Sticks and stones, Larry Schwartz!

CSEA President Danny Donohue issued a statement just now in response to comments yesterday by Schwartz, Gov. David Paterson’s chief of staff, calling on the outspoken union leader to basically grow up and quit with the name calling.

Donohue clearly has no intention of doing so, and, in fact, took Schwartz’s criticism as an opportunity to ratchet up his anti-Paterson rhetoric, saying:

“Who cares what Larry Schwartz thinks? My only regret is that the Paterson Administration may still be in office for another seven months…that’s seven more months of incompetence and chaos!”

Note the use by Donohue of the word “may” – might he know something we don’t about the ethics investigations former Chief Judge Judith Kaye is conducting of Paterson on behalf of AG Andrew Cuomo?

Donohue has used some colorful language during the public employee unions’ furlough fight with Paterson, memorably saying during a protest outside the Capitol Monday that it’s an “insult to a rodent” to compare the governor to a rat.

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