Spitzer Eying Return to Politics: Insiders

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.”
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