"While at the University of Oklahoma to deliver the commencement address May 11, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg engaged in a long, private discussion about 2008 politics with university president and maverick Democrat David Boren. According to New York political sources, they discussed a role Boren might play in an independent Bloomberg campaign for president -- generating speculation about a Bloomberg-Boren ticket. In introducing Bloomberg for his commencement speech, Boren praised the mayor's record stabilizing his city's budget and strengthening its economy after the 9/11 attack. Boren was governor of Oklahoma before serving 16 years in the U.S. Senate. A moderate Democrat, he clashed with President Clinton and left the Senate in 1994 to take the University of Oklahoma post."
Innocent Visit
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg came close to taking himself out of consideration for a 2008 run as an independent candidate on Friday. During Bloomberg’s weekly radio show, he quipped about expecting some media attention over the fact he will be in New Hampshire, home of the first-in-the-nation primary, on Saturday.
“People will read into the fact that I’m going to be in New Hampshire tomorrow,” Bloomberg conceded.
“They have a primary there, you know,” host John Gambling noted.
“That may be, but the truth of the matter is I’m going to be in New Hampshire just for dinner,” Bloomberg said.
Bloomberg explained he only was going to the state for one evening to attend his girlfriend’s college reunion. At the present, at least, Bloomberg said he intends to remain as mayor through his current term, which runs until November 2009.
“I don’t think the country is quite ready for me,” Bloomberg added.
Michael H. Drucker
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