Former Gov. Eliot Spitzer arrived late to and left early from a last-minute “petitioning party” thrown to boost confidence in his surprise comeback bid for city comptroller as he races against the clock to collect the nearly 4,000 signatures he needs to make it onto the ballot ahead of tomorrow’s deadline.
But tonight’s event, held at Sprig, a bar and restaurant in the lobby of Midtown’s Lipstick Building, likely didn’t make much of a dent, with no more than several hundred signatures collected over the course of a two-hour open bar.
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