Posted on 07/07/2013 8:07:40 PM PDT by 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.
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Hey Eliot....go for PRESIDENT!!! Democrats will vote for ANYONE with a “D”.
Suffice it to say that neither man is a Republican; those guys tend to be held accountable for their sex scandals.
You forgot your sarc tag....Sanford the biggest joke in politics was just reelected in the red state of South Carolina.
Will he, like Weiner, say that the public will very likely find out that he has been involved in more sexual escapades?
When the Leftists forgive Reagan for bringing down Soviet Russia, then they can ask me.
Two New York State Troopers ventilated their heads with their service weapon in the aftermath of the Spitzer scandal. They won’t be running in the election or anything else. No “come back” for them.
OK, we forgive you. Now, GO AWAY!
Weiner-Spritzer! What a ticket! Even better than the Wiener-Holder ticket!
What a colorfully descriptive word, martinet. I love it.
In English, the term martinet is usually used not in reference to the whip itself, but rather him who would use it, a person who demands strict adherence to set rules, especially such a person in the military. This sense of the word reputedly comes from the name of Jean Martinet, Inspector General of the army of Louis XIV and thus would be etymologically only by accident related to the earlier sense.
In an extended sense, a martinet is any person for whom a strict adherence to rules and etiquette is paramount: martinets often use etiquette and other rules as an excuse to trump ethics, to the point that etiquette loses its ethical ground. The Ugandan dictator Idi Amin was famously described as a "strutting martinet" by Time in 1977.
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