"If you are a state worker, it's clear that they're not happy with the governor right now.
MR. LEHRER -- Vice President Gore, is the governor right when he says that you're proposing the largest federal spending in years?
Asked how he would run as a Democrat without White House support, Mr. Paterson said, "I am running for governor right now.
"If you are a taxpayer that makes over $300,000 a year, you couldn't be very happy with the governor right now," he said.
Interestingly, Ms. Denish, who filled in frequently for Mr. Richardson while he ran for president in 2008, would be governor right now if Mr. Richardson had left New Mexico to become Mr. Obama's commerce secretary.
"Ideologues have their agendas," said Mr. Coughlin, who orchestrated the push to get the Medicaid expansion through the Legislature, "and the part of the party that's taking issue with the governor right now is all made up of ideologues".
At the conclusion of a short interview filled with playful banter, in which each man insisted on the superiority of his state's team, the governor of the Western state challenged the Eastern governor, right there on camera, to up the bet.
Jeans, is running a self-financed run for governor right now.
If it was 'Obamneycare' on 'Fox News Sunday,' why is it not 'Obamneycare' standing here with the governor right there?" King asked.
