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Spitzer Eying Return to Politics: Insiders

Others close to ex-guv dispute claim

By Matt Cantor,  Newser Staff

Posted Sep 1, 2009 9:06 AM CDT
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(Newser) – Eliot Spitzer is tossing around the possibility of a comeback bid, mulling a run for New York state office next year, insiders tell the New York Post. The ex-governor is said to be eying the state comptroller's job or Kirsten Gillibrand’s Senate seat. But it’s all informal at this point: He hasn’t held “active discussions with political consultants,” the sources tell the Post.

Other sources close to Spitzer, however, say he’s not looking to run for office again. One says he’s stuck, at least for another year. “He loves to be in the limelight. But he knows it can't happen." The ex-governor recently told Vanity Fair that “I've a hard time seeing politics as a career. I wouldn't want to put my family through the agony. But that doesn't mean I can't participate somehow in the public debate about the issues.”

In this March 12, 2008 file photo, then New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer announces his resignation amidst a prostitution scandal as wife Silda looks on in his offices in New York City.
In this March 12, 2008 file photo, then New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer announces his resignation amidst a prostitution scandal as wife Silda looks on in his offices in New York City.   (AP Photo/Stephen Chernin, File)
In this March 12, 2008 file photo, former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer announces his resignation at his office in New York.
In this March 12, 2008 file photo, former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer announces his resignation at his office in New York.   (AP Photo/Stephen Chernin)
Former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, right, and his wife, Silda, enjoy ballpark food while awaiting the start of the Texas Rangers-New York Yankees baseball game in New York, Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2009.
Former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, right, and his wife, Silda, enjoy ballpark food while awaiting the start of the Texas Rangers-New York Yankees baseball game in New York, Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2009.   (AP Photo/Henny Ray Abrams)
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Yourself
Sep 1, 2009 10:04 AM CDT
@ford - the thing is it's not a blue-collar-white-collar-green-collar issue here. Yeah, he was a crusader against white collar crime, but prostitution has been around since well before the shirt collar! He wasn't being a hypocrit by hiring a prostitute, he was just being foolish and thinking with the wrong head.
NxBigmouthery
Sep 1, 2009 8:41 AM CDT
He's counting on the short memories of the public. Ordinarily I'd say 'too soon' but with all the other bullshit going on, he could slide right back in there.
fancygapva
Sep 1, 2009 7:20 AM CDT
@nawambe, excellent point. I also don't see a lot of connection between one's sexual proclivities (irrational, hormone driven) and fighting the good (rational) fight. Not to be crude, but pussy power rules, whether he was set up or not, drugs and sex are the downfall of many great men. In this case, all we know of is sex, I would really sorry when he was brought down in this way. Jack Kennedy would have been too if the press had been scum-suckers back then. Private life is private life.

 
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