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Whatever else you may think about the whole Spitzer thing, I think it's kind of neat that the new governor of New York is a blind guy; I know it doesn't really have any bearing on the job he'll do, which is likely to be just as terrible as any other politician's, but it makes me happy to think of little elementary school kids in New York learning that blind people can be governor when they do social studies. (There's probably a terrible pun here about "visibility".)

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Interestingly, Paterson is the second blind person to serve as governor of a U.S. state -- Bob C. Riley served as acting governor of Arkansas for 11 days in 1975.

He's also only the fourth black governor of a U.S. state, following Deval Patrick, Douglas Wilder of Virginia, and P. B. S. Pinchback, who served as governor of Louisiana for 35 days in 1872-3.

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