David Paterson revealed on Friday to serve out the term he inherited from Eliot Spitzer two years ago but would end his bid for a full four-year term.

"I hope that history will remember that I fought the good fight, that I did what was hard and I put the people first," he posted.

The good fight involved switching some long, mandatory prison sentences for drug offenders to stays in drug rehab programs, framing gay marriage as a civil right to advance it closer to law, and cutting billions in spending during a fiscal crisis.

The final push to end Paterson's campaign and the undoing of his troubled administration came this week in a New York Times report that reported that state police and Paterson was allegedly involved in a domestic violence case involving Dennis "D.J." Johnson, a trusted aide.

Paterson had hired Johnson more than 10 years ago to his Senate staff; with a view to give a second chance to escape then-crack riddled Harlem. Johnson flourished, rising from indefatigable intern to driver to trusted confidant.

The governor reportedly suspended Johnson without a salary and requested to initiate an aggressive investigation into the domestic abuse case and his own compliance.