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Eliot’s hypocri$y on rival

This is rich: Eliot Spitzer is jabbing Dem rival Scott Stringer for taking money from special interests — many of them groups Spitzer solicited as attorney general and governor.

For example, Local 1199 of the SEIU health-care union gave at least $50,000 to Spitzer in 2003 when he was attorney general and $2,000 to Stringer, the Manhattan borough president, in 2011.

“I don’t have time to raise money. He has taken a lot of money from special interests and that’s fine, that’s how campaign finance works,” Spitzer said on WPIX/Channel.

Spitzer is self-financing his 11th-hour campaign.

Stringer fired back, calling Spitzer a hypocrite for accepting nearly $5 million from corporations and $8.3 million from political-action committees when he ran for governor.

“He was a special-interest vacuum cleaner when he was fund-rasing in Albany,” Stringer said.

Meanwhile, Spitzer refused to release his tax returns, while Stringer released five years’ worth.

A Spitzer spokesperson said he would release the information, but didn’t say when.