Rocky Horror - Syracuse Post Standard Editorial

Once, David Paterson was so outraged about the state's harsh Rockefeller drug laws that he was willing to go to jail to protest their unfairness.

Paterson wasn't a college student or a community activist. He was a Democratic New York state senator who, with other like-minded protesters, was arrested for blocking the entrance of Gov. George Pataki's Manhattan office in 2002.

Last week, there was a glimmer of the old Paterson, who now has Pataki's old job. .....

...Paterson doesn't have to get arrested anymore to influence drug policy in New York. He can use his office to prod lawmakers into fixing the most unsuccessful criminal justice strategy in the state.