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Photograph of Mayor Bloomberg and Lance Armstrong by Harry Cabluck/AP
The day after giving his State of the City address, Mayor Bloomberg headed out of town and to capital of the Lone Star State. Sure, Bloomberg did have a press conference with Lance Armstrong and former Surgeon General Richard Carmona, but more interesting was his meeting with Ross Perot's former campaign manager!
The billionaire mayor had a "private" meeting with Clay Mulford, who is a "ballot access expert." A ballot access expert would be necessary in Texas, where an independent candidate (whose name sounds like Schmichael Schmoomberg) would only have between March 5 and May 12 to gather 74,100 signatures of Texans who have not voted in a primary in order to get onto the ballot. (Luckily for him, Bloomberg has resources.)
Bloomberg was his usual self when asked about Texas's early ballot deadline:
"I just said, I'm not a candidate — it couldn't be clearer. Which of the words do you not understand? People have urged me to do it but I'm not a candidate, so that's where it is. Let's take some questions that can add to the discourse."Bloomberg, this is why the Wall Street Journal is calling you Mayor McTease! And note, back in 2006, New York magazine writer John Heilemann said that Bloomberg, if he ran for president, would essentially be a sane Perot.
Bloomberg's press conference with Armstrong and Carmona was to push cancer back into the national debate. Armstrong, cancer survivor (and two-time NYC marathon participant), said, "In my opinion, whoever wants to be president of the United States of America ought to address the number one killer in this country." Not that Bloomberg is thinking about running for president, as Bloomberg said, "I have said repeatedly, while a lot of people have urged me to run for president, ... I am not a candidate. But I am going to use the bully pulpit of my current position to speak out."
Later today, Bloomberg will be Los Angeles, joining California Governor Arnold Schwazenegger and Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell to make some sort of infrastructure announcement (they're speaking at a Park & Ride lot).
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First, stop being an overgrown tease and just state your intentions.
Second, put your time and effort into this city.
Third, prepare for the gubernatorial race in '10. Period.
Lance looks like he got the same dye job as Creed Bratton from The Office did when he was trying to look young and hip.
Does Bloomberg have charts and graphs, too?
Bloomberg has made his intentions very clear. He's waiting to see who the likely nominees are from the two major parties are going to be and that will likely take until March.
Lance Armstrong managed Ross Perot?
It looks like Lance is in lurv with Mayor Bloomberg.
Yeah, it looks like someone photoshopped in his hair
A HAIR CLOSER
Newest signal
Candidacy's near:
Bloomberg's started
Dyeing his hair.
ha ha! Creed Bratton. Creepiest character ever. He once said. "being a cult leader pays better, but being a cult member was more fun."
Maybe Bloomberg's looking to be someone's VP. VP isn't exactly the do-nothing, never-heard-of-you position people once thought it was anymore.
Imagine a Clinton-Bloomberg ticket, or an Obama-Bloomberg ticket. Could be very interesting.
Maybe the man is not lying about not wanting to be president!
There is absolutely 100% no way that Bloomberg wants to be VP. He could have more impact running his foundation and giving away billions of dollars. Keep on imagining a Clinton-Bloomberg ticket because it ain't gonna happen. If you had said Bill Richardson has been running for VP the entire time I would agree. And because there is no imagination left in politics these days I would start printing Clinton-Richardson '08 bumper stickers.
Lance for president.
if the election comes down to clinton-romney - bloomberg is running. obama wins, bbg waits 4 yrs. same for mccain. if it's gooliani, then he runs too.