State Sen. David Paterson's legislative record could be fertile ground for opponents of the Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor, and his running mate, Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, according to this piece in The Politicker:

Eliot Spitzer's running mate, State Senator David Paterson, was the prime, and sole, sponsor of legislation that would have sharply cut child-support payments, primarily from divorced men to their ex-wives.

Notes Ben Smith:

Paterson's two-decade record in the New York State Senate remains largely unexamined, but a scan of the bills he has sponsored suggests that it will offer large targets to Mr. Spitzer's Republican opponents.

Paterson, as a Democrat in the minority of the state Senate, has essentially had the luxury of proposing many pieces of legislation that received little or no scrutiny because they had no chance of becoming law. The proposals could satisfy his supporters, without boomeranging back and hurting him politically - until now, that is.

Here's a list of Paterson's pending proposals. (PDF).