SYRACUSE -- She used to be known as a madam, but soon Kristin Davis hopes people will be calling her "Madame Governor."
Davis is on the campaign trail spreading her message and attempting to pick up votes. She made at stop at the Palace Theater in Syracuse Tuesday night.
Davis is best known as the Manhattan madam who admitted to supplying Eliot Spitzer with call girls when he served as Attorney General and Governor.
After serving four months in jail, she entered politics. Her platform includes legalizing casino gambling and marijuana. She says it would bring in billions of dollars for the state.
"It's time that, rather than ignore these black market businesses, that we find a way to put standards in place to legalize and regulate them," says Davis.
She's also calling for ethics reform, introducing "Spitzer's Law" that would require indicted politicians to give up their pensions.
Hardly anyone showed up for her rally at the Palace Theater, but her campaign is getting attention, like from Watertown Mayor Jeff Graham.
Graham collected about 150 signatures for Davis, and says she has his vote.
"I may not agree with every issue she has out there, but I think she's a sincere person, a bright person, and she's got some real injustices she's trying to bring light to," says Graham.
Davis says, so far the campaign has seemed like a "Boys Club." She hasn't been allowed to debate the major candidates, but she says she's ready for a tough political battle.
"If you've ever spent any time in jail and especially in solitary confinement, in order to get through every single day, you have to be a fighter, so I'm definitely in it to win," she says.
If she doesn't win the race, she hopes to at least get 50,000 votes. That would give her party, the Anti-Prohibition party, permanent ballot status.
She plans to make an appearance in Watertown on Wednesday.
