“Former New York Gov. David Paterson found out that that he was about to become New York’s top elected official via a phone call made from a bathroom, less than an hour before the New York Times reported that his soon-to-be predecessor, Eliot Spitzer, was a client of an expensive escort service,” Politico reports.
Writes Patterson, in a new memoir: “My overriding thought about Spitzer’s departure and my elevation to the role of governor is that it’s the best benefit I ever got from sex — and I wasn’t even there.”
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