1.  The Return of Client 9? Spitzer Considering Run for Office

With recent polls showing that New Yorkers prefer disgraced Gov. Eliot Spitzer to current Gov. David Patterson, the New York Post reports that Spitzer is secretly contemplating a return to politics. According to the Post, Spitzer is weighing a bid either for state comptroller – a position currently filled by Democrat Thomas DiNapoli—or for the Senate seat now occupied by Kirsten Gillibrand. Spitzer was ousted as governor in March 2008, when it was revealed that he was "Client 9" in a high-profile prostitution bust. Sources close to the former governor have denied rumors of a possible Senate run, and Spitzer himself refused to comment. As recently as July, Spitzer dismissed such speculation in an interview with Vanity Fair: "If by politics you mean running for office again, I've a hard time seeing politics as a career. I wouldn't want to put my family through the agony." Since resigning from politics, Spitzer has been working for his father's Manhattan real-estate firm, and also moonlights as a Slate columnist.

Read original story in The New York Post | Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2009