Mayor Michael Bloomberg is a big proponent of environmental causes – right down to recycling some of the answers he served up during his long – and now finally ended – presidential flirtation.
Check out this exchange on the mayor’s radio show this morning:
Host John Gambling: "So vice-president? Would you be interested?"
Bloomberg: “Um, vice-president of my mother’s shul in Medford, Massachussets might be an attractive thing to focus on. Nobody’s going to ask me, John. I’ve got 671 days left to go in this job. I think being the mayor of New York City is one of the most exciting things you can do.”
Sound familiar? Yep, we thought so too. It’s the second time in as many days that Bloomberg has played coy when asked about the Veep spot. Not that we think Bloomberg is interested in being second banana on anybody’s ticket – in fact, months ago in a television interview, he definitively dismissed the idea.
But give the newly buzz-less billionaire mayor credit for coming up with a new strategy to boost his national profile faster than you can say: “I will not be a candidate for president.”
Former Bloomberg pollster Douglas Schoen appeared on New York One’s Inside City Hall last night, pushing the “he would make a great vice-president or treasury secretary” riff. Deputy Mayor Kevin Sheekey is scheduled to appear on the show tonight. One guess what he’s going to say.
Ah, just like old times….
Karla Schuster