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@ NYWiener running for mayor and now this other clown is back.
Former Gov. Eliot Spitzer stunned the political establishment Sunday night by announcing he is running for city controller — joining mayoral hopeful Anthony Weiner as the latest disgraced politician looking for a comeback.
In an odd twist, the ex-governor — who resigned in 2008 amid a high-priced call girl scandal — will be competing against Kristin Davis, the ex-madam who says she supplied him with hookers and who is running on the Libertarian line.
“I love public service,” Spitzer told the Daily News. “I believe in it, and hope I will be given a second chance.
“After being out of office for five years, thinking deeply, reflecting on what I was able to do when I was in government ... I’m going to try and seek the controller’s office and ask the public to consider me,” Spitzer said.
Spitzer, 54, is creating a committee that will begin circulating nominating petitions Monday in the effort to collect the requisite 3,750 signatures to get on the ballot by Thursday’s deadline. The son of a wealthy real estate developer, Spitzer said he won’t opt into the city’s public campaign finance system.
“This is going to be the funnest campaign ever,” said Davis, who went to prison for three months for her role in running a high-end escort service. Spitzer, who was identified as “Client No. 9” by call girl Ashley Dupre and was known for keeping his black socks on during sexual encounters, was never charged in the scandal.
Davis recently flirted with running for public advocate, but now will run for controller as originally planned.
“I’ve been waiting for my day to face him for five years,” Davis said. “I sat ... in Rikers Island, I came out penniless and nothing happened to him. The hypocrisy there is huge.”
Spitzer said he recognizes he will be asked about the prostitution scandal that brought him down in 2008, less than 15 months into a governorship that had originally held great promise.
“I have no doubt there will be questions about that,” he said. “I have no hesitance about addressing those questions. They are fair questions. Life has peaks and valleys. The peaks are more fun, but the valleys are more educational.”
The once-self-proclaimed steamroller now says: “I hope I have learned. I hope I have changed. I seek this office with humility.”
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ele...ty-controller-article-1.1392529#ixzz2YTr3gm00
