{"id":1164,"date":"2006-06-13T09:47:16","date_gmt":"2006-06-13T17:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/06\/bloomberg_id_run_as_an_independent.html"},"modified":"2006-06-13T09:47:16","modified_gmt":"2006-06-13T17:47:16","slug":"bloomberg_id_ru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/06\/bloomberg_id_ru.html","title":{"rendered":"Bloomberg: I’d Run As An Independent"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hizzoner knows that idle speculation about your apparent Presidential aspirations is the best way to build up the Cult of the Mayor<\/a>:<\/p>\n

After months of steadfastly dismissing rumors that he’s exploring a White House run, Mayor Bloomberg over the weekend openly mused about mounting an independent presidential candidacy.<\/p>\n

Asked if he’s contemplating a presidential bid, Bloomberg didn’t give his usual flat-out denial.<\/p>\n

Instead, he offered a response that is fueling speculation he may go for it in 2008: “Absolutely not. And anybody who’s running will say exactly that.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Little did he know it (yeah, right!) but the Norwalk Hour was within earshot at the event where he said the remarks, a fundraiser for Connecticut Representative Chris Shays:<\/p>\n

“I could never get the nomination from either party,” the mayor told some 85 Shays supporters, explaining that he’s too liberal for conservatives and too conservative for liberals.<\/p>\n

But money wouldn’t be an issue, Bloomberg added.<\/p>\n

The Hour reported that “in the context of a humorous anecdote,” the billionaire mayor said he’d have no problem coming up with the hundreds of millions of dollars needed to finance a third-party run.<\/p>\n

But the mayor acknowledged that “running as an independent would be a daunting thing.”<\/p>\n

He told the crowd he could make a move to sell his business, Bloomberg LP “in the next year or so.” Company spokeswoman Judith Czelusniak said there are no “definitive plans” to do so at this point.<\/p>\n

Stu Loeser, the mayor’s spokesman, insisted Bloomberg’s position hasn’t changed. “He’s not running,” said Loeser.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Previously on Is the country really ready for a (Jewish-born*!) New York mayor with a really nasal accent?<\/a><\/p>\n

*The Forward seems to argue<\/a> that he’s Jewish in the tradition of Robert Moses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hizzoner knows that idle speculation about your apparent Presidential aspirations is the best way to build up the Cult of the Mayor: After months of steadfastly dismissing rumors that he’s exploring a White House run, Mayor Bloomberg over the weekend openly mused about mounting an independent presidential candidacy. Asked if he’s contemplating a presidential bid, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}