"Fuck you, Jersey, we're not ceding the sleaze level to anyone!" That's the message newly sworn-in New York Governor David Paterson is sending to the state across the river through the New York Daily News (which, for today at least, OWNS the New York Post):

The thunderous applause was still ringing in his ears when the state's new governor, David Paterson, told the Daily News that he and his wife had extramarital affairs.

In a stunning revelation, both Paterson, 53, and his wife, Michelle, 46, acknowledged in a joint interview they each had intimate relationships with others during a rocky period in their marriage several years ago.

There's plenty more in the News (saddest bit: they trysted at a Days Inn), and we'll let you go and read it there, because your correspondents are now too afraid to go to bed on the off chance that Connecticut Governor Jodi Rell announces that she is a space alien who has been having an affair with a shape-shifting dragon who happens to be a senior member of the Massachusetts congressional delegation. WHAT THE FUCK, POLITICIANS? YOU'RE JUST LIKE US!