If the prostitution scandal forces New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer to resign, he’ll be replaced Lt. Gov. David Paterson, a supporter of school choice, points out Mickey Kaus.
In a 2006 New York Observer profile, Paterson is described as “nuanced.”
A prominent advocate of publicly funded vouchers for private schools, Clint Bolick, has given Mr. Paterson money and describes him as a “very good friend of the school-choice movement,†though Mr. Paterson says he favors the principle of choice, not the tactics of the conservative arm of the movement.
Paterson is legally blind. After city schools refused to mainstream him, his parents moved from Harlem to Long Island to find a school that would let their son attend class with sighted students.
You don’t suppose the Observer was deliberately trying to damn him with faint praise, do you? And I wonder who Paterson means when he refers to “the conservative arm of the [school choice] movement.”
And Paterson is a Republican, so he is an Uncle Tom by default.
Paterson is a Democrat.