Did Bloomberg Cause 9/11?

Hizzoner’s opponents are questioning whether an image of Mayor Bloomberg against a backdrop of the view of Brooklyn and Queens from the World Trade Center is ghoulishly capitalizing on Sept. 11:

The re-election campaign of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg decided yesterday to stop using a photo, featured on the cover of thousands of its political fliers, that appears to depict Mr. Bloomberg atop the World Trade Center and credits him with “securing the future of all New Yorkers.”

Stu Loeser, a spokesman for the Bloomberg campaign, said yesterday afternoon that the photo had been taken from atop the trade center before it was destroyed on Sept. 11, 2001. He later called back to say he could not be certain, although a second, similar photo purchased by the campaign had definitely been taken from the towers.

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Mr. Bloomberg’s Democratic opponent in the fall election campaign, Fernando Ferrer, declined to comment on the flier last night. Yet a spokeswoman for Mr. Ferrer, Christy Setzer, said about the flier: “We as a city came together on Sept. 11, and it’s wrong for anyone, Mike Bloomberg included, to use that day for political gain.”