Bloomberg Will Not Be Running For President
On Thursday Jan. 31st, After a good bit of speculation, Mayor Michael Bloomberg says that he is not a candidate for president and will stay that way and finish out his term as Mayor of New York City.
In a visit to Google’s offices in New York City, Bloomberg said he is not a presidential candidate and that he’ll “stay that way,” a slightly stronger indication that he does not intend to seek the presidency.
For Bloomberg watchers who vigorously dissect every syllable, flinch and facial expression when he answers questions about whether he will seek the White House, the response went a bit further than he has gone in recent months.
Bloomberg, a technology mogul who founded the financial information company that bears his name, spoke to about 250 Google employees at their vast offices in Manhattan.
When asked if he was going to run for president, Bloomberg said, “No. Next question.”
Later, when a reporter asked about whether he might run, he said he is “not a candidate, and I’ll stay that way,” adding “I plan to finish out my term.”
Source: Fox News
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There has been much talk and some hype of current New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg (Independent) making a bid for President of the United States. Bloomberg, who won both of his Mayoral bids as a Republican (2001 and 2005) and switched to Independent status on June 19th 2007 citing difference with the current political climate in D.C.. The switching from the Republican Party to Independent status has only added fuel to the fire, so to speak. Also, this wasn’t his first switcheroo, he was a Democrat until he decided to run for Mayor of New York, he changed to the Republican Party at that time.
It is all over the media from time to time that he has paid for data collection, the same type that he used to win both of his mayoral campaign. It is costly, but he has deep pockets having an estimated worth of over $10 billion. This could greatly help him in a bid for the Presidency, considering he can spend his own money, so therefore he wouldn’t have any of the financial restraints that many of the current candidates have. If he had a campaign, he would easy have the most money of any candidate to spend. There is no limit if you use your personal money (and have no fund raisers), as to how much you can spend. Which would certainly give him a tremendous advantage over previous independent candidates in the past that seemed well liked (Ross Perot 1992, Ralph Nader 2000) and help him overcome some of the problems they faced. There are several Independent parties that are trying to draft(nominate without announcement) him into being their candidate for president.
He has stated when asked that he is ” not a candidate” on several occasions, which is a pretty elusive answer. He did say at Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve TV show 2007 that he “is not running for President.” Which if he sticks to that, it leaves open the possibility of him running as a vice-presidential candidate. In this situation, he could possibly financially back someone running for president. He talked with Democratic Sen. Barck Obama (Illinois) and Former Democratic Sen. Sam Nunn (Georgia), who has expressed interest in running on an independent ticket for President. If this was to come to pass, especially in the case of Obama, one would think that kind of financial back, would greatly increase the chance for winning a White House bid.
On January 7th, he did attend a meeting at the University of Oklahoma, along with other Independent, Democrats, and Republicans. It was a bi-partisan forum to help promote unity. Sam Nunn was also in attendence. Many expected Bloomberg to announce his Presidential Candidacy, which did not happen.
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