Pataki's Maid Aide (wife's maid- paid for by state GOP) [View All]

January 31, 2005 -- ALBANY — The state Republi can Party has secretly funded a personal servant for Gov. Pata ki's wife, Libby, at the Pataki family mansion on the Hudson River, The Post has learned.

The servant — whose shock ing existence on the party payroll was unknown even among the state's highest- ranking GOP officials — was described to The Post by two Republican insiders as Mrs. Pataki's "maid" and "personal valet."

The employee, Michelle Stubbs, 56, of Chester, — less than 20 miles from Pataki's sprawling Putnam County es tate — is being paid $36,650 a year, plus expenses, out of the "housekeeping account" of the state GOP, records show. The account is supposed to fund routine party operating expenses.
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A prominent Republican who said he just learned of the highly unusual arrangement told The Post, "The few people who know about this just roll their eyes in disgust over how our badly needed money is being spent."

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