[Zhang Fei]

[He’s needed to prove he’s more than an advertisement candidate, and can both deliver a punch on the stump and take one himself. ]

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Joe Lockhart is shilling for one of Bloomberg’s opponents in the Democratic Party. Bloomberg won 3 mayoral elections in NYC. That’s a tougher political arena and a much more consequential position than any of his primary opponents has encountered. It’s what makes him a formidable opponent, if he becomes the Democratic nominee.

[miss marmelstein]

Let me correct you: he bought that last election and it should never have occurred. His first one came about purely because of 9/11 and Guiliani’s endorsement of him. If 9/11 hadn’t happened, Mark Green, the Democrat, would have won. He was scheduled to win. Who knows, I’m sure Bloomberg was paying off people in 2001!