“I’ve got a better job, I think, than the president.”
Man Is Said to Be Arrested in Bid to Kill Government Workers With Bomb
The authorities have arrested a man who law enforcement officials believe was planning to build and detonate a bomb in New York with government workers as the target, a person briefed on the case said on Sunday.
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly of the New York Police Department, and Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr.were expected to announce the charges against the man at 7:30 p.m. at a news conference at City Hall.
We’ll cover the press conference, all.
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Mike Bloomberg's Marie Antoinette Moment | by Matt Taibbi
Bloomberg’s main attraction as a politician has been his ability to stick closely to a holy trinity of basic PR principles: bang heavily on black crime, embrace social issues dear to white progressives, and in the remaining working hours give your pals on Wall Street (who can raise any money you need, if you run out of your own) whatever they want.
He understands that as long as you keep muggers and pimps out of the shopping areas in the Upper West Side, and make sure to sound the right notes on abortion, stem-cell research, global warming, and the like, you can believably play the role of the wisecracking, good-guy-billionaire Belle of the Ball for the same crowd that twenty years ago would have been feting Ed Koch.
Anyway, I thought of all of this this morning, when I read about Bloomberg’s latest comments on Occupy Wall Street.
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Courtroom sketch of @MikeBloomberg testifying in the Haggerty trial. (via Azi)
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Please do not lean on the doors. (via flickr/nycmayorsoffice)
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“Mayor of New York Michael Bloomberg says city has “dodged the bullet” of Hurricane Irene”
He always seems to get gun control in there somewhere. yup.
“Mr. President, now don’t panic. Stay calm. Just slowly put down the coffee and slip out of the booth. There is a cobra… right… next… to you.”
Ahahahahahahaha. Well played.
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All political Michaels do this?
“A new Public Policy Polling survey finds that just 19% of Americans have a favorable opinion of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg while 38% see him unfavorably.
In a hypothetical three way contest with President Obama and Mitt Romney, Bloomberg registers at only 11% with Obama getting 44% and Romney 38%.”
“Can’t win.”
New York City Michael Bloomberg, when asked by Fox News’ Chris Wallace on why he won’t run for president.
Giuliani to campaign with Bloomberg
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani will campaign with his successor, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, this weekend in Brooklyn.
The failed Republican presidential candidate is also considering a run for governor.
Giuliani leaned even more to the right as he burnished his national Republican credentials. That gets mixed reviews from New York City residents, who are overwhelmingly Democratic.
At a debate this week, Bloomberg was booed when he said Giuliani would make a good governor…
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