Manhattan Adult Entertainment: Paterson drops out of New York governor race

… Up until the last few days, I was looking forward to participating in that work in a full four-year term,” Paterson said. “But I am being realistic about politics. It hasn’t been the latest distraction, it’s been an accumulation of obstacles that have obfuscated me from bringing my message to the public.
“Therefore, there are times in politics when you have to know not to strive for service but to step back. And that moment has come for me,” he said.
“Today, I am announcing I am ending my campaign for governor of the state of New York,” he said. His wife Michelle stood by his side, eyes red-rimmed and looking weary in a black suit.
A member of a prominent African American political family, he became governor in 2008 when former Gov. Eliot Spitzer was forced out of office by a prostitution scandal. Once a popular state senator, Paterson found himself caught up in the state’s budget crisis and in a variety of personal and political problems.

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