Pataki/Donohue for New York

Running for Governor
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From Mayor of Peekskill, George went on to spend ten years in the New York State Assembly and Senate. The Albany that he found was not as he had envisioned it. "In New York an overwhelming majority of all state legislators are reelected, a fact which suggests that our government is not entirely open to new ideas and outside opinions. It is harder to lose an election to the New York legislature than it was to be removed from the old Soviet Politburo, and in my time I realized that once you were in, you could get by with little effort and initiative. For too many people, the job became a birthright." From his time in the Assembly and the State Senate, George Pataki knew that taking on Mario Cuomo was the only way to bring about the changes New York needed. In 1994, he asked the people of New York to give him a chance to make New York better by electing him their Governor. He promised New Yorkers a smaller, smarter government, one that would put government back into the hands of the people. On November 8, 1994, the citizens of New York put their faith in George Pataki, entrusting him to keep his word, and elected him their 57th Governor.

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