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The Continuing Fall of David Paterson

This one sure didn’t take long, Jacob Gershman, Sun [1], New York: 

Concern is growing in Albany over the prospect that, even as Governor Paterson races to get on top of the budget crisis, the disclosures of his private sexual affairs have damaged – perhaps irreparably – his capacity to execute the state’s highest office.

Dogged by suspicions that his campaign expenditures and his extramarital relationships were improperly entangled, Mr. Paterson heads into his second week on the job no longer the fresh face who symbolized a return to civility, but a weakened politician.

Maybe Eliot Spitzer was looking for a Lieutenant Governor who would not question Spitzer’s ethics?