Following this blog’s lead—that’s a joke—the NY Post and the NY Daily News both call on David Paterson to resign.

Meanwhile, all three local papers report that Paterson won’t run for reelection.

(Meanwhile, props to local freebie AM New York for best headline: “Lonesome Guv.”)

Paterson should still resign: The incompetence and money-sucking that will occur in the last months of his lame-duck administration will further damage the state.

And in other news about corrupt New York politicians, sleazeball Charlie Rangel was “admonished” by the House ethics committee for taking corporate-sponsored junkets to the Caribbean.

As the Times reports, there are more Gucci loafers to drop.

But the ethics panel, the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, did not issue findings in its continuing inquiries into more serious matters concerning Mr. Rangel’s fund-raising, his failure to pay federal taxes on rental income from a Dominican villa, and his use of four rent-stabilized apartments provided by a Manhattan real estate developer.

Like Paterson, Rangel should resign. It’s time to clean this state up.