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On last night’s program, State Sen. President Malcolm Smith discussed the failure of the Senate to override Gov. Paterson’s veto of the Ethics Reform bill. Watch the video above.

Tonight’s guests include: Our NY1 Wise Guys.

The New York Times

Ironically, the reported queries of New York Times reporters about the governor’s personal life have resulted in no actual articles in The Paper of Record. So while the Freak Show has been unleashed in Albany and virtually everywhere else, there are no stories about it in The Times.

Rivera & Rashbaum report: “City Councilman Larry B. Seabrook is expected to turn himself in to federal authorities in Manhattan on Tuesday to face a 13-count indictment accusing him of money laundering, extortion and fraud, a person briefed on the matter said.”

Columnist Clyde Haberman focuses on today as the Day of Reckoning for State Sen. Hiram Monserrate.

Jeremy Peters writes: “The Legislature failed Monday to override Gov. David A. Paterson’s veto of legislation intended to require greater transparency and accountability in public office. Although the State Assembly voted 136 to 2 to override the governor, the measure failed in the State Senate, where the vote broke down mainly along party lines. One Democrat joined 25 Republicans in sustaining the veto. Mr. Paterson, a Democrat, has said the bill amounted to little more than minimal reform.”

Sam Dolnick reports: “Federal prosecutors on Monday painted a damning portrait of Bernard B. Kerik, the former New York City police commissioner, as a corrupt official whose ‘egotism and hubris’ led him to commit crimes that would upgrade his lifestyle.”

New York Post

In a column, Fred Dicker writes: “The wildest thing about the wild rumors surrounding Gov. Paterson's supposedly imminent resignation is that everybody in the state Capitol -- indeed everybody in the state political community -- is ready to believe anything about the governor, no matter how bad it is.”

Carl Campanile notes: “Losing bidders are considering filing suit against Gov. Paterson for allowing the consortium chosen to operate 4,500 video slots at Aqueduct Racetrack to clean up its act after the fact, sources said yesterday. The Aqueduct Entertainment Group announced yesterday that the Darman Group -- headed by convicted criminal Darryl Greene -- would be removed as a key partner in the project.”

New York Daily News

Ken Lovett reports: “A chaotic Capitol plunged to new lows Monday as Gov. Paterson was forced to swat down "callous and sleazy" speculation he's quitting amid personal and political scandal. The pushback capped a remarkable few days in which an apparently orchestrated rumor mill about the gov's drug use and womanizing reached a fever pitch, peaking with blogs claiming his resignation was imminent. An increasingly beleaguered Paterson scrambled yesterday to pick up the pieces of his political world as it crumbled around him. ‘For the last couple of weeks I have been the subject of what, even by Albany standards, has been a spate of outrageous rumors about me,’ Paterson told The Associated Press.”

Blain & Donohue report: “Gov. Paterson came out with a plan to save the MTA on Monday: jack up taxes in New York City and lower them in the suburbs. Perhaps not surprisingly, Mayor Bloomberg and key Senate Democrats almost immediately slammed the proposal."

David Saltonstall notes: “Sen. Chuck Schumer had a tip for the White House Monday - go find a nice cow town to host the 9/11 terror trials. ‘My advice to the President is, with a great deal of respect, take New York off your radar screen,’ the state's senior senator told reporters. ‘Find another location.' ‘The most logical place,’ added Schumer, ‘is in some isolated military base that is completely far away from population centers and is self-contained.’”

Until tomorrow.

Bob Hardt