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Bloomberg for President?

Unaffiliated group may have affiliated backing

By Marc Tracy|October 14, 2010 2:00 PM|5comments
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Mayor Michael Bloomberg earlier this month.(Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

When, in the summer of 2007, I dropped in on one of the weekly get-togethers of the New York City chapter of something called the Committee to Draft Michael Bloomberg at Manhattan’s Old Town Bar, the only draft was the beer. But are things different this time? The Wall Street Journal reports that the current incarnation of the Committee has received the tacit backing of Kevin Sheekey, Bloomberg’s former deputy mayor and top adviser.

On the other hand, Hizzoner said in August. “I will rule out a run for president. I have the best job I could possibly have.” Maybe Rahm Emanuel will have to be our first Jewish president after all.

Bloomberg Supporters Plot Draft [WSJ]
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  • Larry Levine

    This has to be a joke.
    Hizzoner doesn’t realize there are people living in New York City.
    Why give him the rest of the country to ignore?

  • http://www.empax.org ET

    I wish Mayor Mike could be President and do to the country what he’s done here: Make it more transparent, more efficient, more citizen-oriented, safer, healthier, more sustainable, with a clear vision of the future and a sense of civic pride.

    The guy knows how to run a complex system, and how to cut through the petty politicking that permeates any big organization, especially government ones.

    Not that this is what gets people elected in this country. Too many of us are too afraid to admit that ideology (pick one) only works on paper, and that the world is too complex for narrow views and canvas solutions.

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