ALBANY — Gov. Paterson kicks off his long-shot 2010 election campaign today with a two-commercial, $500,000 television blitz in which he challenges those saying he shouldn’t run.
“Some say I shouldn’t be running for governor,” Paterson says in one commercial before he proceeds to outline what he says are his accomplishments since Eliot Spitzer resigned amid a hooker scandal in March 2008.
A second ad outlines Paterson’s biography and concludes, “Gov. Paterson. The people first.”
More than a dozen public-opinion polls have shown Paterson with the lowest job-approval ratings ever recorded for a New York governor, and President Obama has signaled he wants him out of the race.
They also show Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, who has told friends he is running, leading him in a Democratic primary matchup.