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Clinton to run for NYC Mayor?

zakur

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Is Gotham Ready for Mayor Clinton?

We are bringing you another Clinton rumor this morning.

Not about Hillary. She's gotten enough publicity this week.

Not about sex. We've all had enough of that.

About Bill.

That he just might, maybe, possibly, want to run for office again.

After musing about how that darn 22nd Amendment ought to be changed so young ex-presidents can run again, maybe he will just find a job for which there is no constitutional bar. Such as mayor of New York.
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That's true.

The 22nd only applies to the President. NY does not have any laws about former presidents becoming mayor and now, Clinton meets the residency requirements.
 
Bloomberg says, "Back off, Bill."

NYC mayor says Bill Clinton should wait to run for City Hall

Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Thursday that if former President Clinton has his eye on City Hall, he should wait until the current occupant has already been re-elected and moved on to private life.

The Republican mayor's drooping public opinion poll numbers combined with Clinton's residence in the leafy suburbs a few minutes north of the city have fueled rumors in recent days that the Democratic ex-president may be on the make for a new political job come 2005, when Bloomberg is expected to run for re-election.

The mayor took the speculation in stride Thursday during a news conference to announce the reopening of a bookstore that had been situated in the World Trade Center and was destroyed Sept. 11, 2001.

"I welcome lots of competition," said Bloomberg, who smiled at the possibility. "If President Clinton wants to run for mayor, I can tell him it's a very challenging job. But it's a great job. I would recommend it to anybody. (But) I sort of recommend that he thinks about it for the next six years because he'd have a tough time winning before that."

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On Thursday, a Clinton spokesman said the idea of Mayor Clinton is hooey.

"President Clinton is busy running his foundation, not running for office, and is working hard to combat AIDS and empower the poor," spokesman Jim Kennedy wrote in an e-mail.
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What in the hell is wrong with all you northeastern democrat yankees? Take a trip to arkansas sometime. You won't believe you actually thought of making this guy president, much less mayor of NYC.
 
Arkansas makes Texas look like Paris. ;)

Just hopping back and forth between Texarkana Ark, and Texarkana Tex is dramatic.
 
I rember hearing people in Arkansas saying they supported Clinton for president because the felt he could hurt them less from the white house than the governer's trailer, in Texas, we had no such excuse.
 
corplinx said:
What in the hell is wrong with all you northeastern democrat yankees? Take a trip to arkansas sometime. You won't believe you actually thought of making this guy president, much less mayor of NYC.
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I agree. The deep south is a creepy place.
I drove through it once. I could hear the music from "Deliverance" in the back of my head the whole time.
 
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