From: Charlie Dorego
Subject: RE: Please print for Mr. Litwin
are you sure you want me to show him this? you can forget about money for Davdi
From: Richard Runes [mailto:rrunes@
Sent: Monday, October 13, 2008 9:25 AM
To: Leonard Litwin; Charlie Dorego
Subject: Please print for Mr. Litwin
TOP GOPER RIPS GOV'S 'BETRAYAL'
By FREDRIC U. DICKER
October 13, 2008 ~
SENATE Majority Leader Dean Skelos is privately describing Gov. Paterson as a double-crossing liar, saying the
governor has betrayed a personally delivered pledge not to seek the defeat of the GOP's narrow Senate majority
But aides to Paterson claim it was Skelos (R-Nassau) who went back on his promise to work with Paterson - especially
‘on the state's worsening fiscal situation - and, as a result, they say the governor now wants to see the Democrats take
control of the Senate for the first time since 1965.
Anew set of Democratic polls has convinced Paterson that his party is likely to win a narrow Senate majority, sources
said,
“The governor thought he could live with Skelos as the [Senate] leader, but he's now decided he'd rather have
[Democratic Majority Leader] Malcolm Smith, even with Smith's obvious limitations,” a source close to Paterson told The
Post.
“And it looks like that's what's going to happen.”
{An aide to Skelos responded, "We expected David to keep his word.
“He made the commitment to both Dean and [former Senate Majority Leader] Joe Bruno in terms of what he agreed he
would or wouldn't do about working against us.
“Frankly, he’s being very 'Spitzeresque’ in his manner.”
‘The Paterson-Skelos battle took a bizarre tum Friday, when the governor claimed he had picked Buffalo-based Delaware
North for the muttibillion-dollar contract to operate a video lottery casino at Aqueduct Racetrack.
But Paterson doesn't have the legal right to award the contract - it requires the approval of both Skelos and Assembly
‘Speaker Sheldon Silver (D-Manhattan) - and, as a result, the governor's move was seen as an effort to embarrass,
Republican Sen. Serphin Maltese, an endangered incumbent whose Queens district includes Aqueduct
CONFIDENTIAL. GLEN000025051Maltese has criticized the Delaware North plan as too narrow.
Meanwhile, Paterson has told friends that he finds Skelos - unlike the recently retired Bruno - almost impossible to deal
with,
“ think David initially thought he could work better with Dean than with Malcolm, but that's no longer the case,” said a
source close to Paterson
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