Justice building named for political hack

Gov. Paterson today renamed the Justice Building on Empire State Plaza after former attorney general and current politically connected Manhattan lawyer Robert Abrams. I missed the announcement of this in a June 1 press release, in which the current attorney general, Andrew Cuomo, apparently trying to compete with the governor in cluelessness, is quoted as saying: "I can think of no one more deserving of this high honor." Maybe if they looked beyond their fellow lawyers and politicians who have run the state into the ground, more worthy honorees might come to mind.