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Bloomberg mulls a $1 billion run
The Washington Times ^ | May 14, 2007

Posted on 05/14/2007 8:48:42 PM PDT by Rennes Templar

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is prepared to spend an unprecedented $1 billion of his own $5.8 billion personal fortune for a third-party presidential campaign, Ralph Z. Hallow will report Tuesday in The Washington Times. "He has set aside $1 billion to go for it," a long-time business adviser to Mr. Bloomberg tells The Times.

"The thinking about where it will come from and do we have it is over, and the answer is yes, we can do it." The $1 billion would represent about one-fifth of Mr. Bloomberg's personal fortune. "Mike has been meeting with Ross Perot's most senior people about how they did an independent run in 1992," the Bloomberg business adviser said.

Republicans tell The Times that they are taking the Bloomberg threat seriously, while the mayor's associates say they are fielding calls from staffers for Republican Sen. John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign, which the Bloomberg adviser compared to "a biplane on fire and spiraling down."

(Excerpt) Read more at washtimes.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bloomberg; buyingthepresidency; giuliani; hillary; rudy
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To: Rennes Templar
Let him split the loony-bird vote with HillaRudy.

Any conservative FOURTH party candidate would win.

41 posted on 05/14/2007 10:19:39 PM PDT by Atlas Sneezed (Your FRiendly FReeper Patent Attorney (...and another "Constitution-bot"))
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To: Rennes Templar

He is nothing more than a very wealthy Jewish version of David Dinkins. I do hope he runs because he can only skim support from the Democrats and about 100,000 RINOs from the N.E. Run, Mikey, run.


42 posted on 05/14/2007 10:22:45 PM PDT by MarkT
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To: Jim Robinson

New York City voters would prefer current Mayor Michael Bloomberg over former Mayor Rudy Giuliani for president of the United States.

Ofcourse they would. They want him the hell out of the NYC mayors office any way possible.


43 posted on 05/14/2007 10:30:26 PM PDT by Proud_USA_Republican (We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good. - Hillary Clinton)
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To: pissant

This an election not deal for the use cars salemen with thsi girly mentality, your type hinder Hunter in my eyes if it is fools like you who would vote for him!

I will vote for a man who thinks above the belt!


44 posted on 05/14/2007 10:36:30 PM PDT by restornu (As I have Love you Love One To Another ~ "Go Mitt":)
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To: airborne

What kind of man spends $1 billion of his own money to get a job that pays $600,000?

You mean 400,000. That is even worse. But to answer you question...a guy with a big ego.


45 posted on 05/14/2007 11:09:32 PM PDT by napscoordinator (.)
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To: Gritty
Yeah, he will spend all of that money and still lose, why don’t he divvy it up and give it to poor people who could really use it.
46 posted on 05/14/2007 11:20:13 PM PDT by Prophet in the wilderness (PSALM 53 : 1 The FOOL hath said in his heart , There is no GOD .)
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To: Williams
I have no doubt that Fred Thompson will get the GOP nomination and he could or will beat Hillary, but, with a Ross Perot 3 rd Party candidate, I am not so sure on that one.
47 posted on 05/14/2007 11:26:17 PM PDT by Prophet in the wilderness (PSALM 53 : 1 The FOOL hath said in his heart , There is no GOD .)
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To: MarkT

If he only skims votes in the NE and Liberal states who vote Liberal anyway, then it does not matter.


48 posted on 05/14/2007 11:28:05 PM PDT by Prophet in the wilderness (PSALM 53 : 1 The FOOL hath said in his heart , There is no GOD .)
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To: ken21
he couldn’t do any worse than our “conservative” bush-boy.

Oh yeah, I'm sure Bloomberg will want to appoint another Alito and Roberts to the Supreme Court.

49 posted on 05/14/2007 11:28:16 PM PDT by Mr. Silverback (A pacifist sees no distinction between the arsonist and the fireman--Freeper ccmay)
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To: restornu; pissant

You really have no idea who Hunter is, do you?


50 posted on 05/15/2007 12:17:22 AM PDT by Ultra Sonic 007 (Why vote for Duncan Hunter in 2008? Look at my profile.)
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To: restornu

Are you speaking to the pic or the comment? I liked them both, but that’s me. I also realize you weren’t speaking to me, but I got a vote for Hunter= fool from your comment, and that’s who gets my vote. Not sure what you are on about but I was taught that calling one a fool is not only poor taste, but wrong. Would it be fair for me to say you hinder Romney by referencing others as fools? Thinks above the belt? Romney? I suppose that is correct as abortion is below the belt, and just came to his attention after much research, thus his enlightenment.


51 posted on 05/15/2007 12:24:37 AM PDT by WildcatClan (Just wait till the Pretendicans have to debate, Hunter in '08)
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To: WildcatClan

My bone of contention is the Murdock syndrome of using sex to sell things.

I call him on it the other day in PM but you see he was taking a gab at me with that post.

Re: HUNTER SUCCESSFULLY OFFERS SHIPYARD WORKERS AMENDMENT
To pissant | 05/14/2007 5:52:27 AM EDT sent

what a waste you even jerk around your own candidate thread don’t ever talk about moral when you can get your head above your betl ... Phoney
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1830950/posts?page=21#21


52 posted on 05/15/2007 1:29:19 AM PDT by restornu (As I have Love you Love One To Another ~ "Go Mitt":)
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To: WildcatClan

This is how alll this started with his slur about Romney and the pro choice etc.

In Romney personal life he did not believe in those things but how can you forced another to live their life according to your personal belief.

Abortion is always something the Church council against but at which point the spirit enter in the body was always vague, unknown!

That is why so many in the political field were pro-choice because personally one could have that is their personal conviction that abortion was wrong, but could they impose their personal conviction on another when the life part was so vague not knowing when the spirit entered?

What Romney witness at the Embryo Stem Cell research labs it all became so clear to him that there is no longer any room to equivocal of what was taking place there.

So by posting provacative things only encourage and weaken the morals of this country and by that very act this ia so hypocritical it like talking out of both sides of one mouth!

Foolish people want it both ways they want to play with fire and the rest is history...


53 posted on 05/15/2007 1:39:55 AM PDT by restornu (As I have Love you Love One To Another ~ "Go Mitt":)
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To: Williams

He’s rich and bored. There is nothing else in life for him. why not spend a billion on scholarships educating students who have capability, but lack of means, instead of spending it on signs for a campaign he is going to lose.

why not give me a 100 million? I would build monsterous jet engines and install them all around the equator and slow the earth down to see what would happen. AND, we would have 48 hrs in a day to do double more the crap we do know. But at night I would speed the spin up to hurry up to get to the next 48 hr day, and....(wait, that means the other side of the planet wouldn’t have the 48 hour day...hmmm. I need to think of this a little more.)


54 posted on 05/15/2007 2:43:54 AM PDT by Tulsa Ramjet ("If not now, when?" "Because it's judgment that defeats us.")
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To: gondramB
A three way split of the liberal vote like that might let a fourth, conservative candidate get elected without all the compromises conservatives are usually called on to make.

Election of 1860: 4-way race won by Abraham Lincoln with less than a majority. Of course the ensuing decade was "interesting times."

55 posted on 05/15/2007 5:14:50 AM PDT by T Ruth (Islam shall be defeated.)
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To: Rennes Templar
Please... no!!!
Bloomberg is one of those men who knows what's best for us.

Think of him as a male Hillary Clinton.

56 posted on 05/15/2007 5:16:04 AM PDT by syriacus (Shock a lib today. Hand them a copy of the censorship rules imposed by Truman's govt in Jan., 1951.)
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To: Rennes Templar
President Bloomberg.......Yeah , right!
57 posted on 05/15/2007 5:24:15 AM PDT by Ouderkirk (Don't you think it's interesting how death and destruction seems to happen wherever Muslims gather.)
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To: airborne

“What kind of man spends $1 billion of his own money to get a job that pays $600,000?”

One that intends on getting every penny back and more.


58 posted on 05/15/2007 5:26:22 AM PDT by dljordan
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To: T Ruth

>>A three way split of the liberal vote like that might let a fourth, conservative candidate get elected without all the compromises conservatives are usually called on to make.


Election of 1860: 4-way race won by Abraham Lincoln with less than a majority. Of course the ensuing decade was “interesting times.”<<

What an interesting precedent. Thank you for that.


59 posted on 05/15/2007 6:13:56 AM PDT by gondramB (No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil)
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To: Rennes Templar

I still didn’t like him when he was my mayor. Absolutely no way he’s getting my vote.


60 posted on 05/15/2007 6:36:28 AM PDT by wastedyears (I was opposed to Rudy in the mid 1990s when he took my fireworks away. I was but a little boy.)
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