Politics on the Hudson

Gov. David Paterson took a shot this morning at his hand-picked Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand after Gillibrand earlier this month said Paterson should resign if the allegations against him are true.

“That’s about whenever you get in a jam, there are people who will throw you under the bus,” Paterson said this morning on Don Imus’ radio show.

“Whenever you watch a movie or whenever you read a book about someone who is in a difficult situation, there’s always those who do that,” Paterson continued. “They just don’t expect you to get out from under the bus, and when you do, they should be forewarned.”

Paterson again vowed that he would vindicated in the probes into whether he lied about getting free tickets to the World Series and interfered in a domestic-violence case involving a top aide, David Johnson.

“One of the issues I’ve championed over the last 25 years of my life is domestic violence. There’s personal connections I have with that issue,” Paterson said. “And I would never, nor did I ever, try to persuade anyone not to take the natural course of the law that would protect them.”

On the Yankees tickets, Paterson said he was invited to attend and should be there to represent the state, saying the World Series is a national pasttime. His lawyer yesterday produced emails that show Paterson was invited, but those tickets may have been for early rounds of the playoffs.

“This was a situation that was discussed in advance and it’s a situation where we wrote to them in advance and explained to them what we were going to do and I think when that all comes out it’ll work out,” Paterson said.

He said it makes sense for the governor to be at the World Series game.

“It’s the first game of the World Series and you would think your civic leaders, it’s the biggest night in baseball and it’s a big night culturally for America, the first game of the national pastime, you would think you should be there,” Paterson continued.

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