Paterson Rumors: Wife Swapping and Drugs?

The rumors about a forthcoming New York Times expose on Governor Paterson have intensified. Commenters on a recent Daily News story, and a number of users on Twitter, have mentioned the same thing: that the story concerns drug fueled wife-swapping parties at the Governors Mansion. That sounds too insane to be true, but we'll keep our ears to the ground until something definitive comes out.

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By Jake Dobkin in News on February 5, 2010 11:09 PM

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ilovejapgirls

for a moment, i thought it was another type of 'swapping' going on at the gov's mansion

Mr. Shankly

I hope to god video of said swinging doesn't surface.

Mordicai

Oh no, consensual sex?! HOW CAN WE STAND FOR IT. I just hope there wasn't...weed involved...DUN DUN DUN!

Kelles

Leave Paterson alone! He just likes to watch

Splicer

Also, the term "wife swapping" sounds a bit archaic.

squatch

yeah, maybe the wives are just husband swapping

ides_of_march

We dumped Eliot Spitzer for this?

chuzzlewit

it's snowing!

Mookie Wilson

Just inked a deal to play second for the Mets.

Aram

Poor word choice, Splicer..

airtech1

Walk on the blind side...

RevWaldo

Well, swinging is one of the few activities where blindness actually works to your advantage, so, hey, more power...

estragon

Here's a thought: how about Gothamist waits until the story actually comes out before wasting your time telling everybody how outrageous and shocking it might be when it comes out if it's what somebody else thinks it might be, but maybe it's something else? Come on, this isn't even gossip -- it's a salacious teaser for the promise of unspecified future gossip that you read somebody saying they saw someone speculating about it on Twitter. Just step back from the echo chamber, take a breath, and get back to the keyboard when something actually happens, okay?

kane

+1

Dead Himmler

-1 Fixed

ides_of_march

I never figured him for the voyeur type.

verbal

nice.

Spirit of 76

But it was medicinal marijuana. For his blindness. That's his story and he's sticking to it.

dropstep

Geeez leave the man alone for crying out loud!!!

Fnnnn media!!!

I don't see them going after Mike Bloomberg.

The man is blind for goodness sake.

GET A LIFE!!!

verbal

bloomberg jumps in his chopper to shoot up there for the water sports.

great state, awesome city - the unions own these fucking retards and have destroyed it for the rest of us. enjoy financing these assholes.

CR

Now when you say "water sports" is that happening at the Mansion too?

Splicer

Is it that people shouldn't be swingers or that the Governor shouldn't be a swinger? Maybe he shouldn't host swingers parties at the mansion -- is that it? I bet that's it. Wouldn't want to taint the history of corruption embodied in that building by tainting it with consensual sex.