Manhattan Adult Entertainment: Paterson Drops Out of Governor Race

Mr. Paterson, his administration caught up in a whirlwind of allegations about its intervention in a domestic violence episode involving a top aide, ended his campaign less than a week after it officially began.
He spoke to more than 60 reporters, photographers and camera men crammed into a small briefing room the governor’s office on Third Avenue in Manhattan
As he prepared for the Friday announcement, some newspaper editorial writers were demanding more than an end to his candidacy: they called for his resignation. That had only added to the increasing sense that it would be nearly impossible for him to run the state and the campaign with the abuse case in the background.
Still, as recently as Thursday evening, Mr. Paterson — who was elected lieutenant governor in November 2006 and became governor in March 2008 after Eliot Spitzer resigned amid a prostitution scandal — had insisted that he would stay in the race.

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