I hear he spends every weekend in Bermuda with armed police officers on detail.
He didn’t even call in! He doesn’t need votes in NYC anymore.
I will say, as much as I dislike Andrew Cuomo, he was calm and non-showboating during this tragedy. I can only imagine the meal Christie would have made of this!
Bloomie has a special treaty with Bermuda for his island. The government of Bermuda exercises no authority there, so Bloomberg has his own private military.
I assume they're armed with more than high-cap handguns and automatic weapons. He's hinted at his anti-aircraft and anti-ship capabilities. And he buys them all on the worldwide arms free market, rather than having snitches try a strawman purchase on some FFL-licensed gun dealer in Podunk, Wyoming.
“I hear he spends every weekend in Bermuda with armed police officers on detail.”
I hadn’t heard about the armed police officers, but that was my understanding too, that he spent long weekends, three days of every week in Bermuda, not only outside New York City, not only outside New York State, but outside the country.
There was a massive snowstorm a couple years back where both he and his second in command were both out of the city, though he kept sidestepping that fact. Thankfully, that ended talk of his running for the presidency.