New York, Feb 08 : Ex-madam Kristin Davis, who was linked to former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, is set to run for the post herself.

Former Nixon, Reagan and Bushes operative Roger Stone, who is labeled "trickster", is helping the former escort empress in the run.

"This is not a hoax, a prank or a publicity stunt. I want to get her a half-million votes," the New York Daily News quoted Stone as saying.

He revealed that Davis wanted to run against her former client and ex-Governor Eliot Spitzer to draw attention to the fact that she served nearly four months on Rikers Island while Client 9 escaped indictment.

Stone, who informed the FBI in 2007about Spitzer's link with prostitutes, said: "This started out being about Spitzer. But now that it looks like he won't run, Kristin still wants to use her celebrity to highlight a reform agenda."

Meanwhile, Davis spoke about her credentials at a Libertarian Party convention on the lower East Side, last weekend.

She said: "I was valedictorian of my high-school class. I worked 10 years in finance. I was vice president of a hedge fund. I went on to build a multimillion-dollar business from scratch."

Davis tagged "taxation as confiscation," and insisted that the legalization of prostitution and marijuana could provide 2.5 billion dollars in revenue to help close the budget gap.

She ended: "I'm a natural Libertarian."