Score one for Paterson! The state's highest court just sided with him on his appointment of Richard Ravitch as Lieutenant Govenor. Read the Times piece for a full brief on the 4-3 decision, considered a "stunning reversal" - all the lower courts had held against Paterson.





Good!
Wow!
Let Fred Dicker at the Post stick this one in his pipe and smoke it.
He should enjoy it while he can. They'll both be history in a little over a year. Meanwhile, Paterson won't get a single thing done between now and then. If he can't get anything done now, he sure can't do it while he's campaigning as well.
With apologies to Horace McCoy, they shoot lame ducks, don't they?