Lieutenant Governor
Donohue was sworn in as lieutenant governor on January 1, 1999, replacing former Lt. Gov. Betsy McCaughey Ross. She was not known to be a powerful lieutenant governor or to enjoy a close relationship with Pataki. She has been loyal to Pataki and never publicly opposed him, unlike her predecessor.
In 2005 it was reported that she was spending less time in Albany, because of her dissatisfaction with Pataki and her hope that he would leave office early and make her governor. Donohue denied these rumors.
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“It is better to have the power of self-protection than to depend on any man, whether he be the Governor in his chair of State, or the hunted outlaw wandering through the night, hungry and cold and with murder in his heart.”
—Lillie Devereux Blake (1835–1913)