New York’s new Governor, David Patterson, continues his confessor’s tour:
NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s new governor, who disclosed last week that he and his wife committed adultery several years ago, said Monday he used cocaine in his 20s and smoked marijuana when he was younger.
In reference to cocaine, Gov. David Paterson, 53, said in a television interview that he “tried it a couple of times” when he was “about 22 or 23.”
“And marijuana probably when I was about 20,” he said on the NY1 cable news station. “I don’t think I touched marijuana since the ’70s.”
Apparently, this isn’t really news since Patterson had talked about it before:
In Monday’s interview, Paterson pointed out he had acknowledged to a television journalist in 2006 that he had used illegal drugs.
The NY1 interviewer, Dominic Carter, noted that few people paid attention to Paterson’s revelation then because he was running for lieutenant governor.
I’m not sure what the logic behind Patterson’s decision to admit to all these problems in his past is exactly. Perhaps he doesn’t intend to run for re-election in 2010.
