New York, NY – New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, a potential independent candidate for president, has scheduled a meeting next week with a dozen leading Democrats and Republicans, who will join him in challenging the major-party contenders to spell out their plans for forming a “government of national unity” to end the gridlock in Washington.
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Those who will be at the Jan. 7 session at the University of Oklahoma say that if the likely nominees of the two parties do not pledge to “go beyond tokenism” in building an administration that seeks national consensus, they will be prepared to back Bloomberg or someone else in a third-party campaign for president.
Conveners of the meeting include such prominent Democrats as former senators Sam Nunn (Ga.), Charles S. Robb (Va.) and David L. Boren (Okla.), and former presidential candidate Gary Hart. Republican organizers include Sen. Chuck Hagel (Neb.), former party chairman Bill Brock, former senator John Danforth (Mo.) and former New Jersey governor Christine Todd Whitman. [washingtonpost]
He might as well save his money. After Lieberman the US population is not looking for another East Coast Jew to vote for. Clinton and Giuliani are more than enough!
And he says he is not running for President?
Bloomberg 08
As I understand it, the conveners of this meeting are not for or against any of the major candidates. They are not the vanguard for any one’s possible independent run, and only seek to urge a refocusing of the debate on reaching consensus solutions to the nation’s problems, thus to enable the next president to enter office in a position to break the current gridlock and govern from a consensus on the issues. Don’t we all want that?