More on Bloomberg
January 2nd, 2008
Mayor Michael Bloomberg continued today to fuel the speculation surrounding his presidential ambitions. At a press conference intended to tout the city’s success in persuading high school students not to smoke, Bloomberg first denied he was a candidate and then lit into those who are, according to the Daily Politics. In a thinly veiled reference to GOP candidate Mitt Romney, for example, and his stand on health care, Bloomberg said, “One guy had a plan that we don’t know if it will work, but then he walks away from his own plan.” (By the way, does anyone know what Bloomberg’s health care plan would be?) And he chided Hillary Clinton, who he has praised in the past, for alleged flip-flops on free trade.
Meanwhile, the newspapers kept up the Bloomberg prognosticating, which began when the Washington Post reported Sunday that Bloomberg would attend a closed-door meeting of other people allegedly interested in promoting bipartisan government.
Today’s News asks a number of pundits whether they think Bloomberg will run and whether he could win. On the latter the forecasts range from the “no chance” put forth by Mike Huckabee strategist Ed Rollins to a 50 percent chance from long-time campaign consultant Joe Mercurio.
One of Bloomberg’s first big challenges, writes the Sun, will be explaining his own flip-flop: why he denied he would run, promised to serve out his term as mayor – and then changed his mind. Could it be the mayor’s denials have not been completely sincere? That seems to be the thrust of an article in the Observer, which quotes Neil Giacobbi, a spokesman for the Environmental Defense Fund, as saying he first heard talk of a possible Bloomberg run from Bloomberg aide Kevin Sheekey right after the 2004 Republican National Convention.
For links to much more of this coverage, go to Gotham Gazette’s City Government News.
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