near governor, but david patterson was basically forced out to after a corruption scandal of domestic allegations and top aide and this quid trying to make those allegations go away. patterson was found to have not committed witness tampering, but the aimed against the allegations remain they did plead guilty to harassing his former girlfriend. in the midst of that scandal in the investigation there, of governor patterson and not running for another turn and andrew cuomo steps up, he wins the democratic nomination to run for governor of new york in 2010, after that mess from the two previous democratic governors. in order to actually ascend to the top job though, cuomo had to go through the general election, right? he had to defeat the guy the republicans and nominated for governor that year, that candidate was named carl pallid dino. carl palladino, during his campaign was found to have had a frequent habit of circulating