Former Gov. Eliot Spitzer hit the churches yesterday, promising parishioners in Queens that if elected city comptroller, he would fight for “forgiveness for everybody” — all the while refusing to say whether he himself needed forgiveness for any alleged marital indiscretions since the hooker scandal that ran him out of Albany.
Spitzer told parishioners he didn’t want to ignore past sins, but then refused to comment on whether he’s maintaining a mistress behind wife Silda’s back.
“You stressed my transgressions, and I by no means seek to minimize them, ignore them, pretend they were not there. Whatever the media does to amplify them, they are no less significant to me,” Spitzer said.
“You’re not going to get anything from me,” he told The Post after his stop at the Bethany Baptist Church in Jamaica.
Maggie, a 66-year-old churchgoer who listened to Spitzer’s speech, said, “That’s not right. He should talk about it.” She declined to give her last name.