Posted on 12/18/2007 3:34:28 PM PST by devere
December 18, 2007 -- Mayor Bloomberg's aides have been reaching out to consultants from his past campaigns about whether they are free for a possible 2008 White House bid - including one who helped make his slick mayoral TV spots, The Post has learned.
The moves took place in the past few weeks, as the primaries for the Republican and Democratic presidential nominees are about to begin - and aides have suggested that he will wait and see who the nominees are before making a decision about an independent White House run.
Bloomberg aides reached out to people involved in ad-making - including one who had been involved in creating the mayor's vaunted TV spots - asking about their availability in the coming months, the sources said.
That Bloomberg aides would look to lock up an ad team dovetails with what the mayor has privately told people about how he would spend up to $1 billion of his own fortune on an independent run, which would be played out mostly on the TV airwaves and through direct mail.
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I’m not seeing any interest at all for Bloomberg - not in real life, not in the blogosphere. I know I’m not interested.
What a dream scenario!
Won’t ever happen though. - I guess thats why they call them dreams ...
It’s my understanding that a Presidential run costs about 300 million dollars — including primaries (which he need not do).
Regardless, $1 billion is absurd. It does not cost that much — unless . . . unless he waits for the GOP and Dem nominees and goes to their senior campaign staff and offers triple or quadruple their salaries.
He could destroy the competition that way. Perhaps 60% of those staffs would swagger about all principled and say they cannot leave the campaign in September. The other 40% could say they have a responsibility to their families and their kids’ college funds to take that money.
That would be interesting. Bloomberg, professionally staffed, vs the GOP and Dem candidates with no campaign staff remaining above clerk level.
Mike?
Is there some clamoring for an independent candidate? I certainly don’t see it. I wonder who supposedly is urging Bloomberg to run. I can’t imagine why anyone wants him too when his record is largely indistinguishable from the Demo candidates.
The only clamoring I’ve seen is in re: RP being urged to do it. I’ve heard whispers in re: Bloomberg and an independent run, but would have to actually be interested enough to go hunt the rumors up. I’m sure he’s very serious, but so far, nobody cares. He’d probably add to the ticket of whoever the Dem candidate is. Well, Hillary or Obama, but not the silky anti-corporatist.
This will most likely be my longest post on Bloomberg. ;)
Or more probably (3 Liberals) and a “few minor-Party” Conservatives, and possibly..a wacky Anti-War Looney!!~
“Is there some clamoring for an independent candidate?”
Remember what happened with the Senate immigration bill? There are in fact a lot of folks who are disaffected from the Demopublicans who tried to ram that down our throats. Ross Perot tapped into that in 1992, but Bloomberg is so similar to Hillary/Obama it’s hard to see what he brings to the game except a billion dollar marketing campaign. Spending a billion dollars on advertising might get him 20% of the vote.
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