NY governor Paterson discloses extramarital affairs

WITH his predecessor’s term doomed by a sex scandal, New York Governor David Paterson came clean about his own skeletons just hours after assuming office by acknowledging he had affairs with several women, including a state employee.

Paterson was sworn in almost exactly a week after allegations first surfaced that former governor Eliot Spitzer was “Client 9” of a high-end call girl service.

Paterson and his wife Michelle told a news conference that both had affairs during a rough patch in their marriage several years ago.