to his administration. Asked by reporters following an event at the Harvard Club this afternoon what he thought about a NY Post editorial today calling for O'Byrne ...

David Paterson knows things are bad. On the afternoon of Feb. 19—the day the New York Post published a remarkable editorial urging the governor to bring back Charles O'Byrne, the senior aide that the paper had helped push out after a tax scandal—Paterson was telling reporters that he found the prospect of O'Byrne's return "fascinating ...

Senator Robert Menendez, who now heads the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, has reached out to Caroline Kennedy to gauge her interest in filling the empty seat Hillary Clinton will leave when she joins the Obama administration as secretary of state, according to one Democrat familiar with the negotiations. According to the source, Menendez and Kennedy (who is traveling) have yet ...