Today’s the big day: at a joint session of the state Assemby and the Senate in Albany, Lt. Governor David Paterson will be sworn in as the first black governor in American history and the first blind one.
Governor David Paterson.
It’s all happened so fast and everyone is still spinning form Spitzermania. But that’s old news now. Onward and upward.
"People are relieved that the government is being handed to someone so capable," said Albany reporter Elaine Rivera on WNYC this morning.
Coverage of the swearing in will begin at 1 p.m. on WNYC radio.
The name of the new governor of New York is spelled the same as that famed city in New Jersey, ancestral home of actor Lou Costello.
PATERSON.