Dick Brennan is Fox 5's Emmy Winning political reporter. Brennan recently covered his third presidential race culminating in the historic inauguration of Barack Obama.
David Paterson's election kickoff was held at Hofstra University on Long Island, and if you just landed in this town you might have been impressed. Paterson was in fighting mode, and his strategy certainly seemed shrewd: Play the outsider, attack the lobbyists, the media, act like the underdog. The governor, as usual, had rehearsed his lines well, and delivered them crisply. He also interspersed his trademark humor, and did manage to fire up the audience. A newcomer to New York gubernatorial politics might say, “Hey, this guy is good.”