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It Will Take Death to Pry City Hall From Bloomberg’s Grip

Bucky Turco — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:09:59 +0000

Despite a flurry of speculation about his future employment sparked in part by a few rounds of golf with the president, Mayor Bloomberg said he has every intention of finishing out his term and the only way he’s leaving early is in a coffin. If you spent over $100 million of your own money scoring a gig, you’d wanna stay till the very end too. |NYDN|

Bloomberg Dropped More Than 100 Milli On Mayoral Campaign

Bucky Turco — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 22:09:14 +0000

So just how much did Bloomberg spend to become the Emperor of NYC? This much: $108,371,685.01. |NYDN|

Bloomberg Searched the Globe for Votes

Bucky Turco — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:29:03 +0000

Mayor Bloomberg’s reelection team knew the race was going to be close and so they scoured the planet for every possible vote they could get, reaching out to constituents as far away as Africa. |NYP|

Bloomberg Makes Bet He Knows He’ll Win

Bucky Turco — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:35:21 +0000

Despite last night’s lashing, there’s really no chance that the Phillies will win the World Series, but Bloomberg decided to make a cutesy bet with the mayor of Philadelphia—whoever that is—anyway. If the Yankees lose, the billionaire mayor (and term limit trampler) will don the rival team’s jersey and pretend to paint a mural in the so called City of Brotherly Love. Can you imagine that? Not the Yankees losing, but Bloomberg actually doing manual labor? Me neither. |Philly|

Police Unions Back Most Likely To Win In Mayoral Race

Bucky Turco — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:40:40 +0000

Although they’ve never endorsed him before, all of the five police unions are throwing their support behind Bloomberg, the candidate most likely to win. If you needed the mayor’s money, wouldn’t want to be on the winningÂ team? |CityRoom|

Republican Mike Bloomberg Gets An Endorsement from Democrat Marty Markowitz

Bucky Turco — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 20:39:19 +0000

Slimy Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz, a Democrat, did the unthinkable and endorsed Mayor Bloomberg’s run for a referendum-ignoring third term. |Gothamist|

Republican Hypocrites Demand Apology

Bucky Turco — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 21:45:15 +0000

Republicans are outraged that someone—besides their colleagues—would make such inflammatory comments on the floor of the House and are actually asking the only Democrat with balls, Congressman Alan Grayson, to apologize for articulating their ‘die quickly’ health care plan. |WaPo|

U2 Has a Bono for Bloomberg

Bucky Turco — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:39:36 +0000

Here’s video of Bono endorsing Mayor Bloomberg during last night’s U2 concert at Giant Stadium. He must not be a big fan of public referendums. |Gothamist|

New York Doesn’t Want Obama Screwing Up What We Can Screw Up Ourselves

Bucky Turco — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:56:16 +0000

New Yorkers don’t like their hand being forced, even if it’s their messiah who’s doing the forcing, and according to a new Marist poll: “Of registered voters across the political spectrum, 62 percent say that Obama should stay out of the governor’s race.” |DailyIntel|

Former Public Advocate Mark Green Compares the Vallones To Camelot

Bucky Turco — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 22:14:59 +0000

Apart from being a little sleazy, opportunistic and lifelong Democrats, there’s really no comparison between the Vallones and the Kennedys so zip it Mark Green, these kind of endorsements won’t help you get that public advocate job back. |NYDN|