Eliot Spitzer ‘shacking up with de Blasio aide’

Lis Smith, 31, who was hired by the mayor-elect in September as his communications director, has been hosting the hooker-happy former governor at her Soho pad, The Post has learned.

In an embarrassment to de Blasio on the eve of his Jan. 1 inauguration, his flack was caught twice spending the night with the tainted, 54-year-old Spitzer at her Thompson Street apartment building last week.

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Lis Smith, a member of the New York City mayor-elect Bill DeBlasio transition team.Photo: Paul Martinka

The ex-gov showed up late in the evening, once taking her for a romantic dinner and both times slipping out of her building at dawn, a Post reporter observed.

On Wednesday, Spitzer pulled up in a cab a couple doors down from Smith’s five-story walkup at around 10 p.m., wearing jeans, sneakers, a white hoodie and a grin as he walked to the building and rang the bell.

He was buzzed in — and didn’t emerge until 5:45 a.m. With bags under his eyes, he stopped briefly on Smith’s stoop to look at a newspaper that had been delivered before bolting through the predawn darkness to catch a cab near Prince Street.

Smith, a tall, dark-haired beauty, emerged a little after 10 a.m. smiling and looking fresh in a hot-pink coat.

On Thursday night, Spitzer showed up again, looking dapper in a long black overcoat and dress shoes as he walked to her door from Prince Street at around 10 p.m.

He went in and emerged an hour later with Smith, both of them darting about 20 feet into Le Pescadeux restaurant on the ground floor of her building.

Via: New York Post Page 6

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Filner, Weiner, and Spitzer Are All Gone, but the "Democrat War on Women" Continues

A couple of months ago, Republicans found themselves tired of defending themselves on abortion/pay equity issues and eager to change the subject. The new subject: The "war on actual women." While Democrats were out calling any supporter of Texas' abortion law "anti-woman," they were insufficiently angry about the members of their party who couldn't take five steps without sexually harrassing someone or buying a prostitute. A sample, from a July NRSC press release:

[A]s Eliot Spitzer runs for Comptroller and Anthony Weiner for Mayor in New York City – [Sen. Kirsten] Gillibrand remains silent. 

Senator Jeanne Shaheen even proudly accepts campaign contributions from Bob Filner. Surely she must have something to say about his abuse? Nope. Silence.  

Alison Lundergan Grimes? One day the unprepared candidate is talking about empowering women, the next day her political team is empowering disgraced politician Anthony Weiner.

Funny thing: All of those jerks are now out of politics, probably for good. Filner resigned in disgrace last month. New York voters retired Spitzer and Weiner. I checked with NRSC spokesman Brad Dayspring to see whether the line would have to be retired.

"You still miss the point," he said. "It's not about Spitzer, Weiner or Filner – it's about the hypocrisy of a political party willing to accept them as they assault/harass/victimize/exploit women while at the same time claiming their political opponents are anti-women." As an example, he pointed me to the story of Lundergan Grimes failing to take a position on a sleazy state representative. Fair enough—you can use this attack in many forms—but this wasn't the story Republicans wanted this fall. They wanted to goad Democrats into rejecting-and-denouncing on the incredibly famous scandalized New York politicos. Seems like a wash for all sides, as there's absolutely no evidence that the attack was working.

Via: Slate

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