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"Eliot Spitzer has announced plans to return to political office. The former governor of New York has spent the last three years hosting TV shows for CNN and Current TV. Five years ago, Spitzer resigned as New York governor after being involved in a prostitution scandal, but is now planning to run for the office of city comptroller. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m hopeful there will be forgiveness; I am asking for it,&amp;quot; he told the New York Times. Spitzer plans to use his own money for the campaign, while he needs a minimum of 3,750 signatures from registered Democratic voters by Thursday (July 11). &amp;quot;I am going to be on the street corners,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;We will be out across the city.&amp;quot; Spitzer was forced to resign in 2008 after it was revealed he was a client at the high-end prostitution ring the Emperors Club. Two years later, he embarked on a TV career, co-hosting CNN&amp;#039;s Parker/Spitzer with Kathleen Parker. He left the show in 2011, before fronting In the Arena for five months. In April 2012, he hosted Viewpoint on Current TV, replacing Keith Olbermann&amp;#039;s Countdown. He announced his departure from Current In January. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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