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Bloomberg Says He Won’t Run but Will Be ActiveBringing an end to a long flirtation with a bid for the White House, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has officially closed the door on a presidential candidacy this year.Bloomberg Says He Will Not Endorse Anyone for Mayor in the 2009 Democratic Primary (February 28, 2008) In an Op-Ed article published in Thursday’s New York Times, Mr. Bloomberg wrote that he still believed that a nonpartisan approach was needed to solve the country’s problems and that an independent candidate could win. But he will not run, he said.
“I listened carefully to those who encouraged me to run, but I am not — and will not be — a candidate for president,” Mr. Bloomberg said. “I have watched this campaign unfold, and I am hopeful that the current campaigns can rise to the challenge by offering truly independent leadership. The most productive role that I can serve is to push them forward, by using the means at my disposal to promote a real and honest debate.”
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Recession seen as a boost for BloombergNEW YORK -- The presidential fortunes of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg may hinge on the country's slipping into a recession that would make voters more receptive to a self-made billionaire selling himself as a pragmatic, nonpartisan fiscal manager, economists and political analysts say.Permalink [Category: Bloomberg, Economy]The deteriorating economy, which has begun to overshadow the war in Iraq and immigration as a key issue with voters, plays to what is expected to be the cornerstone of a potential Bloomberg campaign -- a record of financial prudence and efficient, businesslike stewardship of the nation's largest city.
"There's no question that a recession strengthens his pitch," said Maurice Carroll, director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute. "But I think the overall question that he'll be asking, the first question, is 'Can I win?' "
Calls Grow for Bloomberg to Make Up His MindNearly every day a tiny new development trickles out from the stealth presidential campaign of Michael R. Bloomberg, the billionaire mayor of New York.He has talked with Chuck Hagel and Sam Nunn, potential running mates. He has delivered a tart critique of the presidential field. He is conducting intricate polling to test his appeal in all 50 states.
Mr. Bloomberg’s dalliance with the idea of running for president has stretched on and on, with his enthusiastic approval despite the public denials. But even before actually entering the contest, Mr. Bloomberg may have already risked losing something: people’s patience.
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NY Mayor Bloomberg Weighs 2008 RunNEW YORK (AP) -- New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has quietly been polling and conducting a highly sophisticated voter analysis in all 50 states as he decides whether to launch an independent presidential bid, associates said Wednesday.Permalink [Category: Bloomberg]The exhaustive data collection started months ago, and when the review begins shortly, it will provide the data-obsessed billionaire businessman with the information he will use to decide whether to make a third-party run for the White House.
The scope of the research, details of which were revealed to The Associated Press, demonstrates how seriously Bloomberg is considering running for president despite his almost-daily denials that he isn't entering the race. The extensive coast-to-coast research effort shows that Bloomberg is willing to dig deep into his wallet simply to gauge his chances of winning and lining up the proper support network.
Bloomberg indy bid would face many challengesWhen a handful of centrist ex-politicos begin gathering in Norman, Okla., this weekend to talk about forming a “government of national unity” to end Washington’s bipartisan gridlock, there will be one potential presidential candidate in their midst.There also will be only one politician there whose record is far more liberal than that of the dozen or so self-described moderates in attendance.
In both cases, that person is New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
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Political Field Is Panned by BloombergWith unusually dismissive language, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg offered tart assessments of his potential presidential rivals at a news conference on Wednesday, suggesting they are offering meaningless bromides rather than serious answers to the problems confronting the country.On the eve of the Iowa caucuses, Mr. Bloomberg delivered his critique in language that was both sharp and coy, and likely to draw more attention as he prepares to head to Oklahoma for a conference that is widely viewed as a possible launching pad for a third-party presidential bid.
At one point, Mr. Bloomberg appeared to take aim at his predecessor, Rudolph W. Giuliani, saying that candidates need to explain how they will fight terrorism.
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Summit Heightens Bloomberg SpeculationNEW YORK (AP) -- Mayor Michael Bloomberg's participation in a meeting next week of independent and centrist politicians is renewing the ''will he or won't he'' speculation about whether he'll mount a third-party bid for president.Permalink [Category: Bloomberg]On the eve of next week's New Hampshire primary, Bloomberg will meet in Oklahoma with politicians who consider themselves like-minded nonpartisans for a conference described as a warning to the Republican and Democratic candidates.
''It is a message to the two parties: please rise to the occasion. If you don't, there is always a possibility out there of an independent,'' said former Democratic Sen. David Boren of Oklahoma, an organizer of the gathering.
Bloomberg Moves Closer to Running for PresidentBuoyed by the still unsettled field, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg is growing increasingly enchanted with the idea of an independent presidential bid, and his aides are aggressively laying the groundwork for him to run.On Sunday, the mayor will join Democratic and Republican elder statesmen at the University of Oklahoma in what the conveners are billing as an effort to pressure the major party candidates to renounce partisan gridlock.
Former Senator David L. Boren of Oklahoma, who organized the session with former Senator Sam Nunn, a Democrat of Georgia, suggested in an interview that if the prospective major party nominees failed within two months to formally embrace bipartisanship and address the fundamental challenges facing the nation, “I would be among those who would urge Mr. Bloomberg to very seriously consider running for president as an independent.”
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Bloomberg's White House Answers EvolveWhen a big-time politician changes a crucial word in a stock response, people notice. Mayor Michael Bloomberg's denials that he is running for president seem to be getting weaker.In three nationally televised interviews and a news conference over the past week, the billionaire independent dropped the phrase "I'm not running" from his responses, which had been nearly automatic up until then.
Instead, the mayor is going with "I'm not a candidate" more a statement of fact than intention.
It's a slight but noticeable shift from the way he has addressed the rumors, speculations and unending queries about his possible plans to give the 2008 race a whole new look by self-financing a third-party run.
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Bloomberg for President: The Wave Seems to EbbMayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s defection from the Republican Party in June seemed to confirm what many people had long suspected: that despite his protestations to the contrary, the mayor was serious about running for president and was taking steps to mount an independent bid.Go to City Room » But now, despite an elaborate effort to transform Mr. Bloomberg into a global political brand, that excitement seems to have fizzled, as he has publicly retreated from the idea and an opening in the field of candidates has not materialized. Associates say that although Mr. Bloomberg has not completely closed the door on making a run, he seems unlikely to join the race, and is not interested in ensuring someone else’s victory or simply making a point.
“The orchestration of the rumor of the prospect of his running for president and the platform that has given him would overwhelm P. T. Barnum,” said Robert Zimmerman, a public relations executive who is one of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s fund-raisers. “At the end of the day I don’t think Mike Bloomberg wants his legacy to be that he was a spoiler.”
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Presidential bid was media pipedream, Bloomberg saysBLACKPOOL (Reuters) - New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said on Sunday he never considered running for U.S. president and any suggestion he had was concocted by the press.Permalink [Category: Bloomberg, Media]Bloomberg was at the centre of speculation earlier this year when he left the Republican Party that he planned an independent bid for the presidency in 2008, although he denied it.
Asked if he had ever toyed with the idea, Bloomberg told reporters in this northern English seaside resort: "I did not, the newspapers toyed with that ... I'm on record as always saying I was not a candidate for higher, any other office."
Bloomberg at Home With Bill ClintonNEW YORK (AP) -- Mayor Michael Bloomberg has been a Republican and he's now an independent. But on Thursday he cozied up to the Democrats' biggest star.Permalink [Category: Bill Clinton, Bloomberg]Bloomberg joined former President Clinton at the Clinton Global Initiative conference at a session billed as a BBC debate over global warming.
Instead, the pair were in constant agreement, leaving the host, Zeinab Badawi, playing the role of devil's advocate.
Bloomberg: Philanthropy Is His Next JobNEW YORK (AP) -- Whether Michael Bloomberg decides to run for president in 2008, it is clear he is serious about building up his philanthropic giving.Permalink [Category: Bloomberg]The billionaire mayor is expected to disclose shortly that he gave $165 million to more than 1,000 charities in 2006, and is forming an organization called Bloomberg Philanthropies that will organize all of his giving: his personal one-time contributions, his company's donations and the projects undertaken by the new foundation.
He recently purchased two buildings near his home on Manhattan's Upper East Side to use as the headquarters and has begun to assemble a staff that is sketching out some of the foundation's first projects. He is even recreating another Bloomberg bullpen there -- his trademark office arrangement that has everyone sitting together with no walls.
Despite the speculation that Bloomberg will dip into his fortune to bankroll a presidential run, the billionaire insists that when he leaves City Hall at the end of 2009, he will take a vacation and then focus on giving his money away.
Bloomberg on 2008 Race: Time to Get RealNEW YORK (AP) -- New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg posted a statement on his personal Web site Thursday saying ''it's time for something real'' in the 2008 presidential campaign, while still denying that he will run.Permalink [Category: Bloomberg]The posting was sure to reignite speculation that the multibillionaire will enter the race next year as a self-financed, third-party candidate.
''For too long, the American people have been served up empty promises based on what politicians think we want to hear,'' he said in the statement. ''It's time for something real. ... That's what this upcoming campaign needs to be about.''
The former CEO recently dropped his Republican affiliation to become an independent while aides and supporters increasingly talk up the idea of a Bloomberg candidacy. He also has expanded his out-of-state travel, delivering broad but vague plans on national issues such as immigration, poverty, education and the environment.
Sex Suit Could Be Problem for BloombergSexual Harassment Allegations, Blunt Style Could Haunt Michael Bloomberg if He Makes '08 Run....Permalink [Category: Bloomberg]Mayor Michael Bloomberg speaks his mind and that is a big part of his cachet in anything-goes New York.
But new details from a sexual harassment lawsuit he settled in 2000 and other racy comments over the years show how his blunt style could prove a liability if he runs for president as an independent.
Before his election as mayor in 2001, Bloomberg was the target of a sexual harassment suit by a female executive who accused him of making repeated raunchy sexual comments while he was chief executive of his financial company, Bloomberg LP.
Chuck Hagel: Bloomberg RepublicanToward the end of his appearance on yesterday morning’s “Meet the Press,” Chuck Hagel was asked to opine on President Bush’s commutation of I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby’s 30-month prison sentence for lying to FBI investigators and to a grand jury.Permalink [Category: Bloomberg, Hagel]“I was disappointed,” the Nebraska Republican said. “It was not the right decision in my opinion.”
Compared to much of the vitriol that has been hurled the President’s way on this subject, Mr. Hagel’s remark may have sounded tepid. But by the standards of the G.O.P. establishment, it is something approaching seditious.
One-Man Bandwagon Beats Drum for Bloomberg ’08There are no campaign offices or computers or phones. No maps of Iowa and New Hampshire. No donors or interns. And not an ounce of stale coffee — though, in the case of a billionaire candidate, the coffee would probably be fresh and premium blend.Behind the hoopla about Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s possible bid for president in 2008, there is only one man right now: a 41-year-old political consultant who wears his shirt collar open, speaks without periods, and revels in his Irish heritage — which, in his words, extends to worry about making a buck and his belief that Caroline Kennedy and Maria Shriver are the end-all.
His name is Kevin Sheekey, and building Bloomberg ’08 has been his consuming project for the past 19 months, ever since he floated the idea during a television appearance. If a candidacy ever takes off, it will be because Mr. Sheekey devised a game plan that his boss found persuasive and because he prepared political power brokers to see Mr. Bloomberg as a viable independent candidate, one they would not laugh off from the start.
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With Bloomberg on Stage, Harsher Light on GiulianiNEW YORK -- Madison Square Garden was taken over by New York police and their families, all there for the graduation ceremony of 1,097 new officers. A rousing video flashed images of police responding to the Sept. 11 attacks. It was a scene tailor-made for Rudolph W. Giuliani, the former mayor who has made the reduction of crime in New York and the city's response to Sept. 11 the underpinnings of his presidential campaign.Permalink [Category: Bloomberg, Giuliani Archive]But sitting in the prime spot on the dais last week was Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, Giuliani's successor and the man who, many New Yorkers say, threatens to undermine Giuliani's bid for the White House with his own flirtation with a presidential run. The 5-foot-7 billionaire businessman with a Boston accent does not exude the law enforcement authority that the ex-prosecutor Giuliani did, yet the crowd cheered as Bloomberg trumpeted New York's continued drop in crime.
"I didn't really notice crime was going down in my neighborhood until Mayor Bloomberg," said JoJo Shaffer, an actress from Canarsie, Brooklyn, whose partner was graduating. "Before, you didn't see many patrolmen. Now there are more cops, and they tend to be more personable. They talk to people instead of just busting them."
Bloomberg the Philanthropist...But back to Bloomberg. Unless you've been too consumed reading the Washington Post's riveting (but two-years-too-late) four-part, 20,000 word series on Cheney, you know that New York's billionaire mayor is playing footsie with running for President as an independent. And you've probably heard the punditchatter about about how Bloomberg could become '08's Ross Perot. However, here's another reality check:while Perot got 19% of the vote, he didn't get a single electoral vote. And as we've learned the hard way these last few years, the College controls the endgame. (That's another pro-democracy reform we need to fight for--check out the National Popular Vote campaign at Fairvote.org) If Bloomberg is as savvy and sharp and concerned about the country's future direction as he says he is, he'd be wise to stick to his promise to devote his life to philanthropy when he leaves the mayor's office.Permalink [Category: Bloomberg]
Marketwatch: Everything You Need To Know About NYC Mayor And Possible Presidential Candidate...Sure, Bloomberg hasn't declared himself as a presidential candidate — yet. But I'm reasonably sure he will. He lives for the big stage and loves to beat the odds. He did it in the early 1980s when he left Salomon Brothers with about $13 million in his pocket to launch Bloomberg L.P., an information company for Wall Street traders and other professionals. He then expanded it and added an ambitious news-gathering operation.Permalink [Category: Bloomberg]It could be argued that one reason that Reuters Group and Thomson Corp. decided they would merge several weeks ago was to crush Bloomberg, their chief rival.
Know this about Bloomberg: He is the smartest guy you're likely to meet. He is profoundly goal-oriented and has a habit of thinking ahead of everyone else.
Bloomberg Acknowledges Heart SurgeryNew York Mayor Michael Bloomberg frequently talks about health — but never publicly revealed that he had heart surgery before running for mayor, a fact that emerged this week amid increased attention about his possible presidential aspirations.Permalink [Category: Bloomberg]The billionaire media mogul, who furthered speculation about his presidential ambitions last week when he declared himself an independent, did not disclose the surgery in 2000; he had two coronary arterial stents inserted to relieve a blockage in his heart. The operation was first reported by Newsweek this week and confirmed Thursday by Bloomberg's spokesman, Stu Loeser.
Bloomberg, 65, is now said to be in excellent shape. He has long been interested in public health, pushing for citywide bans on trans fats and smoking and donating millions of dollars to medical research and health causes. Before his election in 2001, Bloomberg was chairman of the board at Johns Hopkins University, his alma mater, where the school of public health bears his name.
Bloomberg Blasts Both PartiesThis is news? So what else is new? "The potential '08 independent presidential candidate criticized both the Republican and Democratic parties." Wow! Stop the presses.
NEW YORK — New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who became an independent last week, showed his non-partisan colors Wednesday by criticizing both political parties. Bloomberg, who left the GOP and is asked almost daily about running for president, said Wednesday that neither the Republican nor Democratic Party "stands for anything."Permalink [Category: Bloomberg]
Wow! If Mike Ran, He Might Be First To Burn $1 BillionMayor Michael Bloomberg is the proud owner of the two most expensive non-Presidential campaigns ever run. The $74 million he spent to run for Mayor in 2001 and the $85 million in 2005 gave him unprecedented access to New Yorkers’ airways, newspaper pages, mailboxes and personal preferences.Permalink [Category: Bloomberg, Money]Those political juggernauts were limited to the five boroughs. In his potential conquest of all 50 states, Mr. Bloomberg has said privately that he could spend upward of $500 million, and his aides don’t exactly resist suggestions that his expenditures could approach a full billion.
For political professionals, the prospect of a billion-dollar Presidential campaign—made somewhat more real by the Mayor’s recent change of registration from Republican to independent—is the stuff of fantasy.
Bloomberg Candidacy Could Provide History LessonMichael Bloomberg has announced that he is not a Republican. I could have told him that a long time ago. The billionaire mayor of New York City was a lifelong Democrat before switching parties in 2001 and spending fifty million of his own dollars to be elected mayor in the days following 9/11. He was handily re-elected to a second term in 2005, but is term-limited from seeking a third, which has fueled speculation that he wants to be the first third party candidate elected president of the United States since Abraham Lincoln defeated the Democrats and the Whigs. It also could provide Americans with a real history lesson.Permalink [Category: Bloomberg]Bloomberg’s main claim to fame these last six years is that he banned smoking in public places and the use of trans-fats in New York City restaurants. He is a supporter of abortion on demand and favors special rights for homosexuals. He also is about as hostile to the Second Amendment as any politician in America, having once threatened to use his own money to sue firearms manufacturers he claimed were “flooding the city with guns.” In every way one can think of, hizzoner is an unabashed liberal.
NRA-Linked Law Firm Gathers File On Bloomberg Anti-Gun CoalitionSAN FRANCISCO — A California law firm with ties to the National Rifle Association is using public records laws to compile a dossier on the activities of a national group Mayor Bloomberg set up to lobby Congress on gun issues.Permalink [Category: Bloomberg, Gun Control]Several mayors who have signed onto the Mayors Coalition Against Illegal Guns in recent months report being greeted with formal freedom of information requests from Trutanich Michel LLP, which is based in Los Angeles and San Diego.
"It's the first FOIA request on any issue I've worked on since I've been mayor," Mayor Otto Lee of Sunnyvale said at an event Mr. Bloomberg attended last week in San Francisco. "It's not at this point terribly annoying, but it has unfortunately disrupted the distribution of services to the community."
Russert's Panel of Bloomberg Skeptics Misses the PointOn the left, it is increasingly fashionable to trash David Broder and his political pronouncements, which sometimes reflect an unusual and baffling level of sympathy for the White House.Permalink [Category: Bloomberg]But on “Meet the Press” this Sunday, Mr. Broder, the supposed “dean” of the Washington press corps, demonstrated that on at least one topic he’s well ahead of his fellow journalists.
At issue was Michael Bloomberg’s potential presidential candidacy and as his fellow panelists, PBS’s Gwen Ifill, The Wall Street Journal’s John Harwood and Roger Simon of The Politico, took turns expounding on The 646 Reasons Why An Independent Can Never Be Elected, Mr. Broder jumped in.
“You guys are much too dismissive,” he told them.
Mike run will help Hil: pollIn a hypothetical, three-way, all-New Yorker 2008 election smackdown, Mayor Bloomberg would hurt Rudy Giuliani and throw the election to Sen. Hillary Clinton, according to a new CNN poll.Permalink [Category: Bloomberg, Hillary Clinton Archive, Polls]Bloomberg comes in a distant third as an independent in the presidential sweepstakes, according to CNN's Opinion Dynamics poll.
Bloomsday...The official lobby of the partisanship scolds is a group called "Unity '08"--a collection of graying eminences from both parties who are calling for a bipartisan presidential ticket, perhaps led by Bloomberg. Their rhetoric appears to be targeted at people who enjoy kittens, rainbows, and David Broder columns. Specifically, Unity '08 says its ticket will run on "ideas and traditions which unite and empower us as individuals and as a people."Permalink [Category: Bloomberg, Election Process Archive]Well, that's nice. Unfortunately, when the partisanship scolds get a little more specific, things tend to break down. The first problem is that they can't agree on whether partisanship is making Washington pay too much attention to public opinion or too little. Bloomberg says the former: "When you go to Washington now, you can feel a sense of fear in the air--the fear to do anything, or say anything, that might affect the polls, or give the other side an advantage." Unity '08, on the other hand, says the latter: Neither party, it claims, "reflects the aspirations, fears, or will of the majority of Americans."
Bloomberg's Knightly AmbitionsHe is a short (5-foot-7) Jewish man from Massachusetts in a mostly Christian nation that is moving south and west. He has so little conventional star power that as mayor of New York City he can take the subway to work without other straphangers' really noticing. While he can be dryly witty, he sometimes turns wooden behind a podium. On the other hand, he can spend half a billion (if not more) of his own dollars to get elected. He is beholden to no interest groups. And he is very, very competent.Permalink [Category: Bloomberg]
They Like Mike (Bloomberg)Did anyone ever believe that Michael Bloomberg was a Republican? I think not. Registering as one six years ago was only a move that allowed him to pass through the primary process with no opposition rather than as a Democrat who had to fight for the nomination. It also allowed him to benefit from the renewed popularity of then-Mayor Rudy Guiliani. Bloomberg’s ties with Wall Street in a post-9/11 New York City and his business skills made him a good fit.Permalink [Category: Bloomberg]Bloomberg has a good record as Mayor of New York. The economy for workers and for tourists has come back strong. Violent crime has been reduced, especially murder. He has begun to make some progress in taking back the public schools, but he hasn’t broken the teachers union, yet. Most people expected New York to be hit again by a terrorist in the years since 9/11 and we all know the city is still a big target. All in all, he has been a successful mayor.
Bloomberg could have Perot-like effect on 2008 race...With all the new attention since his party switch, Bloomberg's support seems to be on the rise -- 17 percent in a three-way contest against Clinton and Giuliani.Permalink [Category: Bloomberg, Polls]That puts Bloomberg in third place, but 17 percent is still an impressive showing for a candidate who's not even running. Seventeen percent nearly matches the 19 percent of the vote Ross Perot got the first time he ran in 1992.
Even if he doesn't win, some people think Bloomberg could affect the outcome of the race. "If he runs there will be two liberals in the race versus one Republican. So unlike the Perot phenomenon that really hurt Republicans, this has a chance to hurt Democrats," Republican strategist Scott Reed said.
That's not happening yet. Right now, Bloomberg would take votes about equally from Hillary Clinton and Rudy Giuliani, and the outcome would still be close (41 percent for Clinton, 38 percent for Giuliani).
Bloomberg Is a Wild Card for the NationHe no longer brags about his dating exploits or shows off his impolitic side. He has largely reined in his temper with reporters and loosened his manner with voters. But Michael R. Bloomberg, New York’s once-improbable mayor, would still be a highly unlikely presidential contender.Permalink [Category: Bloomberg]A zealot for privacy, he slips away to Bermuda on weekends to practice his golf game. Divorced with a steady companion, he frequently indulges a louche sense of humor, joking at a dinner one night that if Salma Hayek joined him at the official mayor’s residence, he might actually live there. And he still likes to end his evenings with a nightcap out, leading to the occasional public admission of having had perhaps a merlot or two too many.
New Yorkers salivating over ‘subway election’What a time to be a New York pol.Permalink [Category: Bloomberg, Election Process Archive, Giuliani Archive, Hillary Clinton Archive]Three of the leading presidential candidates – judging, at least, by column inches in the largely New York-dominated national media – are New Yorkers: Its junior senator and its current and former mayors.
Gregg Birnbaum, political editor of the New York Post, calls the idea of a three-way White House race pitting Sen. Hillary Clinton against former Mayor Rudy Giuliani and Mayor Michael Bloomberg “a political perfect storm” – for his newspaper, at least.
It's personal, as the Bloomberg and Giuliani duke it out"No friend of Rudy Giuliani" was a line candidate Mike Bloomberg used as an attack against a rival in 2001. The same can now be said of Bloomberg.Permalink [Category: Bloomberg, Giuliani Archive]Every step Bloomberg takes toward running for President puts him another step closer to a collision with his former mentor. It's a clash in the making for some time, and it's more personal than political. Forget policy differences. It's a macho battle for bragging rights, with the White House thrown in as a bonus.
The tension turned publicly nasty back in January, when Bloomberg accused Giuliani of feeding his then-ailing mother on the public dime by using the Gracie Mansion chef.
The Line: Can Anyone Measure the Bloomberg Effect?Just when you thought the 2008 presidential race couldn't get any more interesting, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg unaffiliates from the Republican Party -- further stoking speculation that he will run as an independent for president next November.Who has the most to fear from an independent Michael Bloomberg candidacy for president? (AP photo)Which candidates are hurt or help most if the billionaire - businessman - turned - populist politician does indeed jump into the race? The honest answer is The Fix doesn't know.
The last significant independent candidacy for the White House was Ross Perot's in 1992. Perot definitely helped Bill Clinton win states like Georgia, Colorado, Nevada and Maine.
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Unity08 and Bloomberg: Perfect marriage?Few in the political world are more keenly interested in the ramifications of "Mike's Big Move" -- as New York's Daily News proclaimed Mayor Michael Bloomberg's decision to sever his ties with the Republican Party -- than former Carter White House official Gerald Rafshoon.Permalink [Category: Bloomberg, Third Parties]He and his partner, Hotline founder Doug Bailey, are the proud parents of Unity08, a group conceived to offer an alternative to next year's Democratic and GOP nominees by building a "coalition from the middle" through an online convention.
Bloomberg's PoliticsMichael Bloomberg says he isn't running for President, and maybe we should believe him. But his recent preoccupation with the state of national politics, combined with his announcement Tuesday in California that he is leaving the Republican Party to become an independent, keeps the speculation on a low boil, which is probably where the New York City mayor wants it.Permalink [Category: Bloomberg]
A Run, or the Runaround?Bloomberg, Other Non-Candidates Master Art of Being Vague
It was clear that New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg was enjoying himself yesterday as he toyed with the press corps there, taking 20 minutes of questions about the city's 311 telephone information system at a news conference just a day after he bolted the Republican Party, but offering not a clue about his intentions.Permalink [Category: Bloomberg]So goes the long tease.
As National Candidate, Bloomberg Would Have to Multitask...if the mayor’s tentative tiptoeing into a national campaign accelerates into a marathon, inevitably the question of whether he can run for president and effectively manage the city simultaneously will arise. Can he avoid diminishing the legacy he is still constructing because he will be distracted by a national campaign?Permalink [Category: Bloomberg]Precedent seems to say no. The consensus, though, is that Mr. Bloomberg, because of his immense wealth, competent staff and willingness to delegate work, may have a better chance of pulling it off.
Giuliani May See a Rival in SuccessorSeven weeks after the 2001 terror attacks, Rudolph W. Giuliani gave a last-minute electoral nod to a billionaire media mogul running for mayor.Permalink [Category: Bloomberg, Giuliani Archive]Michael R. Bloomberg, his beneficiary, prevailed, Mr. Giuliani was a kingmaker, and their smiles lasted about 18 minutes. Aides to both men have sniped for years, and Mr. Bloomberg has carefully distanced himself from Mr. Giuliani, suggesting of late that the former mayor left him with a huge budget deficit.
Now Mr. Bloomberg has stuck a gilded toe in the presidential waters, creating a most unwelcome sensation for every candidate: the uncertainty that comes with knowing a newcomer might shower a half-billion dollars on his own campaign.
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