SCRANTON, Pa. — Hillary Rodham Clinton carefully sidestepped questions Monday about the sex scandal engulfing Eliot Spitzer, her home- state governor and political ally.
“I don’t have any comment on that. Obviously, I am sending my best wishes and thoughts to the governor and to his family,” Clinton said.
The scandal was a blow to Clinton, who recently had intensified her criticism of rival Barack Obama’s relationship with Antoin “Tony” Rezko, a political patron on trial in federal court in Obama’s hometown of Chicago for alleged fraud and corruption.
Clinton and Spitzer have been friendly colleagues since the former first lady first ran for the Senate in New York in 2000. Spitzer was slow to endorse Clinton’s White House bid and has not been among her more forceful surrogates. But he is one of her all-important superdelegates.
