Barron ‘Disappointed’ With NY’s First Black Gov

Elizabeth Benjamin, New York Daily News

- Councilman Charles Barron teed off today on Gov. David Paterson’s proposed budget cuts, particularly to Medicaid and CUNY, which would disproportionately affect low-income New Yorkers, saying he “expected more understanding and sensitivity to the black community” from the state’s first black governor.

In his usual controversial way, Barron told me (off camera, but on the record) that he doesn’t believe Paterson will ever be elected to a full four-year term because white voters don’t like to “see an African American in an executive position.”

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