Consider Mayor Mike...

“That's what I'm talking about: impinges on the health, ban it. And don't give me the whole car driving thing. Those are accidents. You don't "accidentally" eat french fries or float carcinogenic smoke into my lungs. Now, if you want to talk about the car thing from a pollutant level, we can discuss that.”

“And the trans-fat thing is more a ban on businesses selling non-food as food anyway.”

“...[A]s Bloomberg himself put it in a New York Magazine interview last year: "What chance does a five-foot-seven... billionaire Jew who's divorced really have of becoming president?"

http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN2145980420070621”

“Amnesty is all needed to keep Mike from the WH.”

“He hates cars, cats, cocktails and cigarettes, dogs, donuts and dancing, but he'll spend a billion to make you love him.


http://thehill.com/byron-york/no-yearning-for-bloomberg-2007-06-22.html

No yearning for Bloomberg
By Byron York
June 22, 2007

Can anyone show me evidence that Americans are hankering for a Michael Bloomberg presidential candidacy?

I know the poll numbers in which about 70 percent of the American people say the country is headed in the wrong direction.

And I know the numbers that say most Americans disapprove of the job being done by both Republican George W. Bush and the Democratic Congress.

Those certainly suggest that voters aren’t happy with either party. But the throw-the-bums-out mentality is a fairly common one at any time, although more widespread these days, in the fifth year of the Iraq war.

In any event, do the polls suggest that any significant number of voters wants the current mayor of New York on the presidential ballot as an independent?

John Zogby, the pollster, says, “After more than a decade of harsh wrangling, likely voters tell me they are tired of the vicious partisanship. In a national telephone poll last month, 80 percent said it was ‘very important’ that the next president be a person who can unite the country, and 82 percent said the same about the need for a competent manager.”

Bloomberg, Zogby concludes, “wins on both counts.”

But weren’t voters in 2000, after the Lewinsky scandal and the Clinton impeachment, telling pollsters that they were tired of the partisanship in Washington? In large part, George Bush based his campaign on that unhappiness.

And didn’t those voters then split in almost identical numbers between the Republican and Democratic candidates?

OK, you say, what about the polls showing that Republicans are unhappy with their choices for president?

That, fortunately for Republicans, appears to be changing.

In April, NBC and The Wall Street Journal found that just 53 percent of Republicans surveyed said they were happy with the field that included Rudy Giuliani, John McCain and Mitt Romney.

But this month, when the NBC/Journal poll included Fred Thompson in the list of candidates, 73 percent of Republicans said they were happy with the field.

For their part, Democrats have long been pretty satisfied with their choices.

And by the way, why is Bloomberg an independent? We know that he was never really a Republican. He only took the label to run for office after Giuliani.

But why not run for president as a Democrat, since Bloomberg was a Democrat for all his life before running for mayor? As it is now, for the second time, he appears to be changing his political affiliation solely for the purpose of running for office. Not a terribly attractive trait.

After Bloomberg’s party switch, The New York Times editorial board said it was a “relief to stop watching Mr. Bloomberg pretend to be a Republican.”

“We were glad to hear Mr. Bloomberg say the presidential candidates should be talking about how to move forward in Iraq, which applies to those who take cover behind President Bush’s policies as well as those who believe, as we do, that the focus should be on ending the war,” the Times continued.

“Mr. Bloomberg was right when he said Americans care ‘about who’s going to pay their Social Security; they care about who’s going to pay their medical care; they care about immigration, about our reputation overseas.’ And, unlike politicians in both parties, he talked about America’s out-of-control gun problem.”

What is the Times saying? Are the presidential candidates in both parties not talking about a way to move forward in Iraq? About medical care? About immigration and our reputation overseas?

Come on.

It is true, however, that Bloomberg could become the only candidate to make a big deal of the gun issue, which Democrats have repeatedly found is a big loser at the polls. Go on, Mr. Mayor. Give it a try.

Now, let’s not shortchange Bloomberg. It should be said that he did a good job safeguarding some of the breakthrough accomplishments of Rudy Giuliani’s term as mayor.

That’s not nothing; under different leadership, the city might have done some serious backsliding after Giuliani.
But if you view things that way, why not just vote for Giuliani himself?

The obvious conclusion from all this is that there is no truly compelling reason for Bloomberg to run. If he chooses to go ahead, he’ll rely not on a groundswell of public opinion, but on his personal fortune, estimated at $6 billion, to make it possible.”

“The dissatisfaction with the Red (Bloods) and Blue (Crips) parties will Probably be at an all time high just about time for the next election. I'm not saying that Green, Pink or Yellow may swoop in take a few seats and maybe even the one the Scrub occupies, but I haven't seen an opening like this one in my life.”

“But why not run for president as a Democrat, since Bloomberg was a Democrat for all his life before running for mayor? As it is now, for the second time, he appears to be changing his political affiliation solely for the purpose of running for office. Not a terribly attractive trait.


Ever think that maybe the guy REALLY wants not to be too closely aligned to any particular party? It's been his governing style. To me, that means more than an opinionated cut and paste, which is all this amounts to...


Now, let’s not shortchange Bloomberg. It should be said that he did a good job safeguarding some of the breakthrough accomplishments of Rudy Giuliani’s term as mayor.

Pure BS without any specifics...


The obvious conclusion from all this is that there is no truly compelling reason for Bloomberg to run. If he chooses to go ahead, he’ll rely not on a groundswell of public opinion, but on his personal fortune, estimated at $6 billion, to make it possible.”

Ain't this some sh_t??? We go through election after election knowing the real need for campaign finance reform. And we get a putz like this to throw a negative spin on the guy because he's wealthy. GWB comes from a wealthy family. Why was there no condemnation of him? Because he used the the money of special interests and matching federal funds for his campaign? I don't get it. Thanks for presenting your opinion (through the writing of another). Well thought out on your part! lolololololol”

“Campaign Reform...Tree thats a load and you know it. There will always be loopholes.

The only true solution is to make a searchable list ON THE WEB that every politician must update Weekly. It will list, Name, address, occupation etc of each contributor over say $50.00.

It will be required to be maintained. Violations will be added up. If the violations of not listing a name exceed a certain dollar amount (total not listed) then the candidate is removed from the election pure and simple. If say a politician (not that this would EVER HAPPEN) gets millions from a Buddhist Temple that is a front for the Red Chinese....and fails to list it...HE IS GONE.”

“Can't we all just get aloan?”

“This red neck theater's full of pooped corn.”

“That's the best you can do?

I rest my case...
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“WHAHAHA....yeah. but we know the definitions of the words we use.”

““Campaign Reform...Tree thats a load and you know it. There will always be loopholes.

I agree. I was just saying there is a need for it. Never said I believe it will happen. It was tantamount to my critisism of the writer's statement...”

“This typifies the mentality of partisanship. It tells me that unless a candidate is defined by a party, voters like you are lost. When was the last time you actually addressed an issue here?”

“Bloombreg really is a threat to you wingers, maybe he can pry the legs of this political wasteland apart and breed a new and more enlightened america. Speaking of corn.”

“All I'm asking is why these people hate the guy so much and why he would not make a viable candidate. The lack of substance of the responses supports your conclusion, Uncliff...”

“LOL..More likely he will be like that Handgrenade with the bad haircut who gave us SLICK for 8 years...remember Ross Parott )or Ross Perot”

“If a bloom comes out of the election on the merits of its' own money, I guess we'll know who to blame if things turn south.”

“XL, again your selectivity scanned over Mr. Naders help in 2000. 'We all live in a libby relevant world, brothers to the end ,yes I know'.”

“Nader yeah I love him...calling for more controls on where you can live...while ...and I love this..LIVING IN THE HOUSE HIS SISTER OWNS AND LETS HIM STAY IN....WHAHAHAHAHAHA. But like REV Jessie, Slick Willie, Rev Al, Ted Kennedy and the rest of your clan (INCLUDING DEAD Air America) you let them slide on the hypoctisy.”

“Arf-arf, yip-yip, bow-wow....!!”

“Full Moon came early this week?”

“I'll see you a full moon and raise you my trousers!
last edited: 6/25/07 1:31:03 PM”

“Nader is a cammillian and can spoil both ways and will determine the direction as the money flows. If special interest didn't have this design they'd be like voters-ignored.”

“August 1, 2007
Mayor Takes the Subway — by Way of S.U.V.
By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM
He is public transportation’s loudest cheerleader, boasting that he takes the subway “virtually every day.” He has told residents who complain about overcrowded trains to “get real” and he constantly encourages New Yorkers to follow his environmentally friendly example.

But Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s commute is not your average straphanger’s ride.

On mornings that he takes the subway from home, Mr. Bloomberg is picked up at his Upper East Side town house by a pair of king-size Chevrolet Suburbans. The mayor is driven 22 blocks to the subway station at 59th Street and Lexington Avenue, where he can board an express train to City Hall. His drivers zip past his neighborhood station, a local subway stop a five-minute walk away.

That means Mr. Bloomberg — whose much-discussed subway rides have become an indelible component of his public image — spends a quarter of his ostensibly subterranean commute in an S.U.V.

“I never see him,” said Namela Hossou, who sells newspapers every morning at the downtown entrance to the mayor’s nearest stop, at 77th Street, four blocks from the mayor’s house. “Never, never.”

The mayor’s chief spokesman, Stu Loeser, was asked in an interview yesterday whether being driven to an express station distanced Mr. Bloomberg from the experience of the average Manhattan subway rider. Mr. Loeser replied, “Who is the average Manhattan subway-goer? I don’t think it’s an answerable question. The mayor rides the subway like anyone else. Zips his card through, stands on the platform, and waits for a train to come.”

A spokesman for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority chuckled when asked how common it is for Manhattan residents to be driven to the subway. “Where would you drive from in Manhattan to a subway station? That would be pretty crazy,” the spokesman, Jeremy Soffin, said. Told of the mayor’s morning routine, he added, “Most people don’t have chauffeurs.”

And most people don’t have reporters from The New York Times watching their travels, as Mr. Bloomberg did for five weeks. Almost every morning, two Suburbans waited outside his East 79th Street town house, sometimes with engines idling and windows up, until their charge was ready to leave. Uniformed police officers and the mayor’s security detail flanked the doorway as Mr. Bloomberg emerged and ducked into one of the waiting vehicles.

As they head to the express subway, they pass two No. 6 local stops, at 77th Street and 68th Street. They pull up to the 59th Street station, across the street from Bloomingdale’s.

Mr. Bloomberg, who entered politics as a self-made media mogul, struck a populist note early in his mayoral campaign by pledging to use mass transit. Since starting at City Hall he has invited reporters, photographers and television news anchors to ride along with him.

The image of the billionaire straphanger has paid enormous political dividends. One transit group designated him the “MetroCard mayor,” and Newsday lauded him as the city’s “regular Joe Commuter.” Shortly after he took office, The New York Times declared Mr. Bloomberg “the first subway-riding mayor.” And his tales from the underground — for example, getting stranded on a northbound No. 4 train for half an hour — have made for useful anecdotes at his news conferences.

Mr. Bloomberg’s use of the subway to get to work appears to have declined over time. In January 2002, he reported taking the train all but one day of his first three weeks. Nowadays, it appears, the S.U.V. is his primary mode of transportation. Based on the reporters’ observations, the mayor took the subway to work about twice a week.

Mr. Loeser said the mayor “walked to the subway when he first started as mayor, and he stopped doing it when cameras staked out his house every morning and walked with him.”

Informed that reporters never noticed any photographers milling outside of the mayor’s town house over the past five weeks, Mr. Loeser replied, “So you’re saying the solution worked.”

Being driven to the 59th Street station shaves about a third off the mayor’s commuting time, based on a reporter’s test runs. It also saves him aggravations others cannot avoid, like taking the local and transferring to the express.

“He goes to various stops depending on where he is going and where he is coming from,” Mr. Loeser said. Asked why the mayor would not take the train from the closest station to his house, Mr. Loeser deferred to his previous answer, “I’ve said, he takes the train from various stops.”

More recently, the mayor has emphasized his use of mass transit as part of his PlaNYC environmental platform, and to promote his controversial congestion pricing proposal. (Under that plan, an initiative partially intended to reduce greenhouse emissions from traffic in Manhattan, each of Mr. Bloomberg’s Suburbans would have to pay $4 a day for the right to drive below 86th Street.)

The Suburbans are “selected, owned, and maintained” by the N.Y.P.D., which organizes security for the mayor, according to Mr. Loeser. Asked why the mayor required two sport-utility vehicles, Mr. Loeser declined to comment.

Environmentally speaking, “the Suburban is one of the worst, if not the worst” sport utility vehicles on the market, said Dan Becker, who studies vehicle emissions for the Sierra Club. “It’s way up there.”

But the mayor’s S.U.V.’s come equipped with FlexFuel engines, which allow the use of either gasoline or E85 ethanol, a cleaner, corn-based fuel. Mr. Loeser said the mayor’s vehicles “use ethanol at all times when he is in New York City, and whenever it is available when he travels.”

According to federal figures, a 2007 Suburban 1500 fueled by ethanol ranks below the average vehicle in terms of carbon dioxide emissions. An ethanol-fueled Suburban produces 9.2 tons of greenhouse gas emissions per year, placing it around the midpoint of vehicles, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.

At least one public transit advocate interviewed yesterday said it did not matter how long the mayor actually spent on the subway — but that he was seen using the system.

“To me, I think it’s terrific that he has made a point of taking the subway in a more public statement way,” said Paul Steely White, executive director of Transportation Alternatives.

An NBC News segment on Mr. Bloomberg, broadcast June 12, described him as “the diminutive mayor who commutes by subway.” On camera, Brian Williams joined the mayor for a morning commute on the No. 4 train.

At one point, as Mr. Bloomberg discussed his preference for subway travel, Mr. Williams remarked, “And even in your S.U.V., there’s no getting through traffic as fast.”

The mayor, in a grave voice, concurred: “Not a chance.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/01/nyregion/01bloomberg.html?ei=5065&en=992d7a10323c6cd1&ex=1186632000&partner=MYWAY&pagewanted=print

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Just another Gore.”

“I think the term you were looking for is RINO”

“Nope. He's a 'Do as I say, not as I do' kind of guy.”

“Don't know if you saw my post about this new Congressman we elected...the guy beat out one of the old establishment Republicans. His first shocker vote was for the States rights on Medical Mj use.

He told the paper he doesn't support or agree with MJ use...but it is a States Rights issue...(LOL) the old bluebloods are having coniptions down here.”

“Show me a pig that isn't a polutician,I mean, show me a politician that isn't a pigatician, I do know what i mean.”

“Well thank God you do”

“All these guys need to go, deomcrats and republicans. Clean the house out”

“Is there any part of a New Yorker's daily life this guy doesn't want to control?


Mayor Bloomberg Declares War On ... Salt

http://wcbstv.com/politics/bloomberg.war.on.2.920343.html”

“Mayor Bloomberg's grim doomsday budget cuts 23,000 city jobs
By KATHLEEN LUCADAMO
DAILY NEWS CITY HALL BUREAU

Updated Friday, January 30th 2009, 8:53 AM


Mayor Bloomberg's bare-bones budget for next year will slash the city work force by 23,000 and drastically increase its sales tax, officials revealed Thursday.

The plan hinges on the shaky prospect of help from the federal and state governments and from stubborn unions.

The mayor will introduce his executive budget today; it also calls for cuts in big-ticket construction projects and for city employees to cough up cash for health care, according to those briefed on the plan.

Homeowners will lose their $400 rebates - but won't be hit with new property taxes, a proposal City Council members had vowed to block.

.....more.....
http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2009/01/29/2009-01-29_mayor_bloombergs_grim_doomsday_budget_cu.html”

“Fearless Staten Island Chuck bites mayor

Perhaps lashing out against budget cuts for local zoos, or perhaps just because he wasn't ready to be awakened from his winter nap, Staten Island Chuck took a nibble out of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's hand during this morning's Groundhog Day festivities at the Staten Island Zoo.

"His hand was nicked," a Bloomberg spokesman said. The mayor is up to date on his Tetanus shot, so he simply washed his wounded finger and put on a bandage.
........
http://www.silive.com/news/index.ssf/2009/02/fearless_staten_island_chuck_b.html

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I hope they give Chuck a medal......and a rabies shot.”

“Is this guy positioning himself to be the first King of the United States?”

“He'd put an end to sat- cable noose, eh?

What pottie is he swimming in.
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“Confirmed: Michael Bloomberg is a moron.

http://hotair.com/archives/2010/05/03/bloomberg-hey-maybe-the-times-square-bomber-was-upset-about-the-health-care-bill/”

“Do you turn around anf bend over when you post this HOTAIR? LMAOAS”

“New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg explained Wednesday why he believes taxes need to be raised across all income levels, not just the wealthy. �I think it�s fair� everybody�s in this country together,� the billionaire philanthropist said on MSNBC�s Morning Joe.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1111/67942.html”

“Mayor Mike says doubling class sizes would be a good idea..sounds like he's still "smoked up". Lol

http://m.nbcnewyork.com/nbcnewyork/pm_107640/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=e6PjrvS9”

“If video games were all math problems we'd need no teachers, schools or sideline experts on education. OWS=Occupy War Spending!”

“uncliff = t*lt????

Neither one had the ability stay on subject.”

“Bloomberg's delusions of grandeur are taking their toll "I have my own army in the NYPD, which is the seventh biggest army in the world."

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/11/30/mayor-bloomberg-calls-the-nypd-my-own-army/”