New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and political adviser Kevin Sheekey “are meeting with pollsters and consultants to assess the mayor’s chances as a third-party, independent candidate,” Newsweek reports.
Said Sheekey: “There is no Bloomberg campaign. But we have certainly reached out.”
Whether he runs “depends on who the nominees are for the two major parties, and how much cash Bloomberg is willing to spend.”
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[...] Except we didn’t see this with David Dinkins, nor have we seen it thus far with Mike Bloomberg, who is now considering an independent run for president. No one has suggested that Bloomberg will face temperament obstacles, as Giuliani faces. The Giuliani tenure at City Hall was, until the attacks of Sept. 11, a blur of a combative mayor fighting with political opponents, civil rights leaders, voters and reporters. (There is tape; voters will hear and see it.) Those who disagreed with him could encounter the kind of scorn one might expect from an irascible New York cabbie. “There is something deranged about you,” Mr. Giuliani said in a three-minute lecture to a New Yorker who called in to his weekly radio show to complain about the city’s ban on ferrets as pets. [...]
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