“We move forward. Today is Monday. There is work to be done,” Paterson said. “There was an oath to be taken. There’s trust that needs to be restored. There are issues that need to be addressed.” New York Governor David Paterson’s first address to Assembly

Timing is everything.

Just hours after assuming the post of Governor of New York, Democrat David Paterson admitted to the New York Daily Post that he had an affair with a woman for “2 or 3 years” and that his liasons occurred at the West Side Days Inn in Manhattan.

We’re still scratching our heads over this one, how could Paterson not remember how long the affair lasted?

That’s not all. Paterson’s wife also admitted to having an affair during a “rough patch in their marriage”.

Paterson told the New York Daily News that not only did he meet up with his paramour at the Days Inn but that his staff, he was a state senator up in Albany at the time, also stayed at the same hotel when visiting the city. When the Daily News asked Paterson if he had stayed with anyone else at the Days Inn since the end of his “affair” in 2001 he replied that he took his wife there.

“From time to time I used to take Michelle to that hotel.”

According to the Daily News when a marriage counselor recommended to the couple to “introduce new and exciting things into their marriage” Paterson said they chose the Days Inn because not only were they “trying to rekindle the romance in their marriage” but that the hotel was convenient, merely “four subway stops” from Paterson’s Harlem office.

Paterson denied using government funds to pay for his hotel stays but the Daily News found this intriguing piece of a puzzle:

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.

We wondered why a staff member’s stay at a hotel would be referred to as “office expenses” on the then state Senator’s checks to the former Quality Hotel now called the West Side Days Inn.

The Paterson’s revelations came after persistent rumors swirled around the couple after Lt. Governor Paterson was slated to take over the Governor’s slot when Eliot Spitzer resigned last week after getting caught in a high price call girl sting.

Paterson chose to reveal his past indiscretions moments after he took the oath of Governor, not during the previous week. New York Magazine had this reaction:

We’re just going to say it: Our new governor rocks the house. Only moments after he shouted down the halls of the capital: “I am David Paterson and I am the governor of New York State!” he admitted to the Daily News that he had an affair for several years of his marriage.

Like us NY Mag had this reaction to Paterson’s strange relationship to the Days Inn:

But you know the best part? Both Paterson’s affair and his later reconciliation with his wife took place at a Days Inn in Manhattan. And we thought nothing could top the Mayflower Hotel and T.G.I. Friday’s! This is amazing. We’re turning into France.

The Paterson’s blamed their past indiscretions on a “rough patch” in their marriage, that both “sought comfort” elsewhere. They said they turned to counseling to keep their marriage and family together.

“Turning to another for comfort” where have we heard this before?

We wrote a piece on Spitzer’s demise, where he admitted to paying $4300 for a two hour high priced call girl cruise and Dr. Laura.

Dr. Laura, the radio talk show host, spoke about the Spitzers on the Today Show, and blamed Spitzer’s behavior on his wife, Silda. In Spitzer: Dr. Laura Blames The Wife, Dr. Laura, like the Patersons, blamed the cheating, not on the cheater, but on the spouse.

Dr. Laura: “When the wife does not focus in on the needs and the feelings, sexually, personally, to make him feel like a man, to make him feel like a success, to make him feel like her hero, he’s very susceptible to the charm of some other woman making him feel what he needs.”

We wondered why Dr. Laura would issue such a blanket statement on the cause of adultery until we did a little research on the radio talk show host. It turns out that Dr. Laura is no stranger to infidelity and adultery herself.

Dr. Laura’s Unofficial Bio

Schlessinger married a dentist when she was 25, and had at least two extramarital affairs before they were divorced. Her first radio appearance was in 1974, as a caller on Bill Ballance’s show in Los Angeles. She became a regular caller, and later a guest on Ballance’s show, as he became her mentor in radio, and her first known extramarital affair.

Dr. Laura met her current husband when he was a married man, a father of three small children.

While still married to that dentist (and still ostensibly a marriage therapist), Schlessinger met and began another extramarital affair with Lewis G. Bishop, a professor of neuro-physiology and married father of three. They lived together for nine years after divorcing their spouses, and have been married since 1985.

So we can see how it worked for Dr. Laura to blame the wife of the married man she slept with then married. Claiming it’s the wife’s failure to comfort the husband, make him “feel like a hero”, feed him “sexually” and “personally” then this is, according to Dr. Laura, the equivalent to a “Get Out Feeling Quilty” Chance Card issued to the cheaters. In effect Dr. Laura absolved herself of all guilt when she assigned all the blame onto the wife of the spouse, she, Dr. Laura was involved with.

Now we see the Paterson’s echoing the same mantra, we had a “rough” patch, we had to turn to others in order to seek “comfort” outside the marriage.

No one knows what happens in other’s marriages, the public persona can be very different than the one at home. It’s not up to us to judge the Paterson’s in the matter of their marriage, what we find interesting is that David Paterson chose to reveal his indiscretions just “hours” after he was sworn in as Governor, a sort of post-climatic admission, where timing was essential. What if Paterson had admitted an affair of “2 or 3 years” last week after Spitzer stepped down and before Paterson was sworn in?

Now New York is left to deal with the fact that in a week’s time two of their governors, both Democrats, have admitted to cheating, adultery, and prostitution. One Governor stepped down, while another had just stepped in.

Paterson received two minute ovation after his inaugural speech yesterday in Albany hours before the Daily News revealed the Paterson’s indiscretions and also sat on the story until after Paterson was sworn in:

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.

It still remains to be seen what kind of reaction the Paterson revelations will elicit from New Yorkers.

At least for Paterson he was able to keep this under wraps until after he was sworn in, even for only a “matter of hours”. The deed was done, Spitzer is gone, now New York has time to digest their newest governor.

By LBG

Source – New York Daily Post
Source - Fox News

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