Sources: MTA Chairman Joe Lhota To Run For New York City Mayor

CBS Local New York ^ | December 18, 2012 11:50 PM | New York CBS Local

[MuttTheHoople]

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — CBS 2 has learned Metropolitan Transportation Authority Chairman Joe Lhota will resign his post and run for mayor of New York City in 2013.

Highly placed sources in Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s administration and the MTA board told CBS 2′s Dick Brennan that Lhota will step down Friday and is expected to join the mayoral race for the Republican nomination.

[MuttTheHoople]

Freepers, what think ye? He's probably has Leftist Regressive when compared to conservatives, but this is New York. Would he be a new Giuliani, who was tough on crime? Or a new Bloomberg, who was tough on Big Gulps?

[Jack Hammer]

Wonder if he’ll be able to unseat God - a.k.a. Mayor Bloomberg.

[knarf]

Is he a Teamster ?

[9YearLurker]

No—here’s a bio.

[9YearLurker]

I don’t believe Bloomie is running again.

[Jack Hammer]

Really?

Hard to believe.

It’s like a cat giving up catnip.

Wonder whether or not they’ll have his throne enshrined...