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The gift that just keeps on giving, just like Paterson keeps giving it to us. This is out of control for one simple reason and no other. Paterson opened up the doors to his and his wife’s infidelities and kept the inconvenient truth from all of us.

It’s one thing to admit to these affairs, it’s another thing to keep covering things up, to pay for these things with campaign cash and another altogether to not even reveal to the other woman that you are going public with information that will damage their lives, jobs and relationships.

I am personally sick and dam tired of our immoral, deceiving, manipulating, conniving, pandering, corrupt leadership in this state and the continued abuse of the peoples trust. As much as I want to stop reporting this crap I find that I can’t and the reason why is because some how, some way we have got to get our government and our corrupt leaders either out of office or under control until younger more responsible people step up to take the reigns back.

If that doesn’t happen we will surely sink and fall into the abyss and we are well on our way.

Paterson pays back campaign for hotel tryst, but other bills raise eyebrows

Gov. Paterson says he’s reimbursed his campaign for two hotel stays he can’t explain while his aides’ review found several cases where he used campaign money to pay for men’s suits, furniture and bar tabs.

The reimbursements come after Paterson admitted to the Daily News that he may have used his campaign credit card to pay for a hotel visit with one of his lovers.

At the same time, Paterson’s aides accused reporters of sexism for raising questions about campaign payments to women.

“In some cases the inquiries have bordered on sexist,” said Errol Cockfield, Paterson’s spokesman. “The governor has sought to be forthright. We’ve been very open and honest about these matters.”

The personal payments, all of which Paterson later repaid, surfaced in an internal review by the governor’s campaign lawyer, Henry Berger.

The payments included two overnights at the Quality Hotel on the Upper West Side paid for by Paterson’s campaign. In both cases, Paterson said he can’t recall the circumstances of the stay or even who stayed at the hotel on those nights.

“With two exceptions, we have found that all of the itemizations we examined seem to be proper,” Berger said.

In trying to explain why he reimbursed a $1,430 American Express bill paid by his campaign, Paterson admitted several of the charges were for personal items such as clothing at the Men’s Warehouse, items at the Taft Furniture Warehouse and drinks at an upper Manhattan bar called The Den.