Democrat Governor Of New York Pays $300,000 To Settle Discrimination Suit

If Governor Rick Perry of Texas had canned a black photographer so that he could hire a white one, and then subsequently had to pay $300,000 to settle a discrimination lawsuit we’d have heard no end of it. But the Governor of New York? A liberal and a black man? Canning a white photographer to hire a black one?
That’s not news. Because we all know it’s not racist to fire white people in favor of black people. That’s affirmative action. Plus, liberals and black people can’t be racist. Especially when they’re both.

ALBANY — Gov. Paterson, who 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 had been scheduled to go to trial in federal court Monday in Syracuse, with Paterson, the state’s first black governor, as a key witness. The case was settled earlier in the week, although a few glitches delayed the final deal until yesterday, legislative sources said.
The settlement ends a civil-rights action first filed in 2005 by Joseph Maioriello, 56, of Schenectady, a 26-year Senate employee who originally sought $1.5 million.

Move along. Nothing to see here.