Bloomberg for governor?
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- November
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The New York Post reports today that New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg may be gearing up to run for governor in 2010 when Gov. Spitzer is expected to seek a second term.
And Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno predicted this morning on an Albany radio station that Bloomberg will run for the governor’s mansion. His term as mayor expires at the end of 2009.
“I believe in my God that when it’s all said and done, he’s going to be there,” Bruno said on WROW-AM (590). “He’s term limited. The timing is perfect that’s he’ll be out there, he’ll be running. And he’ll be elected for governor I believe. People will welcome him.”
The Post story cited sources that said that Deputy NYC Mayor Kevin Sheekey told former state GOP Chairman William Powers late last month that Bloomberg, who is an independent, was “open” to running for governor in 2010.
Bloomberg, who is also speculated to be eying a run for president next year, told reporters this morning, according to the Daily Politics blog, that he’s not interested.
“You can tell the Governor he does not have to worry about me running. It is totally fictitious. I have absolutely no idea where it comes from,” Bloomberg said. “I’ve got the greatest job in the world, I’m going to finish it, and I’ve been telling everybody that and I categorically will not run for Governor, although I want to support our Governor, Eliot Spitzer.”
A Siena College poll last month found that in a head-to-head matchup for the 2010 governor’s race, Bloomberg beats embattled Spitzer, 50 percent to 37 percent.
Spitzer’s embattled status due to the Troopergate scandal and his controversial plan to let illegal immigrants get driver’s licenses has made Spitzer vulnerable even just one year into his administration.
In June, Siena found that Spitzer edged out Bloomberg, 43 percent to 41 percent in a head-to-head matchup.
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Jay Gallagher has covered Albany for Gannett News Service since 1984 and has been Albany Bureau chief since 1989. He`s a native of the Boston area and likes to point out that in this millennium, the score is Red Sox 1 championship, the Yankees 0. 
Cara Matthews has been a statehouse correspondent in the Albany Bureau since August 2005. Prior to that, she covered Putnam County government and politics at The Journal News for nearly five years. Before that, she worked at newspapers in Connecticut and covered the state Legislature for one of them. 
