Will It Ever End
March 17th, 2008 at 10:31pm Matt Margolis
Looks like the state of New York can never catch a break. With the slimy Spitzer just barely out of office we learn this about the newly inaugurated governor of the Empire State.
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.
That’s not even the worst part of it:
Gov. Paterson denies using state or campaign money to pay for liaisons with another woman during a rocky patch in his marriage.
Records show that in September 2001, then-Sen. Paterson’s campaign spent $456.46 for two nights at what was then called the Quality Hotel at 215 W. 94th St.
One check was dated Sept. 10 — the day before the 9/11 attacks — and the other Sept. 24. Both are listed as “office” expenses.
In an earlier interview with the Daily News, Paterson mentioned that his campaign paid for a staffer to stay at the hotel around the time of 9/11.
He said he did not remember the exact dates, but he acknowledged putting up one staffer there the day of the attack and another the day before the Democratic primary, which was Sept. 25, 2001.
Who knows if there’s anything to those allegations or not, but regardless, this is hardly the kind of news New Yorkers want to hear after the Spitzer Scandal.
Entry Filed under: Corruption, Democrats
36 Comments
1. JS | March 17th, 2008 at 10:50 pm
Who said its ok to get mad at your wife and go have sex with another woman? If this is the norm in todays society, then certainly, its not Bush who created the hatred the world shows toward us, but the people who hold up immorality like it were good.
What is right becomes wrong, and wrong becomes right. Is that what they call “liberal”?
Funny.
2. Matt Margolis | March 17th, 2008 at 11:31 pm
Bush didn’t create the hatred the world shows towards us. The left did.
3. Diana Powe | March 17th, 2008 at 11:41 pm
It’s a good question. Will the obsessive attention to politician’s marriages ever end or will it be equally spread around? Barack and Michelle Obama? Both married one time to each other. Hillary and Bill Clinton? Both married one time to each other. John and Cindy McCain? Two marriages for him and one for her along with her addiction to painkillers and associated theft conviction for stealing painkillers from her non-profit employer. Does any of this have anything to do with their possible performance as President? I don’t think so.
4. Nietzsche-Is-Pietzsche | March 17th, 2008 at 11:43 pm
Matt-
Nice slogan but it hardly resembling anything truthful. Rather simplistic on your part I thought you’d do better than that.
5. Jeremiah | March 17th, 2008 at 11:54 pm
Sorry, NIP, You lose!
You left-tards and the ACLU are the real problem with America, and a serious threat to the continued existence of America.
Perhaps some day, people will wake up and realize this and not have to suffer the unnecessary consequences.
–Jeremiah–
6. Matt Margolis | March 18th, 2008 at 12:00 am
When I was younger, even in the Clinton days, people had a general acceptance that other countries didn’t like or hated America… for one reason or another… nothing has changed… except the left has chosen to blame Bush now. even though anti-Americanism was alive and well before Bush was even elected.
7. Almiranta | March 18th, 2008 at 12:47 am
Yes, Diana, you have lectured us often enough for us to understand that you find no sexual activity distasteful—-unless it involves conservatives, anyway—-and as long as any inconvenient byproduct, such as the creation of another human life, can be easily flushed away at will.
BTW, nice smear on the McCains, slipped into a thread about the governor of New York, no less. Getting ready for the election, are you? Sharpening those claws?
I’m intrigued by the stand taken by Lefties that it is better to have mulitple ongoing sexual liasons during a marriage while maintaining the pretense of a good marriage than to have one affair, marry the other person, and then remain faithful to that person.
Yes, folks, in case you haven’t heard—the Left tried to float the idea that Guiliani was worse than Clinton because at least “Clinton didn’t BREAK UP a marriage”. It was like chutzpah x 100, but they did say it with a straight face. And now Diana explains that the serial adulterer Clinton is somehow better than McCain because his wife chose political ambition over divorcing him for any one of his many many many transgression.
(We are ignoring the fact that John F’n Kerry not only broke up his marriage to marry a richer woman, but he had the first marriage annulled, thereby effectively making his wife a woman who had lived a lie for what was it, 17 years?, and his daughters illegitimate. Talk about “breaking up a marriage”—he not only broke it up, he denied it ever existed. But that was OK, because he was a Dem.)
You people are just in a death spiral of lunacy, aren’t you?
Tip: When the subject of marital fidelity comes up, you are much better off to just look off into the distance and wait till something else comes along, because there is absolutely no way you can possibly engage in a discussion on this topic without making grotesque fools of yourselves.
8. bagni | March 18th, 2008 at 12:57 am
mattzer
the lucy in the sky spacemates agree with you
spitzer is a dirtbag
paterson is one too
supporting the earthly proverb:
‘you are who you hang with’
so what does that say about us green goofballs?
ha
9. gaijin | March 18th, 2008 at 1:16 am
Matt,
Do you even own a passport? Did you travel abroad during the Clinton years? How much time do you spend traveling outside the country on a yearly basis? How many non-American friends do you have?
As someone who is well traveled, now as well as during the Clinton years, I can tell you that America has fallen greatly during the Bush administration. When I speak to non-Americans, one of the first things they will bring up is Bush and the Iraq war. Those are the reasons why America is seen in such a bad light in so many countries around the world.
Peace, Gaijin
10. kimberly4victory | March 18th, 2008 at 1:27 am
Mularky, Gaijin,
I, too, am well-traveled and I haven’t met ANY foreigners who say they “hate” America or anything like that. The fact is most of them love America. It’s too bad neorads didn’t feel the same.
Wondering how your conversation went with those “non-Americans”. I’m sure you had a great Bush bashing time!
Peace, Kimberly
11. kimberly4victory | March 18th, 2008 at 1:30 am
Almiranta: Spot on!
Diana missed the point entirely. It’s not enough that the new Gov admitted to having an affair, the question is who paid for it!
12. Christian Wright | March 18th, 2008 at 6:56 am
Before Bush, our government did not torture people to death. That is why the world now hates us.
“Muslim prisoners held in Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison were submerged in water-filled garbage cans with ice or put naked under cold showers in near-freezing rooms until they went into shock, Sgt. Javal Davis, who served with the 372nd Military Police Company there, has told a national magazine.
Davis, from the Roselle, N.J., area, said while stationed at the prison he also saw an incinerator with “bones in it” that he believed to be a crematorium and said some prisoners were starved prior to their interrogation.
Another soldier that had been stationed at Abu Ghraib, M.P. Sabrina Harman—who gained dubious fame for making a thumbs-up sign posing over the body of a prisoner she believed tortured to death—said the U.S. had imprisoned “women and children” on Tier 1B, including one child was as young as ten.
“Like a number of the other kids and of the women there, he was being held as a pawn in the military’s effort to capture or break his father,” write co-authors Philip Gourevitch and Errol Morris in the March 24th issue of The New Yorker magazine, which describes Abu Ghraib in a 14-page article titled “Exposure.””
www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/31874
13. Christian Wright | March 18th, 2008 at 7:03 am
Alyssa Peterson was one of the first female soldiers killed in Iraq. She was a translator who worked with with CIA interrogating Iraqi prisoners.
After two days on the job she filed a formal complaint accusing the US of torturing the prisoners. She was so emotionally damaged by what she witnessed, she killed herself.
She was, I think, the third woman to die in Iraq.
Torture is why the world hates America.
Bush = Torture
14. CuriousGeorge | March 18th, 2008 at 7:17 am
Those are the reasons why America is seen in such a bad light in so many countries around the world.
Just as we were “hated” during the Reagan years, gaygin, and I was overseas during all that “hatred.” Please…
15. Christian Wright | March 18th, 2008 at 7:29 am
I think I know why neocons are so evil.
Check out this video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5VFojDm1Fw&NR=1
16. JS | March 18th, 2008 at 8:23 am
The things that people do in thier lives do have meaning DP. You may want to play dolls, but the rest of the world live in reality.
If a person cannot remain faithful to their vows, and thier spouses, and thier families, what makes anyone think they have the maturity to make a commitment to public service? We have seen the effects of this liberal acceptance of sexual immorality, and it has racked our nation with scandal after scandal. We have raise thieves, liars and con men into our leadership positions expecting them to be the leaders of the free world..instead we have become bond slaves to debt.
17. Christian Wright | March 18th, 2008 at 8:44 am
JS:
To the best of my knowledge, Bush has always been faithful to his wife; yet he is the first and only president that openly supports torture.
Morality is more than just being faithful to ones spouse.
18. steveGA | March 18th, 2008 at 8:50 am
JS,
“If a person cannot remain faithful to their vows, and thier spouses, and thier families, what makes anyone think they have the maturity to make a commitment to public service?”
So I assume you will be voting for Barack or Hillary then? Barack has remained faithful to his wife and family, Hillary has remained faithful to her husband and family (despite Bill not doing the same). Only John McCain has gotten a divorce.
Looks like we’ve found another HillBama supporter!
19. Some Assembly Required | March 18th, 2008 at 8:51 am
“Bush didn’t create the hatred the world shows towards us. The left did.” - Matt
Matt, please tell me this is a joke right. I mean I’m expecting a big “Gotcha” or something any minute now. Come on man, the party that has not been in power for the last 8 years which have had little to no say in policy for 4 of them is the reason why the world hates the US. Do you honestly believe anything that you say?
20. Magnum Serpentine | March 18th, 2008 at 9:44 am
Until the Supreme Court Presidency in 2001, The hatred of the United States was limited to a few nations. When Acting President george came along, with in a few years, almost the entire world hated the United States.
21. Canadian Observer | March 18th, 2008 at 9:48 am
Look, the distrust and disgust the world (friend & foe) shows toward the U.S. today is real. While your country may have been warily viewed in the past, the anger at American policy was never, ever, felt to this degree during any other Administration.
As painful as it might be, y’all have to face the truth.
22. Michael | March 18th, 2008 at 11:04 am
Another discussion derailed by the leftist penchant to change the subject when they know they cannot defend one of their own’s behavior. You donkeys forgot one argument though. You do know this guy is legally blind, don’t you. You should argue the vile and evil right is picking on a handicap who obviously couldn’t “see” what he was doing. You clowns could at least give it a try…
23. Tractatus | March 18th, 2008 at 11:35 am
the Left tried to float the idea that Guiliani was worse than Clinton because at least “Clinton didn’t BREAK UP a marriage”. It was like chutzpah x 100, but they did say it with a straight face.
So Mike Huckabee is part of “the Left” now? I’m sure he’d be quite interested to find that out, what with his religious conservatism and all. But hey, he is spot on in his quote:
Keep trying, ‘Ranty. The law of averages says you’ve gotta come out on top sometime.
24. Diana Powe | March 18th, 2008 at 1:15 pm
Almiranta once agains flexes her astounding psychic powers and the seeming conservative obsession with sex and imagines things that I think. Impressive as always.
25. FmrMarine | March 18th, 2008 at 1:23 pm
>>>>>Until the Supreme Court Presidency in 2001, The hatred of the United States was limited to a few nations. When Acting President george came along, with in a few years, almost the entire world hated the United States.<<<<
Pure fantasy coupled with gross ignorance.
26. Canadian Observer | March 18th, 2008 at 4:49 pm
Pure fantasy coupled with gross ignorance.
25. FmrMarine | March 18th, 2008 at 1:23 pm
Something you are very familiar with, eh, FmrMarine. Fantasy and ignorance; chief characteristics of the Bush cheerleaders.
The number of blindfolds owned by you folks must be staggering.
27. js | March 18th, 2008 at 6:00 pm
What happened, did the dnc send ALL of thier halfwits to your blog Mark and Matt?
All of this amatuer spinning is a waste of time. Not one of these lame liberals have an ounce of understanding. I guess the party of the demoncrats are severly lacking in adults with common sense.
28. Rainy Days And Tuesdays &&hellip | March 18th, 2008 at 7:28 pm
[…] Will It Ever End Looks like the state of New York can never catch a break. With the slimy Spitzer just barely out of office we learn this about the newly inaugurated governor of the Empire State. The thunderous applause was still ringing in his ears when the state’s new governor, David Paterson, told the Daily News that he and […] Technorati Tags: New York Governor, Spitzer, Paterson […]
29. Pain | March 18th, 2008 at 8:09 pm
The good news is Patterson was able to save his marriage. We, Ourselves, applaud him and his wife for coming forward with such an intimate confession. This is a political shaming for the Democratic Party to some degree yet neither Spitzer nor Patterson are running for the White House.
John McCain is and the October Surprise is even now being compiled by investigators that are scouring the land for every woman he had sex with while he was still married to his first wife; both those who were in uniform and those out of uniform.
Will McCain admit his marital infidelity or will he have to be avalanched by the garbage of his past before the hot glow of light and the harsh scrutiny of cameras?
Drink up of all these overflowing cups while you can, personally We have never seen Howard Dean smile so much.
Qu’ul cuda praedex nihil!
30. Diane Tomlinson | March 18th, 2008 at 8:14 pm
Bush didn’t create the hatred the world shows towards us. The left did.
Margolis you are one twisted dude. Let me tell you something about societies. When the bulk of them desire something it gets done. Civil Rights, women’s suffrage they all got done because the Society at large wanted the change. And that change came from progressives. Even the end of institutionalized anti-Semitism was brought down in the 1960s by progressives.
You kids have a nice blog here and I hope you all make a few bucks and have some laughs but if you’re ever on CNN please don’t say anything that stupid where like your parents could hear it. Sheesh!
31. js | March 18th, 2008 at 9:44 pm
Meanwhile, they raise taxes so they can cover thier earmarks.
For some reason, being a liberal and living on our kids income doesnt sound so good.
32. Joe | March 18th, 2008 at 9:50 pm
Holy crap js!!! That is by far the stupidist thing I have read on this blog. And that is saying something!
“Meanwhile, they raise taxes so they can cover thier earmarks.
For some reason, being a liberal and living on our kids income doesnt sound so good.”
After blindly backing this current administration and the GOP congress that was there until 2006, you have that BALLS to say that liberals are trying to cover their earmarks and they live on our kids income????
Damn talk about backwards assed.
33. Kahn | March 19th, 2008 at 2:08 am
I guess someone thinks bagni’s posts are clever. He just comes across as doped up to me.
34. Kahn | March 19th, 2008 at 2:10 am
Joe - if you believe that, you better read up on the projected costs of all those programs both Hillary and Obama are talking about. Obama is talking about increasing our budget by 1/4. one freakin’ quarter. You think about that - really.
35. js | March 19th, 2008 at 9:52 am
I can honestly say you are the prime example of who children should strive not to be like Joe.
36. js | March 19th, 2008 at 9:53 am
And just when they thought it was ok to come out from behind the liberal front, look what hits the news!!
http://www.nypost.com/seven/03192008/news/regionalnews/paterson_gals_tape_shocker_102550.htm