Eliot Spitzer, the disgraced former Democratic governor of New York, is trying to rehabilitate himself with a talk show on CNN. And Fox Business Network correspondent Charles Gasparino says the former brothel client may run for mayor of New York City in 2013.
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To be sure, “the Spitzer-for-mayor scenario is far from a layup,” Gasparino writes in a
New York Post opinion piece.
“The idea is that Spitzer, the son of a near-billionaire real-estate magnate, would run as a self-financed independent, a la Mike Bloomberg. But he's got baggage that Bloomberg, for all his crass temperament, didn't have in 2001 — starting with his record in state politics.
"Polarizing" doesn't capture the Spitzer effect: During his short stint as governor, he was widely despised even by many fellow Democrats as a bully, threatening or throwing temper tantrums at the slightest provocation. Who needs a tough-talking lightweight as mayor?”
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