Eliot Spitzer, the disgraced former governor of New York who resigned from his post in 2008 amid a prostitution scandal, is looking to make a run at the New York City comptroller’s office.
Spitzer told the New York Times, which broke the story, said he hopes New Yorkers are forgiving of past his transgressions.
“I’m hopeful there will be forgiveness, I am asking for it,” he told the Times on Sunday.
But he added that while in office, he could make a difference.
Spitzer has to get 3,750 signatures from registered Democratic voters, his political party, by this Thursday.
“I am going to be on the street corners,” he said. “We will be out across the city.”
In the comptroller’s race, Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer has been considered the front-runner, as the New York Daily News points out, and has garnered a number of endorsements from key groups.
Following his resignation as governor, Spitzer was the co-host on CNN’s “In the Arena,” which ended in 2011.
After he resigned in 2008, Spitzer said: “As I leave public life, I will first do what I need to do to help and heal myself and my family. Then I will try once again, outside of politics, to serve the common good and move toward the ideals and solutions which I believe can build a future of hope and opportunity for us and for our children.”
“I go forward with the belief, as others have said, that as human beings, our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall,” he continued.
