{"id":8487,"date":"2006-09-16T10:55:09","date_gmt":"2006-09-16T14:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/8487.html"},"modified":"2006-09-16T10:55:09","modified_gmt":"2006-09-16T14:55:09","slug":"an-independent-57-jew-from-new-york-billionaire-whos-divorced-for-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/an-independent-57-jew-from-new-york-billionaire-whos-divorced-for-president\/","title":{"rendered":"An independent 5’7″-Jew-from-New-York billionaire who’s divorced for President?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rumors surfaced a couple of months ago about New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s possible interest in a [tag]presidential[\/tag] [tag]campaign[\/tag] in [tag]2008[\/tag]. Publicly, [tag]Bloomberg[\/tag] has denied any interest and vowed not to run. Privately, he’s thinking about it — and talking to others<\/a> about the possibility.<\/p>\n

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has always denied it, but CBS 2 has learned the details of a secret meeting, involving the mayor, to discuss a possible run for the White House. […]<\/p>\n

CBS 2 has learned the details of a private dinner for the mayor that was held at an apartment building on Manhattan’s Upper East Side last month. There, he spent the evening in serious discussions about the viability of a White House run.<\/p>\n

Sources told CBS 2 Bloomberg brought three deputy mayors with him, and proceeded to talk through every angle of a presidential run. By the end, the group had zeroed in on his running as an independent in 2008. And, the sources said, he seemed intrigued.<\/p>\n

The dinner was held at the home of Michael Steinhardt, a legendary Wall Street hedge fund manager and a Bloomberg friend. He brought along Al From, head of the Democratic Leadership Council, which played a part in Bill Clinton’s rise to power in 1992.<\/p>\n

Sources said the man who put Bloomberg together with Steinhardt and From was New York City Schools Commissioner Joel Klein.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A couple of points. First, From’s participation in this meeting, if accurate, is disconcerting. The head of the DLC has been criticized for many years for not taking the Democratic cause seriously — meeting with a Republican about an independent presidential campaign suggests the criticism is well-founded.<\/p>\n

And second, I’m having a hard time understanding exactly what Bloomberg is thinking here. As the NYC mayor reportedly told one of the people at his private meeting, “How likely is a 5’7″-Jew-from-New-York billionaire who’s divorced and running as an independent to become [tag]president[\/tag] of the United States.”<\/p>\n

I’d say it’s pretty unlikely, isn’t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rumors surfaced a couple of months ago about New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s possible interest in a [tag]presidential[\/tag] [tag]campaign[\/tag] in [tag]2008[\/tag]. Publicly, [tag]Bloomberg[\/tag] has denied any interest and vowed not to run. Privately, he’s thinking about it — and talking to others about the possibility. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has always denied it, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8487","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=8487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}