Former New York Stock Exchange Chairman Dick Grasso said a mayoral run by ex-Gov. Eliot Spitzer would only help the Republican candidate in the 2013 race.

Just last week, Grasso, a long-time enemy of the former Governor, said he would consider a run for New York City Mayor if Spitzer dared get into the race, and if police commissioner Ray Kelly didn’t run.

Apparently Grasso has been thinking a lot about this, because he had already done some of the electorate math when he appeared on Fox Business channel today.

“My desire for Eliot to jump into the race is that he would become a great asset for my candidacy. As an independent, and the presumption is that he is not going to seek to be mayor on the Democratic line. He would become a dilutive effect to whomever the Democratic candidate is,” Grasso said.

“If he is there as a 3rd party candidate, and assuming that John Liu doesn’t get the Democratic nomination, but he remains a candidate of the Working Families Party. You get 3 names diluting the traditional Democratic base.”

Here’s the clip. (Fast forward to about 5 minutes)

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