Write in Governor David Paterson in November?

The only elected official in Albany with spine is Governor David Paterson.

The Gov spent two agonizing days last week exercising his line-item veto 7,000 times, while our state's senators and assemblymen fiddled in the dark, pushing the state budget problems on down the line to local communities by refusing to make the deep cuts the deficit demands. They then pronounced the job done and left town. Meanwhile, the attorney general, Democratic candidate for governor, remained steadfastly on the sidelines except for vaguely-worded generalities that could offend nobody.

Paterson did not do this for the fun of it. It could not have been any fun at all. He did it because no one else in state government is willing to make difficult decisions. They have chosen to let the "lame duck" governor carry the burden and take the blame.

Come November, maybe in addition to voting AGAINST every other Albany incumbent, I will WRITE IN David Paterson's name for governor. In 40-plus years of faithful voting, I have never written in a candidate's name. It may well be time to start.

Albany has become an abomination.