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NY Governor Paterson And His Wife Both Admit To Having Affairs
From the NY Daily News:
The thunderous applause was still ringing in his ears when the state’s new governor, David Paterson, told the Daily News that he and his wife had extramarital affairs.
In a stunning revelation, both Paterson, 53, and his wife, Michelle, 46, acknowledged in a joint interview they each had intimate relationships with others during a rocky period in their marriage several years ago.
In the course of several interviews in the past few days, Paterson said he maintained a relationship for two or three years with “a woman other than my wife,” beginning in 1999.
As part of that relationship, Paterson said, he and the other woman sometimes stayed at an upper West Side hotel — the Days Inn at Broadway and W. 94th St.
He said members of his Albany legislative staff often used the same hotel when they visit the city.
“This was a marriage that appeared to be going sour at one point,” Paterson conceded in his first interview Saturday. “But I went to counseling and we decided we wanted to make it work. Michelle is well aware of what went on.”
In a second interview with Paterson and his wife Monday, only hours after he was sworn in to replace scandal-scarred Eliot Spitzer, Michelle Paterson confirmed her husband’s account.
“Like most marriages, you go through certain difficult periods,” Michelle Paterson said. “What’s important is for your kids to see you worked them out.”
What Gov. Paterson is admitting to is far different than what Spitzer did. Many politicians have affairs and still come out with their political reputation intact. Unlike Spitzer, Paterson didn’t build a career on being a self-righteous crime fighter who could do no wrong.
Paterson didn’t hold press conferences to gloat about bringing down prostitution rings while secretly enjoying the services of prostitution rings.
Paterson seems like a pretty good guy, and it’s hard not to admire someone who has been without eyesight his entire life yet managed to accomplish so much.
I think you also have to give the man credit for being a blind womanizer. If a blind man can get that many women it should give hope to all men.
-Chris Jones
Paterson Sworn In As Governor Of New York
Lt. Gov. David A. Paterson was sworn in to New York’s highest office on Monday, pledging civility and unity in government to an ecstatic and very much relieved gathering of state lawmakers and officials.
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