Like the Energizer Bunny, it just keeps on going and going and ………

Ousted NY Assemblyman and corrupt Dem party boss Clarence Norman Norman was tried, convicted, and received successive jail-time for similar campaign transgressions Paterson admits to. Norman used campaign funds for pricey clothes and shoes…..and more. Norman was sentenced to 2-6 in prison for not reporting thousands of dollars in in-kind political contributions and pocketing a $5,000 check intended for his re-election committee.

PATERSON TELLS HIS NOT-SO-WISE MAN: THANKS FOR NOTHING (gov’s motel trysts spark more scrutiny)

WITH FRIENDS LIKE THESE…..Bill Lynch, a top Democrat, advised Paterson to reveal his affairs.

Gov. Paterson is angrily blaming former Deputy Mayor and long time Democratic operative Bill Lynch for the “disastrous advice” to disclose his extramarital affairs…….”Lynch helped the city’s first black mayor lose office, and now he’s helping the state’s first black governor do the same.”

Lynch, a deputy to Mayor David Dinkins and a lobbyist who brags of his ties to public officials, played a key role in convincing the new governor he could end widespread rumors of martial infidelities if he simply disclosed their existence…..Instead, the disclosure - initially incomplete - triggered a damaging media frenzy that still continues.

“It was the wrong advice, and it has damaged David badly,” said a source who knows Paterson well. Several sources said Paterson has privately conceded that his public disclosures - first in an interview and then at a tense, and bizarre, press conference with Michelle at his side - were a major mistake. Democratic officials also fear that Paterson may have been so badly damaged by the disclosures that he will have little chance to attract the tens of millions he would need to mount a 2010 campaign for governor.

Paterson ducked questions and received chants of “David! David!” from a jubilant crowd during an appearance before Al Sharpton’s National Action Network in Harlem……. powwowed with Sharpton and made a brief speech about fairness….. “Just as it is always important not to forget where you came from, which I will not do, it is also important not to exclude anyone else in the way we were excluded for so many years by others,” Paterson told the crowd.

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