New York’s Lieutenant Governor, David Paterson, will take over for Eliot Spitzer as of Monday and retain the post until he is discovered by the FBI in the walk-in freezer of the Albany IHOP, trussed and ball-gagged by a hooker in a Batman suit. Paterson, a scion of his father’s Harlem political machine, has fluked his way upward into increasingly important posts, despite dad’s occasional lack of support. Now he is the luckiest man in New York (except for Joe Bruno). Follow us on Paterson’s magical journey through the halls of New York power! MORE »