Mayor Bloomberg seriously considering White House run,
says friend
BY KIRSTEN DANIS
DAILY NEWS CITY HALL BUREAU CHIEF
Monday, January 7th 2008, 4:00 AM
NORMAN, Okla. - A member of Mayor Bloomberg's political inner circle says Hizzoner is seriously thinking of running for President - and will make a final decision in the next two months.
"Bloomberg is going to spend the next two months doing an assessment of his prospects," mayoral pollster Doug Schoen told the Los Angeles Times.
Schoen's words over the weekend were the first public admission from a Bloomberg confidant that, denials aside, he may still launch an independent White House bid. The comments came as the mayor arrived for a bipartisan conference today with about a dozen ex-senators and other leaders to come up with ways to end Washington gridlock.
But here's only one thing mostly everyone at the gabfest at the University of Oklahoma wants to know: Will the now independent Bloomberg throw his hat into the ring?
"It's an exploratory moment," said Ron Rapoport, a politics professor and expert on third-party races at the College of William and Mary. "And it gets publicity, which keeps the agenda in front of the public."
The mayor, who quit the GOP last year, has repeatedly said he is not running but feeds the frenzy with sly comments about presidential candidates and energy policy and news that he gets private briefings on Iraq.
Speculation that he is seriously considering getting into the race is also being ramped up because Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel, a Republican pal mentioned as a possible running mate, will be at today's conference.
"[The mayor] is going there to talk to like-minded people about solving our nation's problems," insists Bloomberg spokesman Stu Loeser.
The timing tells a more complicated story: The gathering is a day before the New Hampshire primary, and a month before the February mega-primary. And the meeting's organizers, former Sens. Sam Nunn (D-Ga.) and David Boren (D-Okla.), have said they would back an independent candidate if the current crop doesn't start speaking to America's moderate majority.
Whether this is a start to a Bloomberg candidacy, or a clever way to keep the buzz alive, is still up in the air. Several participants have said they want to change the country's tone, not start a third party.
"That's not why I'm going to Oklahoma," Republican William Cohen of Maine, a former senator and defense secretary under former President Bill Clinton, told the Daily News.
"I don't know that an independent candidate would have any more luck if it's just an independent candidate dealing with the same parties locked in their own ideologies," Cohen said.
kdanis@nydailynews.com
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Mayor Bloomberg Seeks to Win White House As His
APS Staff Loses Harlem Pastor’s Home
UPDATE 16 January 2008
DISABLED PASTOR STILL HOMELESS AFTER 41 DAYS AS APS OFFICIALS AND MAYOR BLOOMBERG RUN COVER-UP
Only receiving a $659 Social Security Disability check monthly, Pastor Crea had to make, on his own, a $375 certified check to save his household from the warehouse, ready to get rid of all of it after 30 days. On January 7, like going to the morgue, his $375 was brought to the Bronx to identify and to secure what remains of his lifetime of pastoral projects and personal belongings, as Bloomberg begins bargaining for new D.C. digs of his own.
LEAD
As Mike Bloomberg bundled-up to jet out to Oklahoma for an independent bid to win the White House, his HRA Chief Robert Doar continued to cover-up for Adult Protective Services [APS] staff, bungling-up their admitted, deliberate loss of disabled Pastor Michael Vincent Crea’s Harlem home on December 6.
APS Central Intake Unit Supervisor Gary Barberio’s pre-Christmas collusion with SRO owner Abe Betesh, who illegally locked out and removed all Crea’s belongings, stole the housing rights activist’s holidays and home a month ago. Now, Mayor Mike Bloomberg, the man who would live at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, had left town and Pastor Michael Vincent Crea is still left homeless out in the cold.
Mayor Bloomberg’s Deputy Mayor for APS Linda Gibbs has been AWOL, while HRA Commissioner Doar has failed to discipline Barberio, as APS Central Director, Rema Rivera, has not investigated her Grinch supervisor, selling out the disabled pastor’s rights, stealing his holidays and home, yet, not his Spirit.
FULL STORY
On November 20, Pastor Crea, who had won both a 230-violation HPD case, including getting his SRO neighbors hot water for the first time in over 10 years, along with his and his roommate’s 40-month rent strike, Adult Protective Services staff told him “not to worry,” as Abe Betesh sought to evict him.
Already losing four times to the pro bono pastor, Betesh, a Brooklyn property pillager, saw Adult Protective Services assisting Crea, as another defeat in the making. Gary Barberio despicably disregarded APS policy and procedures, coldly blowing away the pastor’s person with disabilities rights.
The defeated Abe Betesh, reneged on both Court ordered, signed settlements, having the pastor continue to strike rightfully, until Betesh did repairs but he never did justice to them. City Marshal Gary Rose and Abe Betesh ‘assassinated’ the apartment activist, while Crea was not home on December 6, rather than allow Justice to be served after his arduous and courageous four-year stand.
Immediately, the pastor went to work with calls to Deputies Mayor Walcott and Doctoroff, with whom he had shared his proposal at the Clinton Foundation to buy Betesh properties to be used for AIDS and fixed-income residents.
Non-profit Eviction Intervention Services’ advocate Ronald Rogers told the pastor, “I don’t know what happened but someone realized that [they] made a really big boo-boo with the wrong person,” informing him of a hastily scheduled APS appointment.
Yet, after the APS legal team failed to secure the SRO kitchenette on December 13, the pastor’s calls were not returned and nothing was attempted, even to have him in a hotel for the holidays. Distraught but determined, Pastor Crea kept up calls and emails until Christmas Eve.
As Mayor Bloomberg and his entire Human Resources Administration staff enjoyed the holidays at home, Pastor Crea stayed up sleepless in a chair at a computer at a local radio station. A few evenings were spent on his community garden coordinators’ couch, until their own company came for Christmas.
On December 28, APS supervisor Carmen Hernandez, told to call the pastor after all his own calls, did nothing afterwards on Crea’s requests to be given a hotel room and food until housed. On New Year’s eve, he applied on his own for a new apartment with Harlem Congregations for Community Improvement, Inc. who is a contractor for city-owned units in Harlem, where he’s lived for 9 of the last 15 years.
HRA previously lost the Pastor’s first Harlem home, when he served Rwandan refugees for Christmas 1994. He had lost work in 1992, while being called “a n-gg-r lover” for defending Mayor Dinkins and Cardinal O’Connor, visiting a family after police killed their son.
Then again, telling him to go, “not to worry,” HRA promised to pay his rent with a one shot deal but never paid it. While still maintaining his Harlem ties and after caring for a friend with AIDS until his death, Pastor Crea returned in 2003.
Last week on January 2, Pastor Crea called Manhattan APS Director Patrick Taveres, asking that the Bloomberg administration do the right thing, in moving Crea into a new Harlem home. As the Mayor left town, nothing was done again.
Both APS’s Taveres and Hernandez failed to supply the promised ‘one shot deal’ funds to recover what remains after Abe Betesh’s illegal removal of Crea’s belongings, now, in a Bronx warehouse.
UPDATE 16 January 2008
DISABLED PASTOR STILL HOMELESS AFTER 41 DAYS AS APS OFFICIALS AND MAYOR BLOOMBERG RUN COVER-UP
Only receiving a $659 Social Security Disability check monthly, Pastor Crea had to make, on his own, a $375 certified check to save his household from the warehouse, ready to get rid of all of it after 30 days. On January 7, like going to the morgue, his $375 was brought to the Bronx to identify and to secure what remains of his lifetime of pastoral projects and personal belongings, as Bloomberg begins bargaining for new D.C. digs of his own.
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