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Use of power or stretching the rules?

July 31, 2009 7:40 AM By DAN JANISON dan.janison@newsday.com

Quick ReadGov's appointment of Ravitch under fire.

Richard Ravitch / AP File Photo / December

Richard Ravitch / AP File Photo / December 4, 2008

Dan Janison

Melville. N.Y. Tuesday January 26, 2010. Daniel Janison, Dan Janison

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Nothing prompts a huge constitutional dispute like an aggressive, adventurous, or legally sketchy use of power by an elected executive. Take Gov. David A. Paterson’s dubious move to appoint Richard Ravitch as the state’s lieutenant governor.

This act goes in the same file as Gov. Eliot Spitzer trying to steamroll legislators. Or Mayor Michael Bloomberg changing the legality of...

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