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Thrice mayor of New York City? | Michael Tomasky

Source: The Guardian

Nov 03, 2009

Summary

Thanks to his wealth and lack of strong opposition, Michael Bloomberg is poised to be re-elected New York's mayor

I remember when Michael Bloomberg was first thinking of running for mayor. I was a political reporter in New York at the time, and evidently considered important enough to court, so I was summoned up to his office one day to have an off-the-record chat.

I don't remember much, except that I got the sense of a guy who didn't know a lot about politics. He was a pretty liberal Democrat, but he decided to run as a Republican because the Democratic primary was too clotted with time-servers who'd dispensed 20 years' worth of booty to local community groups and the like. And he was – history has obscured this – a terrible candidate at first: clumsy, leaden, horribly dull.

Well, $250m can change things. By the time he wins re-election Tuesday night against Democrat Bill Thompson, Bloomberg will have spent nearly that much money on his three mayoral victories (and a lot more besides, which we'll get to).

He's still horribly dull, but he's now the farthest thi

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