Eliot Spitzer, the former New York governor who resigned amid a prostitution scandal in 2008, went on Twitter and officially announced he is running for New York City’s comptroller office.
“Yes, I’m running for NYC Comptroller,” he wrote on his @SpitzerForNYC account after several media outlets, including the New York Times, reported that he would. The “office is ripe for greater & more exciting use of the office’s jurisdiction,” he added.
Spitzer also wrote that “I have looked at this race and decided that now is not the time to sit on the sidelines or go along to get along.”
Spitzer needs to garner 3,750 signatures by Thursday from registered Democrats, his political party.
After he resigned as governor 2008, Spitzer, who previously served as New York’s attorney general, hosted CNN’s “In the Arena” from 2010 to 2011.
“I’m hopeful there will be forgiveness, I am asking for it,” he told the Times on Sunday night.
Front-runner comptroller candidate Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer slammed Spitzer, saying that he will “try and buy personal redemption with his family fortune,” reported the Times.
CORRECTION: An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated Spitzer needs to garner 3,750 votes in stead of signatures.
