May 4, 2009

Racial firing cost NY Governor $300,000


New York governor David Paterson (upper photo) was involved in a racial firing while he was a New York Senate Democratic leader.

Paterson was accused of firing a white photographer in order to hire a black man, El-Wise Noisette (lower photo).

Gov. Paterson raised state taxes by $8 billion last month, just cost state taxpayers $300,000 more.

The state has secretly settled an embarrassing federal racial-discrimination lawsuit, The Post has learned. The suit accused Paterson, back when he was Senate minority leader in 2003, of firing a white Senate photographer in order to replace him with an African-American.

The lawsuit was to go to trial in federal court last week. Paterson, the state's first black governor, was to be a key witness. The case was a civil rights action that was settled out of court.

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