Spitzer to run for State Comptroller?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

OK, any truth to these rumors I'm hearing that he's considering it? That's kind of lol, but I'd support him regardless.

[Alexander Hamilton]

lol

[JohnnyLongtorso]

Well, if Alan Hevesi can win despite an ethics scandal that leads to his resignation a month later, then Spitzer would be a shoo-in.

[Psychic Octopus]

Oh wow.

[Phony Moderate]

I find the word "comptroller" more amusing than the idea of Spitzer running for it.

[Sam Spade]

I've been hearing this rumor too.  Keep in mind, he would have to beat the present comptroller, Thomas DiNapoli, whom he appointed, in a primary.  Apparently, Spitzer and his people think he's weak, that's why the rumor has been floating, though I have no idea how to validate that thesis.

[Bo]

Hello everybody, I'm new here.

In regards to this topic, I think Spitzer should consider it since he has valuable legal experience. However, I feel that his reputation might be permanently tarnished and thus he would be unable to make an effective run.

[© tweed]

Spitzer has done everything perfectly since March '08.

[Purple State]

Spitzer has done everything perfectly since March '08.

He has basically written the textbook on how to recover from a fall.

As to the rumors, I have been hearing them, but a lot of the New York rumor mill is generated by polls, rather than hard confirmations. If it wasn't DiNapoli with weak numbers then Spitzer would be rumored to be interested in some other position, and when DiNapoli's numbers rise, people will start talking about Spitzer's "fading prospects" for comptroller. Either way, it will be interesting to see what happens.

[timmer123]

That and Democrats don't really give a sh**t about ethics when they vote..

Eliot Spitzer is a scumbag..

[JohnnyLongtorso]

That and Democrats don't really give a sh**t about ethics when they vote..

Eliot Spitzer is a scumbag..

*sigh* Do we really have to go through this? Duke Cunningham, Ted Stevens, Bob Ney, Mark Foley, John Sweeney, Don Sherwood, Tom Feeney, Mark Sanford, John Ensign, Vito Fossella, and Conrad Burns. And that's just from the past five years.

[Joe Republic]

That and Democrats don't really give a sh**t about ethics when they vote..

Eliot Spitzer is a scumbag..

*sigh* Do we really have to go through this? Duke Cunningham, Ted Stevens, Bob Ney, Mark Foley, John Sweeney, Don Sherwood, Tom Feeney, Mark Sanford, John Ensign, Vito Fossella, and Conrad Burns. And that's just from the past five years.

You forgot Vitter.

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

That and Democrats don't really give a sh**t about ethics when they vote..

Eliot Spitzer is a scumbag..

*sigh* Do we really have to go through this? Duke Cunningham, Ted Stevens, Bob Ney, Mark Foley, John Sweeney, Don Sherwood, Tom Feeney, Mark Sanford, John Ensign, Vito Fossella, and Conrad Burns. And that's just from the past five years.

You forgot Vitter.

And Delay

[Eraserhead]

I'm fine with Spitzer as a person but I don't care too much for him as an officeholder. Also, he thought the Iraq War was just swell. That always bothered me.

[Lief 🗽]

Endorsed. Spitzer is one of the good guys.

[cinyc]

Endorsed. Spitzer is one of the good guys.

Yeah I hear he's very good at laundering money to pay for hookers.  That seems like the perfect skill set for a state comptroller. 

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

What two consenting adults do together is none of anyone else's business, even if there's money involved.

[cinyc]

What two consenting adults do together is none of anyone else's business, even if there's money involved.

Nonsense.  Had Spitzer made repeated trips to Nevada brothels on his own dime and paid for hookers, there would be nothing wrong with his behavior.  But what Spitzer did was against the law - and symptomatic of an egomaniac politician who thought he was above the laws he was constitutionally obligated to uphold - and prosecute, when he was Attorney General.   Not just the sex laws, but the anti-structuring money laundering laws, which he deliberately flaunted to pay his hookers.

What Spitzer did is an abuse of trust.  That he got run out on a rail in liberal New York should tell you something was extremely rotten. 

Spitzer simply can't be trusted with New York's money.  It would have been much cheaper for him to go to Nevada or Amsterdam in the long run. 

[patrick1]

Don't mess with Spitzer, cinyc. I heard he is a f 'cking steamroller.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I drank alcohol before I was 21. Ooooh, I broke the law. I am an evil individual fit to never hold public office ever I guess. Just like everyone else who has ever drank underage or smoked weed or jaywalked, etc.

[cinyc]

I drank alcohol before I was 21. Ooooh, I broke the law. I am an evil individual fit to never hold public office ever I guess. Just like everyone else who has ever drank underage or smoked weed or jaywalked, etc.

Go start a political career grandstanding about prosecuting underage drinkers, drug takers and jaywalkers, and then we'll talk about your hypocrisy when caught doing the same.