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With His Party in Conflict, [NY Gov] Pataki Faces Contentious Final Year
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| Last Edited | ArmyDem Dec 04, 2005 10:04pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - New York Times |
| News Date | Tuesday, December 6, 2005 04:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | By MICHAEL COOPER
Published: December 5, 2005
ALBANY, Dec. 2 - As Gov. George E. Pataki prepares to enter his 12th and final year in office in New York, he is finding out the perils of being a lame duck, with his power under attack as never before - even from within his own party.
The Republican Party in New York is at war with itself, with some factions embracing a governor's race by Mr. Pataki's longtime nemesis, Tom Golisano, and others trying to force Mr. Pataki's pick for the United States Senate, Jeanine F. Pirro, out of the race. In New York City, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, a Republican, is trying to seize more control of the rebuilding of the World Trade Center site, one of Mr. Pataki's signature projects. And Republicans in the State Senate blocked several of his appointments here this week.
Mr. Pataki is about to begin his final legislative session next month after a summer and fall that were punctuated by many out-of-state trips, from Iowa and New Hampshire to China and Finland. Back at the fractious State Capitol, where governors rule through a combination of rewards and retribution, his announcement in July that he would not seek a fourth term was considered by some as an act of unilateral disarmament, and an opportunity.
For several years, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, a Democrat, and Senate Majority Leader Joseph L. Bruno, a Republican, have bucked Mr. Pataki on everything from budgets to new stadiums to new laws, and some lawmakers and strategists in both parties are already writing off the governor.
"I think this year you're going to see a Silver-Bruno alliance running the government," said a Democratic assemblyman who was granted anonymity because he felt that publicly questioning the governor's power could jeopardize his chances of getting legislation enacted. |
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