Paterson Ready To Rumble With Bloomberg

Last week, Mayor Bloomberg blamed Albany and Governor Paterson for giving him no choice but to cut programs and thousands of workers from the city's budget. Now, Paterson is reportedly rolling up his sleeves, because he's tired of being kicked around. A "source close to the Paterson administration" tells the Post's Fred Dicker, "Mayor Bloomberg is not going to treat the governor poorly, with disrespect! We've got just as many muscles as the mayor and his people do—and if they want a street fight, then so be it."

Besides the budget slam, Paterson is allegedly pissed off about other apparent disses. Example one: Bloomberg's people allegedly didn't want Paterson to visit the Staten Island Ferry crash scene. The source claims, "They were saying, 'It's no big deal,' he shouldn't go because the mayor wasn't in New York City and they didn't want the governor to be there." (Bloomberg was probably in Bermuda; Paterson did ride the ferry.)

Example two: During the 2 a.m. press conference to discuss the attempted Times Square car bomb, the sources says, "When the governor was with the mayor during the car-bomb press conference, the mayor didn't even have the class to ask the governor if he wanted to say anything—and he was there at 2:30 or 3 in the morning. You have the governor of the state of New York at the podium with the mayor, and the mayor doesn't ask him if he'd like to say a few words? The chutzpah of the mayor and his people."

The source says things don't have to be so bad, "We'd prefer to have a cordial working relationship with the mayor. But if you're going to act out or act up, then the governor is going to respond in kind. We're not going to be viewed as pushovers by anybody."

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By Jen Chung in News on May 10, 2010 10:15 AM

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newport27

bloomberg's been abusing this city enough. the only solution is a class suit, taking back the billions he manipulated from the city and sending his ass to prison for life.

John L

Bloomberg is the emperor of NYC, he conquered this city when he, against the will of the people, bought off everyone in town and got himself another term. The worst part is that he can do no wrong because he has the media in his pocket. No one dares to go against Bloomberg's Billions. Of course he has high approval ratings because he's the media's darling after all he's a media mogul himself, he knows exactly how to play the game. So he spends on obscene amount of money on the reelection and all of NY's media outlets profit from it and now he can do whatever he pleases and no one questions it. He pushes the agenda of his rich real estate developer friends, hooks up their kids with ridiculous salaries straight out of college, etc and no one dares question him. If any other politician had off shore accounts they'd be hell to pay but Bloomberg simply says "mind your business" and they do as he says. If another politician has caught going working four days and spending the next three on an island somewhere (17 weekends since December) the media would jump on it but again he says "its none of your business" and everyone shoos away. Imagine another politician was discovered to have set up fictious companies for the purpose of "laundering" campaign money? That would pose a real problem, unless your name is Michael Bloomberg, then it's ok. The NYPD is fudging the numbers, crime is going up and no one dares question the mayor or his commissioner. The mayor walks around with his head in the clouds thinking of new pet projects, new pedestrian walkways, while threatening to lower the number of cops, teachers, close down senior citizen centers, get rid of firehouses, closing of hospitals and the media says nothing. Traditionally the media has been the gatekeepers they make and break politicians by questioning and doing investigative work but they continually give Bloomberg and his administration a free pass so he does whatever he pleases. This city is his playground, a billionaire's version of an ant farm. What do you buy a billionaire who has it all? The greatest city in world of course.

Wza

This.

Guest

"and if they want a street fight, then so be it."

now we're talking!

Sha

Let me just ask you all this: would you rather have Patterson run NYC than Bloomberg?

FelixtheCat & Christine Quinn'

Paterson since I am not a NYC real estate develope

Jesq

"We're not going to be viewed as pushovers by anybody" Really? It just goes to show what a bubble of denial that the governor and his cronies operate under. To say that they were viewed as "pushovers" by the majority of their constituency is a pretty mild understatement.

thelexiphane

"You have the governor of the state of New York at the podium with the mayor, and the mayor doesn't ask him if he'd like to say a few words?"

At least Bloomberg didn't see the blind black man standing near him and ask the governor for a shoe shine, because I doubt it hasn't crossed his mind.

FelixtheCat & Christine Quinn'

Also I guess for Bloomberg, NYC residents injured in the ferry crash aren't as important as his boytoys in Bermuda.

FelixtheCat & Christine Quinn'

When it was reported, 2 years ago, that N.Y. Governor David Paterson said that, “Mayor Michael Bloomberg (NYC) is a nasty, tantrum-prone liar was 100%. Bloomberg was kissing Patterson's ass during his 3rd reelection. But now that Bloomberg got what he wants he is disrespecting others.