Gov. Paterson should be able to boot “rogue” MTA board members, especially those with flimsy attendance records, such as trucking heiress — and Paul McCartney girlfriend — Nancy Shevell, a long-serving member said yesterday.

“Anybody that serves on the MTA board is responsible to the straphangers,” the member said. “At the same time, I think there should be some relationship between the governor and his appointees. You can’t be rogue.”

The Post revealed yesterday that Paterson tried to oust Shevell after she received bad press about missing crucial board meetings to go, according to sources, on international jaunts with McCartney.

Shevell, who was appointed to the board in 2001, retaliated on Wednesday by casting the lone dissenting vote to a compensation package that Paterson had negotiated for incoming agency chief Jay Walder, sources said.

Shevell yesterday did not return calls for comment.

Paterson, meanwhile, said, “We have no problem with any of the board members, and their vote is their decision.”