NY governor names Democratic fixer as lieutenant governor to end state Senate standoff

ALBANY, N.Y. — New York Gov. David Paterson shocked Albany and risked a constitutional fight Wednesday by picking a crisis manager with Democratic credentials dating to the 1960s to fill the vacant lieutenant governor’s post and end a monthlong state Senate standoff.

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