Manhattan Adult Entertainment: NY Governor David Paterson will drop bid for election to full term
Democratic officials in Washington were informed of Mr. Paterson’s plans early Friday, the Associated Press reported. The governor has faced intensifying pressure to abandon his campaign, as a senior aide quit his administration in outrage and the New York political world responded with disgust to allegations the state police and the Democratic governor interfered with a domestic-violence case involving a top aide. Mr. Paterson’s administration was plunged into disarray late Wednesday after it was reported by the New York Times that the governor and a member of his security detail had conversations with a woman pursing a protection order against a top administration aide, David Johnson, 37 years old, a close friend and adviser to Mr. Paterson.
Just days ago Paterson, a former lieutenant governor who assumed the state’s top job after Gov. Eliot Spitzer resigned due to a prostitution scandal in 2008, had announced his intention to run for a full term as governor.