How will the New York State Democrats react to the idea of Bloomberg challening the corrupt and inept Governor Eliot Spitzer in three years?
Well, we may find out.
November 6, 2007 -- A top aide to Mayor Bloomberg has secretly contacted one of the state's best-known Republican strategists about helping Bloomberg run for governor - against Gov. Spitzer or anyone else, The Post has learned.Granted, Bloomberg, a nominal Republican to begin with, left the party to much fanfare and became and independent earlier this year. Realistically, though, there aren't many name Republicans available on the horizon, and Bloomberg could simply overwhelm the disgraced Spitzer in 2010 running as an independent, assuming Spitzer doesn't get thrown overboard by the Democrats.
The aide, Deputy Mayor Kevin Sheekey, told former state GOP Chairman William Powers late last month that Bloomberg was "open" to running for governor in 2010, sources said.
"Sheekey told Powers that he'd like to talk about the governor's race, and they're going to do it," said a source.
"I think it's also fair to say the mayor wasn't happy with the governor's recent attack on him over driver's licenses and, partly because of that, it's also fair to say he's open to running against Eliot," the source added.
Spitzer raised eyebrows in late September when he blasted Bloomberg for being "morally wrong, ethically wrong" in opposing the governor's controversial plan to give driver's licenses to illegal aliens.
Sheekey has long been associated with steering Bloomberg - who must leave office at the end of 2009 because of term limits - toward entering next year's presidential campaign as an independent.
But the mayor himself has publicly insisted he has no intention of running for president.
A recent Siena College poll showed Bloomberg, who quit the Republican Party earlier this year to become a political independent, easily defeating Democrat Spitzer, 50 to 37 percent.
No reaction was found at the Steamroller 2010 site.
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