A candidate like Spitzer — whose name is known throughout the city
because of the prostitution scandal that ousted him from office five years ago — would typically have no trouble gathering signatures.
Eliot Spitzer became governor after a high - profile stint as attorney general before he was forced to resign
because of a prostitution scandal.
Not exact matches
Spitzer's ordinary sin — any number
of politicians have survived
prostitution scandals — ended his tenure as governor
because his governorship was already going terribly.
Since then, New York has seen a governor, Eliot Spitzer, depart office in a
prostitution scandal and a steady lineup
of state lawmakers departing their jobs
because of convictions on everything from bribery to theft
of state grants to embezzlement or, in what appears to be a reliable failing in Albany, sexual harassment
of staff members.