Paterson: Hotel bills were legit
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  Gov. David Paterson said he stayed in downtown Albany hotels on a number of occasions while he was lieutentant governor to “accomodate the governor,’’ he said today.
“When we had early-morning meetings or press conferences, I don’t know, 10 or 15 times,’’ he said at a news conference in Manhattan this morning, “I actually stayed in hotels in Albany to accommodate the governor.’’
Paterson, who last week admitted several instances of marital infidelities, owns a home in the Albany suburb of Guilderland, about a 15 or 20-minute trip from the Capitol. But he said that was too far away to get to some early-morning events. He has said the affairs stopped several years ago.
The New York Post reported today that Paterson spent more than $2,500 in taxpayer money on hotel bills in Albany since he became lieutenant governor in January of 2007.
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Jay Gallagher has covered Albany for Gannett News Service since 1984 and has been Albany Bureau chief since 1989. He`s a native of the Boston area and likes to point out that in this millennium, the score is Red Sox 1 championship, the Yankees 0. 
Cara Matthews has been a statehouse correspondent in the Albany Bureau since August 2005. Prior to that, she covered Putnam County government and politics at The Journal News for nearly five years. Before that, she worked at newspapers in Connecticut and covered the state Legislature for one of them. 
