It's All "Fair Game" Against Spitzer, Even The "Black Socks"

Eliot Spitzer doesn't seem like he's going to get the same kid glove treatment in the comptroller's race that Anthony Weiner has gotten in the mayor's race:

Running on the Libertarian line for comptroller is Kristin Davis, the madam who arranged hookups for the married Spitzer — known as Client No. 9 in federal documents. Spitzer’s favorite former call girl was Ashley Dupre.

“BRING IT,’’ Davis tweeted of her new rival last night.

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But Stringer will bash Spitzer on his sordid past, insiders said.

It’s all fair game, “even the black socks,’’ one source said.

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 “All you need is Vito Lopez running for public advocate and you call it the Perv Party,” sniped one City Hall source, referring to the former state assemblyman and current City Council candidate who was drummed out of office amid sexual-harassment claims.

I'm not in the habit of agreeing with City Hall sources, but this time the City Hall source has a point.

So far, Anthony Weiner has not gotten the scrutiny over the sexting scandal - including the possibility that he sent sexual communications with a seventeen year old female - that Spitzer is sure to get in his race.

Here's hoping that Spitzer's entrance into the race and the scrutiny over the "black socks" brings some scrutiny to Weiner as well.

As hard as this may have been to imagine a few months ago, New York City may have a mayor who was forced to quit his congressional seat over a sexting scandal (including sending sexual communications to a seventeen year old) and a comptroller who was forced to quit his governorship over a prostitution scandal in which it was said he liked to act "violently" toward the women.

Incredible.