Governor Patterson is not well liked by the media in NY. How else do you explain many newspapers running front page articles based on rumors that a scandal was about to break?

There was no earth shattering news to report about Governor Patterson. What the media did was set the groundwork with voters about changing their minds if they were considering voting for him.

Remember that Governor Patterson was not elected. He won the seat when the former Governor Eliot Spitzer had to step down for a prostitution scandal. There are many powerbrokers in New York who have been rooting for former NY Governor Mario Cuomo's son to run for the governorship. There are others that thought Governor Patterson simply did not have enough appeal to win over New Yorkers.

Governor Patterson should have known that he was a marked man and there are always people watching his every move. After all, there are only two African Americans that have been elected Governor in the history of the Unites States.

Governor Patterson played right into the hands of his opponents supporters. Less than one week after announcing that he planned to run for a full four year term, he had to announce that he was abandoning his campaign.

This announcement came shortly after a New York Times report, which said the governor and a member of his security detail had contacted a woman pressing an abuse charge against a top Paterson aide.

The aide David Johnson who is seen in the picture above with Gov. Patterson had his share of critics. He is from Harlem and it has been reported that he overcame some drug related issues of his younger days to amass a good deal of political power working for the governor. It has been reported that some people resented having to go through Mr. Johnson to reach the governor.

Can anyone figure out why a sitting governor who is gearing up for a reelection campaign would be involved in contacting the wife of an aide who happens to be an alleged victim of domestic abuse about the incident? When people are looking for your missteps, you simply have to have all of your ducks lined up straight.

This is an unwritten rule in politics, especially if you are a black or Latino politician. Hopefully Governor Patterson's political suicide will keep another Brother Connected from making the same mistake in the future.