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Do I have to say it again?

May
14

One more time, he’s not running. For president. For governor. For anything.

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg didn’t wait for the question to be asked at a news conference this afternoon. He jumped right in, cutting off the political speculation, while answering a question about his plan for congestion pricing cars entering NYC.

Bloomberg was giving his assessment of his meetings today with legislators and whether Albany sounded amenable to the plan.

“Given that I have 965 days left on the job (pause) … and I am not running for governor and I am not running for president,’’ Bloomberg began. Later when pressed about Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno touting Bloomberg as gubernatorial material, the mayor said: “I think Senator Bruno was joking about it. I am not running for governor. Never—I have the greatest job in the world …’’

Similarly, Bloomberg said U.S. Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., “was probably joking’’ when he suggested the mayor run for commander in chief.

This entry was posted on Monday, May 14th, 2007 at 4:48 pm by Yancey Roy.
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3 Responses to “Do I have to say it again?”

  1. the consultant

    but chuck hagel is a principled republican who with
    or without mike bloomberg is going to have an
    impact on this year’s presidential race…either
    as a republican or a third party indpendent candidate
    and if he should decide to run…I will support his
    candidacy

  2. EDELMAN is a DEMOCRAT

    mike’s definition of “principled republican” = liberal

    mike is right is saying that the republican party is good when is comes to fiscal policy. he is wrong when he attacked their social policy and he is even more wrong when he praises the social policies of liberal democrats. in order to be a republican, you can’t be a one-trick pony. mike is clearly that. his own party doesn’t want him and the democrats are too serious to play with him.

  3. the consultant

    it’s funny to see everyone define republican there way
    if you are not pro life..you are not a republican simply
    put…that of course must account for why the party
    is doing so well in new york..it also must account for
    why a pro choice candidate from new york is leading
    the pack..not only is rudy pro choice but anti gay bashing
    and like mike bloomberg into controlling guns used only to
    kill people like almost all of our police departments and
    they certainly aren’t “liberal” The problem with many
    right wingers is that they are religious zealots not
    republicans..Eisenhower, Nixon, Ford, and even Reagan
    and certainly Bush 41 were all good republicans who did
    not push for the conservative social agenda…
    Chuck Hagel opposes the war..and for very solid reasons
    the war was based on wrong information, mis information
    cherry picked by the neocons to justify invading a
    country which posed no iminent threat…read the tenet
    book..Hagel has a mind of his own…and by the way
    he is probably more socially conservative than I am
    but there are lots of other issues that are far more
    important to this nation than those..so my advice
    to the poster who thinks I am a democrat is to
    join either the conservative or right to life party
    if you don’t already…they would be reflecting your
    views as their core values…we republicans have
    other opinions

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