Paterson: no feud with Bloomberg
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Gov. Paterson denied today that he said this weekend that he couldn’t trust New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and that the mayor’s temper reminded him of Eliot Spitzer.
“No, I didn’t,’’ he told reporters today, who asked him about a New York Post report today that he had said several sharply critical things about Bloomberg to an anonymous source.
Among them: “We have a very good example of a person who has no defects in public, and, all of a sudden,’’ he’s self-destructing.’’
The two this weekend negotiated a state takeover of the city Off-track Betting Corp.
Paterson said he talked to Bloomberg this morning to assure him the report was untrue.
“We’re friends,’’ he said of himself and the mayor, who has been mentioned as a potential Republican candidate for governor in 2010. He added that Bloomberg has told him he doesn’t plan to run for governor against him in two years.
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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. 
