Sure To Play Well Upstate During The General Election

Michael Bloomberg is the greatest secessionist mayor since Fernando Wood there’s not a damn thing Kevin Sheekey can do to stop it:

Lending lighthearted support to a City Council proposal that the city secede from the state, Mayor Bloomberg said yesterday the plan makes a point that is “well taken.”

The city sends the state about $11 billion more each year than it receives back in services, an imbalance that is prompting Council Member Peter Vallone Jr., a Democrat who represents parts of Queens, to introduce legislation to lay the groundwork for the city to break away from the state.

“I can’t believe he thinks it is going anyplace, but I think he’s right in joking about it,” Mr. Bloomberg said yesterday.

The mayor warned that if the state tries to squeeze too many tax dollars out of the city, it would no longer be a cash cow.

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Mr. Vallone told The New York Sun that his idea is “most definitely not a joke,” but added that he is encouraged that the mayor “likes the fact that I am thinking about it.”