The saga over who will replace Hillary Clinton in the Senate may be over, but the drama continues!

New York Gov. David Paterson’s desperately trying to move on from the whole ordeal — he even canceled a trip to Switzerland — but Mike Bloomberg’s not going to let the governor get away that easy. New York City Mayor Bloomberg this week called the treatment of Caroline Kennedy during her Senate bid "reprehensible," and wants to know who’s behind the leaking of news that perhaps she was bowing out of the race because of tax and nanny problems.

"I thought that the stuff that I saw in the papers was totally inappropriate," said Bloomberg. "It’s as good an example of cheap dirty politics as you could ever find, and I thought it was reprehensible." The Daily News reported Monday that Paterson signed off on the attack strategy pushed by a paid consultant.

Paterson says he doesn’t know who was behind the bashing. On Monday, he at first denied he or his staff was behind them, but then said they were coming from his office — but he doesn’t know from whom. "As you know, this is a pretty serious thing, and actually one that I would condemn," he said. But the New York Post is actually calling him a "liar," saying there’s no way the suspected leaker would have gone to the press with the damaging information without the governor’s approval.

Kennedy was "mired in some potentially embarrassing personal issues," the source told reporters Friday, says the Post. "She has a tax problem that came up in the vetting and a potential nanny issue. And reporters are starting to look at her marriage more closely … The governor had no intention of picking her because of the botched rollout executed in recent weeks. The Post has also reported that Kennedy bowed out for none of the reasons reported — but rather for a specific, family issue — and Paterson knew it. 

"Caroline can’t believe what Paterson did to her. She was smeared, and she’s never going to forgive it or forget it," a source told the Post.

The way Paterson handled the whole thing may hurt him in the long term, too. "There’s an awful lot of buzz in this place about the trouble the governor is in," one Democratic lawmaker told The Buffalo News. A Siena College poll released Monday shows that, although most New Yorkers like Paterson, more voters now say they prefer "someone else" as governor in 2010. That "someone" could very well be Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, who many voters would love to see in his dad’s former office.