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A spokeswoman for Governor Paterson revealed that the governor only yesterday learned of the high price tag antique rugs bought for the Executive Mansion over the summer. His administration also denied all requests from the press to see the rug, that now has been revealed to be one of five purchased--for a total of just under $38,000. Assemblyman James Tedisco has already called on the governor to return the expensive carpeting. But once again the Office of General Services was defending the purchase saying, "We have to keep that mansion in the kind of condition it's in because it's a treasure to the public." And the general manager at Stark Carpeting, where the first rug was discovered to have been bought for over $20,000 defended the governor for actually being a spendthrift by not purchasing a $150,000 carpet, "They could have had the Bentley instead of the Ford."
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I wonder if the expensive rugs are really small and that's why the press can't see them.
Here is an idea, why not rent out the Governor's Mansion for weddings, bar/mat mitzvahs, conferences, etc. and have the Governor live in an cheap apartment?
Ooh, seperate incidents!
can i move into this "treasure" when my i lose my home to foreclosure? i mean, it's a treasure for me, right?
that rug really tied the room together...
Wait until you see the drapery bill.
You know everywhere you look there are increasingly more & more stories like this -of petite or grand corruption- popping up here and there across the political spectrum; Rangel, Spitzer, Paterson, the Jersey Fag Gov, the other guy doing BJ's in airport bathrooms. The list is endless.
Proof positive that the USA has become a Third World country.
Felicitaciones!
I got that same rug at Target and it's gorgeous under the simulated wood grain CD tower.