If disgraced former Gov. Eliot Spitzer is seriously thinking about running for political office again, he should think again – there’s no way he can get ahead of the scandal that brought him down, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver said yesterday.
“I don’t think the time is right,” Silver said on Albany’s Talk1300-AM when questioned about whether he would support another political play by Spitzer.
Silver was responding to a New York Post report earlier this week that the ex-governor might be considering a political comeback next year.
Sources told the Post that Spitzer, who’s said his own poll numbers are better than Gov. David Paterson’s (that’s not difficult), would likely not attempt a run for governor, focusing instead on the comptroller position or unseating Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand.
Spitzer had no comment for the Post, and Silver says that’s because he’s not serious about running.
“It may be some of the people close to him testing the waters as to what kind of negatives still prevail on that,” Silver said. “I don’t believe [he’s] is thinking of that, and I don’t think he wants to put his family through this.”
(Source: NBC New York)
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True. Spitzer did a disgraceful thing, to say the least. But politics and such disgraceful things are no strange bedfellows. There are politicians serving who have equally disgraced their family and personal lives.
That being said: Elliot Spitzer was the only law enforcement official going after the criminals on Wall Street long before their very activities lead to the financial capital of the world’s fall. Those he was prosecuting and seeking to prosecute “ratted” him out for his disgrace to get him out of the way.
Personally, what he did was a disgrace. Professionally, he was a bull dog in finding and prosecuting corruption on Wall Street, the very corruption that caused it’s collapse.
Let him redeem himself.