It was the same in the beginning. Michael Bloomberg announced his mayoral run in 2001 in a television commercial and even refused to be interviewed by a New York City reporter who caught up with him the same day it was airing. Today, he uses the Op Ed page of the New York Times as his platform to say definitively that he won't run for president.
There's talk of his role in national affairs and national candidates. How about the day job? Political trajectories tend to decline after announcements like this one. Look at Gov. Mario Cuomo. Bloomberg still has two years left to do things like straighten out whichever bus schedules and budgets the school chancellor has most recently screwed up, find out why a shell company was doing the demolition at the Deutsche Bank building, explore some of the oddities of the building inspection process, like that....Not as sexy, filled with public-relations hazards. What will Deputy Mayor for Political Promotions Kevin Sheekey be doing?
Dan Janison