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Updated September 01, 2009

Spitzer Eyeing Possible Comeback, Considering Run for Office

by The York 

, FOXNews.com

Disgraced former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer is considering making a run for statewide office, sources tell The New York Post. 

Disgraced former Gov. Eliot Spitzer has been privately talking with friends about a possible comeback, and is considering a run for statewide office next year, several sources told The Post. 

Less than 18 months after he left Albany in a prostitution scandal, Spitzer has held informal discussions in recent weeks about the possibility of making a bid for state comptroller or the US Senate seat currently held by Kirsten Gillibrand, sources said. 

The hooker-happy Democrat has also discussed his own halfway-decent poll numbers in recent surveys, which have shown him more popular than Gov. Paterson, whose own numbers have tanked. 

"He's weighing it," said one source. 

But Spitzer hasn't shown any interest in campaigning for the office he briefly held, sources said. 

The sources stressed that Spitzer, who also served two terms as state attorney general before his landslide election as governor in 2006, has not engaged in any active discussions with political consultants. 

Reached at his father's real-estate firm, where he has been working since he resigned as governor last spring, Spitzer declined comment. 

Click here to read the full story from The New York Post. 

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