Spitzer Rejoins Politics, Asking for Forgiveness

New York Times ^ | MICHAEL BARBARO and DAVID W. CHEN

[lbryce]

Eliot Spitzer, who resigned as governor of New York five years ago amid a prostitution scandal, is re-entering political life, with a run for the citywide office of comptroller and a hope that voters are ready to look past his previous misconduct.

Former Gov. Eliot Spitzer, hoping that voters have forgiven him his previous misconduct, will run for the citywide office of comptroller.

In an interview, Mr. Spitzer, 54, sounding restless after an unwelcome hiatus from government, said he had re-envisioned the often-overlooked office and wanted to resurrect the kind of aggressive role he played as New York State’s attorney general. He said that he had consulted with his family and taken the temperature of the city’s ever-candid electorate, and that he believed New Yorkers would be open to his candidacy.

“I’m hopeful there will be forgiveness, I am asking for it,” he said in the telephone interview on Sunday night.

[lbryce]

Did a search for the title of the article and got no returns. I just noticed the similar article posted earlier.

I apologize for the redundant post.

[lbryce]

Gr-e-e-e-e-a-a-a-t pic. :-)

[Vince Ferrer]

“I was ahead of my time, and since then you’ve lowered your standards.”

[Mygirlsmom]

Another "Freddie Krueger" Dem pol.

He's Baaaaack!!!

[Misterioso]

Spitzer and Weiner (what a combo) shouldn’t be forgiven for their decisions to enter politics. Scum.

[Misterioso]

Don’t her arms look a little like wieners?

[jmacusa]

Read a bio on Bernard Spitzer, the father of this creep and you get a fix on the son. The apples don't fall far from the tree. Spitzer the Younger is a sexual deviant to be sure, but to the contrary his is quite the meglomanic.

[Iron Munro]

Democrats publicly shamed because of their sexual peccadilloes, run out of office for dishonesty, or caught using their government position to enrich friends and relatives wear their transgressions proudly, like a merit badge.

That lets the rank and file leftists know they are on the team.

Look at Charles Rangel as an example.

[lbryce]

I find it very interesting that Spitzer is known to be worth $500 million+.

[afraidfortherepublic]

It seems that the only thing NYes want is a D behind the candidate’s name....

[Carry_Okie]

Don’t her arms look a little like wieners?

You're looking at her arms... Really?

[Ouderkirk]

Think of it....NYC run by a Wiener and a Spitzer.

[Stormdog]

“Think of it....NYC run by a Wiener and a Spitzer.”

But only if Wiener can plug the dyke.

[OrangeHoof]

As I’ve said many times, it is impossible to shame a Democrat. Spitzer and Weiner are but two examples. It’s as if the “shame gene” is not part of their DNA.

[bronxville]

This man was making great headway in getting the banksters then all of a sudden he was cought in this prostition thing. IMO, he was targeted by PRISM. He’s not Weiner, this man is more even keeled.

[cynwoody]

Don’t her arms look a little like wieners?

Her client only wants to be comptroller.

Anthony Weiner, husband of the Mooselimb Brotherhood, wants to be da Mayor! to be Doomberg's successor, Regulator in Chief of da City of New Yawk!

[cynwoody]

He’s not Weiner, this man is more even keeled.

And thus more dangerous?

"Mayor Weiner" would be a fine diss of every citizen of NYC!

Vote Weiner for Mayor! Show the whole wide, wide world how to be a LIV! So we can laugh at you!

[sun7]

Spitzer also waged a personal vendetta against AIG and its founder when he was AG of NY. Details can be found in the book The AIG Story, a very sad tale of how a great Amercian company was almost destroyed.

[jmacusa]

Spitzer The Younger roared into office and in his own words called himself a ‘’f**king steamroller’’ bent on ‘’taming Wall Street fat cats’’. While it's 's certainly true that ‘’pride(and arrogance) goeth before the fall’’, irony is often the quiet epitaph. So quiet and ironic, it bellows, if you know what I mean.Spitzer was surely driven by some desire for revenge perhaps in connection with his fathers real estate empire, maybe an enemy of dads needed ''taming'' and sonny boy here was going to have it. If ever someone needed to be hoisted on their own petard it was this little martinet.

[jmacusa]

In New Jersey we once had a governor who swallowed and New York had one who ‘’spit’’.