Now Here's a Guy I Can Get Behind...

FROM SALON.COM:

Yesterday -"Just so we don't have to go through this whole resignation thing again," one ballsy reporter asked, "have you ever patronized a prostitute?" Paterson thought for a minute. "Only the lobbyists," he said.

That's an exchange New York Lt. Gov. David Paterson had with a reporter, according to New York magazine's Daily Intelligencer blog. Paterson will replace outgoing Gov. Eliot Spitzer on Monday.