We’ve just published a new profile of New York’s lieutenant governor, David A. Paterson.
The current governor, Eliot Spitzer, hasn’t said that he’s stepping down. But you never know.
Paterson is an unusual guy: not only the first African-American lieutenant governor in state history, but also nearly blind since infancy. His dad, Basil Paterson, is also an old pol in New York and national Democratic circles.