Petrelis Files

NY Governor Paterson's Wife's
Blue Jacket Revealed Affairs?

If there's a law requiring politicians' wives to wear pale blue jackets at news conferences when their husbands' disclose extramarital affairs, gay liaisons, or arrests for pursuing bathroom sex, someone forget to explain the law to Michele Paige Paterson, newly-minted First Lady of New York.

When her husband, David Paterson, the Empire State's new luv guv, admitted on Tuesday at a press briefing that he and his wife had both engaged in romances outside of their heterosexual marriage vows, Michele dutifully stood at his side wearing a deep black jacket.

But look at her outfit on Monday, when her husband was sworn in as governor.

The image above very much reminds me of the attire worn by Silda Spitzer, Suzanne Craig and Dina McGreevey when they faced the cameras and scandal-hungry reporters with their husbands. Notice a striking similarity in these photos?

I'm sure Michele Paige Paterson dressed in her pale blue jacket on Monday simply because she liked it. But do you think with the power of hindsight, we can see her blue jacket as a possible pre-emptive signal? Only political fashionistas know for sure.