Why will or won Governor Spitzer resume his place in politics?”
Reports of former Gov. Eliot Spitzer plotting a 2010 run for U.S. Senate or comptroller are untrue, the former governor and other top political observers said . Gov. David A. Paterson said his predecessor has never indicated a desire to run again for elective office. “In my conversations with him he has seemed very much the opposite,” Paterson said in the Capitol. “No, he never brought that up.” Spitzer, who resigned amid a prostitution scandal in 2008, did not return phone calls to his Manhattan real estate office. But NY1 News reported the former governor Tuesday called a New York Post story stating he’s considering a run for statewide office “totally untrue. “I think it was undoubtable that in his time in public service that Eliot Spitzer was an outstanding public servant,” Paterson said of the man he served with as lieutenant governor for 14 months. “What he does from here on in is his decision and eventually the public’s.” Asked what office Spitzer should seek, Paterson quipped, “
