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They say he runs the city like a business, so it's only fitting that after a poorer-than-expected performance in last week's election, Mayor Bloomberg's campaign workers are afraid they won't get big bonuses this year. In past elections, the billionaire former bond trader and media mogul has paid out-of-pocket bonuses of as much as $400,000 — "a highly unusual perk in municipal politics, a world not typically associated with lavish pay," the Times reports. But after defeating Democratic rival Bill Thompson by just 4.6 percentage points, campaign workers are starting to worry about paltry bonuses.
“It’s crossed our minds,” said one campaign aide, who spoke to the Times on condition of anonymity, for fear of losing a bonus altogether. “How could it not?” When Bloomberg won in 2001 by 2.4 percentage points, he gave out $850,000 in bonuses including $100,000 to both campaign manager Kevin Sheekey and aide Patricia Harris. After his 2005 reelection by a whopping 19.4 percentage points, Sheekey brought in $400,000 and Harris, for less than three months of work, netted $350,000.
So far, Bloomberg hasn't announced much — or how little — he plans to dole out. “I haven’t even thought about that,” said the Mayor, who was met with a chorus of boos during a brief speech at the end of the Yankees parade yesterday.
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Cry me a f*cking river
Why in the world would they worry about that? They are with big money, a world where what you "deserve" has little to do with results.
Anyway, voter response indicated that Bloomberg's poor performance had to do with the term limits issue and massive overspending, neither of which is their fault.
Bloomberg's narrow win should be attributed to his decision to rescind term limits rather than his campaign workers inability to get out the vote.
Wait a second. Does this mean that these people were working for Bloomie for reasons other than that they think he's the best man for the job?
I'm shocked.
I think positive feedback from wallstreet stock exchange
ha! so it is all about the money.
anyone else noticed the phone's been quieter the past couple of days?
no more calls from 000-000-0000, 111-111-1111 and 917-000-0000.
Shit, if I knew I could make a few hundred Gs, *I* would have gladly taken the position of Mayor Mike's official phone spammer.
Stupids...They should have got a job at AIG for a big bonus....Obama guaranteed that we all lend a helping hand to those poor unfortunate souls.
If people are not buying CRAP-IN-A-CAN (Now with more crap!), maybe the solution isn't blaming the PR firm.
What a FAKE NEWS STORY.
Yeah, right: Bloombag cares about "MERIT"?
What next, the media tells us Bill Clinton is faithful husband?
Watch. Their bonuses HAVE to be as high or higher,b/c Bloombag's ENTIRE MO in life has been "pay ten times more for ANYTHING than a smarter person would pay"----whether it be his pathetic campaign spending or the waste of our TAXDOLLARS.
(EX: Bloombag bought land around Citi Field using YOUR tax dollars. He only paid 3 TIMES more than market value---with YOUR cash, suckers. EX: Mike and Joe Sitt / THOR scammed you with variations on insider trading, and Sitt is going to sell his Coney Island property TO US for only 4 times more than he paid. What are you gonna do about it? NOTHING. Mike should give bonuses to the sheep who keep him out of jail.)
When Hitler and the Nazis rose to power, almost no one stood up to them.
If humanity won't stand up to super-evil, there is not a 1% chance you people will stand up to our mini-dictator.
It even slams you all as sheep in the Declaration of Independence. Re-read it.
Nelson Rockefeller did the same thing.