{"id":14434,"date":"2008-02-01T10:30:26","date_gmt":"2008-02-01T15:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/14434.html"},"modified":"2008-02-01T10:30:26","modified_gmt":"2008-02-01T15:30:26","slug":"the-death-of-the-bloomberg-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/the-death-of-the-bloomberg-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"The death of the Bloomberg dream?"},"content":{"rendered":"

We may finally be at a point in which we can stop talking about New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and his subtle-but-not-really interest in launching an independent presidential campaign.<\/p>\n

There have been several reports of late indicating that California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) had been one of the high-profile figures urging Bloomberg to consider a third-party campaign. Of course, the encouragement looks a little hollow now that Schwarzenegger has given his enthusiastic support to John McCain.<\/p>\n

Worse, the Unity08 gang folded their tent to create a Draft Bloomberg campaign, which has an online petition that is yet to generate 5,000 signatures<\/a> — weeks after its launch. Adding insult to injury, one of the effort’s top organizers conceded this week, “Even his good buddies are backing McCain.”<\/p>\n

Worse still, Joe Lieberman, an active Bloomberg supporter during the mayor’s re-election campaign, has said publicly that the mayor no longer has a reason<\/a> to launch a campaign.<\/p>\n

When the New York Observer talked to Bloomberg organizer Karin Gallet about the future, he said<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“He’s not running. He’s convinced me. I’m returning to more obtainable goals like passing my business law class and supporting moderate Republicans! […]<\/p>\n

“We have not mustered up any kind of significant groundswell support. I think Bloomberg is just too good for this country.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Misplaced sycophancy aside, even the mayor seems to realize this isn’t going to happen.
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\nThe New York Daily News reported<\/a> today:<\/p>\n

Mayor Bloomberg appears to be backing further away from a presidential run, telling a group of Google employees in the city Thursday “I am not a candidate and I’ll stay that way.”<\/p>\n

His comments, the firmest denial to date, came the day his biggest political supporter, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R-Calif.), endorsed Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) for the job. <\/p>\n

Although Bloomberg’s aides are meeting with ballot access experts and generating a buzz that their boss will run as a third party candidate, Bloomberg has been coy about his plans. <\/p>\n

When asked yesterday if he was running, he flatly said “No,” but then launched a two-minute speech on his disappointment with the current candidates. <\/p>\n

When a reporter followed up to find out if he might change his mind, Bloomberg said “I am not a candidate and I’ll stay that way … I plan to finish out my term.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It sounds like it’s really not going to happen. Sorry, David Broder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We may finally be at a point in which we can stop talking about New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and his subtle-but-not-really interest in launching an independent presidential campaign. There have been several reports of late indicating that California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) had been one of the high-profile figures urging Bloomberg to consider […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}