Posted on 01/08/2010 2:49:30 AM PST by Scanian
Senate Democratic Majority Leader Harry Reid reached out to Mayor Bloomberg today to urge him not to get behind former congressman Harold Ford Jr., if the Tennessee transplant decides to take on Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand in a primary, sources told The Post.
The conversation came the same day that Bloomberg's 2009 campaign manager Bradley Tusk and his pollster, Doug Schoen, had lunch with Ford, sources said.
Reid placed the call after reports that Bloomberg was open to backing Ford - who's seriously weighing a challenge to Gillibrand - against the junior senator, who was appointed to her post last year and has struggled to gain traction with voters.
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If someone had said ten years ago....that a disgraced Tennessee Representative could just pack up....move to New York City....and then run for senator...mounting a pretty good campaign...I would have called them a fool. But this is the sign of strange times.
NYC is a strange place! The fact that Bloomberg was ever allowed to call himself republican is even stranger.
A crook telling a crook not to back a crook.
Isn’t this the same Harold Ford Jr who got run out of office in Tennessee?
The same one who’s family if full of criminal politicians?
Man, Harry should have moved to New Jersey where a crooked politician is a normal everyday type of thing.
Speaking on behalf of Tennesseans everywhere, good riddance!
Why? IIRC, ten years ago...a disgraced "first lady" packed up...moved to New York...then ran for senator...mounted a good campaign...got elected -- TWICE...then became secretary of state!
Sorry Marc (Cohn).
Bloomberg is an Independent. So what possible connection could the Democratic Senate leader Reid have, to call and tell Bloomberg who to back in a primary race?
Obviously, it was to threaten Bloomberg with a change in the Health Care legislation, to punish New York City if Bloomberg doesn’t behave.
Interesting reference to Dim pollster Doug Schoen. Yesterday on Hannity’s “panel” Schoen said that Obama’s was a “failing Presidency.”
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