From Advising Hillary Clinton To Making Arguments For Bike Lanes

I don’t know, this Times article sounds to me like it’s a demotion:

In a calculated shift, City Hall has turned to its savviest political strategist, Deputy Mayor Howard Wolfson, to lead a stepped-up public-relations blitz aimed at strengthening support for the lanes and minimizing political fallout for Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg.

It is rare for a deputy mayor to step directly into a municipal dispute over street space. But aides to Mr. Bloomberg say they have been increasingly frustrated in recent weeks over a spate of negative publicity for the bicycle lanes, which have provoked a lawsuit accusing the city of misrepresenting traffic data and widespread criticism for Janette Sadik-Khan, the transportation commissioner.

The city, the aides concluded, had not been aggressive enough in making its case. “We allowed the other side to frame this debate,” Mr. Wolfson said in an interview. “That’s really the bottom line: our voice was missing here.”