Dave Paterson's Latina lovelyBy MATTHEW NESTEL, FREDRIC U. DICKER and DAN MANGAN
Posted: 3:51 AM, January 17, 2010
Gov. Paterson was spotted nuzzling, neck-kissing and cooing like a smitten schoolboy with a pretty young woman -- not his wife -- in a New Jersey steakhouse yesterday afternoon, The Post has learned.
"I saw him kissing her neck," said Sharon Farrell, a lawyer sitting two tables away from Paterson and his mystery gal pal at the River Palm Terrace in Edgewater. "He was right on her neck, nudging, like back and forth."
Paterson's spokeswoman later said the governor's dining partner was just a friend, and that he never got romantic with her.
The governor himself told The Post that the woman "works with me."
'JUST FRIENDS': Gov. Paterson chatted with a fellow diner yesterday as a mystery woman (left) he was seen allegedly nuzzling stands aside. At right, the governor reacts to a Post lensman snapping away.
But Farrell said, "No way it was a business meeting . . . It was very intimate."
Farrell's friend and dining companion, special-ed teacher Carol McGuirt, said Paterson and his lady friend, a leggy Latina in her 20s, were ensconced in a cozy, curved banquette for several hours during lunch, and clearly were enjoying each other's company -- immensely.