Bloomberg Has Spent Staggering $18.7 Million On Re-Election Campaign So Far

New York Daily News:

Mayor Bloomberg's campaign team says he isn't trying to buy the election - but new records show he has put an $18.7million down payment on a bid to acquire a third term.

The self-made billionaire has poured $15.6 million into his campaign in the past two months, spending millions on advertising, printing, consultants, dozens of staffers, rent and office supplies.

Read more: "Mayor Bloomberg's campaign has spent whopping $18.7 million to date on re-re-election" - http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2009/05/15/2009-05-15_mayor_bloombergs_campaign_has_spent_whopping_187_million_to_date_on_rereelection.html#ixzz0FfwE1nQA&A

Read the whole story: New York Daily News

Comments

[Heavy]

Bbburls classy remark to me last night when discussing torture.

"They had their headscut off..
May it happen to your family......."

[rich misty]

I had to lay down and rest, so I missed all last night... Even to have been a fly on the wall.

[sharonh]

He is a very cruel and HatefulPerson.

[rampage]

Burll is a loony toons

[SisterMary]

Yet another successful post , angering so many mentally incompetent sheep is always the best way to start your day :-) See ya soon libs !

[Heavy]

Angering people doesn't really work well as a political strategy. Good luck with that next year.

[levibatgirl]

Time to take your m eds for your delusions?

[H3LLtoupee]

Liquor stores must have just opened.

SisterMary needs to go buy today's supplies.

[RepublicansRejected]

Go to h ell.

[Heavy]

Ru sh rocks-
No Ha nnity rocks-
They both rock-
Yeah and Obama sux-
Yeah, whitepowerr.-
Whitepowerr-

Dialogue from republican website. No wonder she comes here.

[Middleclassvotingbloc]

Just a drop in the bucket for Bloomberg--he earns more than that a day just on interest alone.

[breakingnews]

Anyone else find it funny that the troIIs come here and complain about all the "Libs" on here? Gasp~ Libs at a Liberal website!!

It's like going to St. Mary's on Easter Sunday and bit.ching about all the Catholics in the parking lot.

[rich misty]

I think they are angry they have been exposed as the party of torture and male perversions.

[NWRICK]

Vegetarians in the butcher shop?

[Lavafalls]

More like strict carnivores at the organic farmers market.

[jillsond]

They can't get a decent conversation going at the Pube sites.

[rich misty]

I did, the mod didn't

[dezzertguy]

It is fun to see the Lib zombies here. Sometimes try to bring facts but you right not much acceptance of facts here. Emotion and feelings rule the day.

[buckbuck11]

I doubt that the framers of the Constitution had buying your way into political office in mind when they were talking about the "free speech" provisions of the First Amendment.

[GhiaccioPronto]

"the framers" are not saints. and the constitution is not the unalterable word of god. I always thought term limits were crude hack on a broken system and I don't like them. That said I really support referendums, and the people decided this issue in 93. They could change it for Bloomberg, if they wanted, but he wouldn't take that chance. Bloomberg as mayor, has been a bland, nonthreatening caretaker who has done nothing, and has no vision, for the long term future of NYC. NY needs somebody else, but there is no one who is ready to step up to the plate.

[ThomasMc]

He must be getting quite a return in bribes!

[NWRICK]

Quite a charge. Do you have a link?

[Middleclassvotingbloc]

He does not need to take bribes--the man is a billion heir several times over.

[Airmail56]

Wonder what Clinton did for that $500,000.000.00 he got?

[sharonh]

This obviously is the best office money can buy, or Mayor would not have it. Should we thank him for contributing to the ecomony?

[whatthel]

Why not just say, I'm not going to campaign, but if I'm re-elected I will spend 18.7 million on public projects.

[RofWH]

But why?

After two terms as Mayor of NY with all those problems and so little relative power, why more? Go run a foundation. Go do something useful instead of being a politician. He can't be a Republican any more because Cantor won't have him. He can't run for Pres as a Republican because he can't win any primaries with all those anti-abortion, anti-gay, anti-anything-reasonable nuts controlling the nut house.

So why?

[richardbee]

$18.7+ MILLION INVESTMENT FOR RE-ELECTION ?
Makes one wonder how much is being gained in return.
Mayor Bloomberg is a successful businessman for valid reasons.
He understands 'Return-on-Investment (ROI)'.
He is also a POLITICIAN.
I find it hard to believe his motives are entirely altruistic, but one can only hope.
Altruism aside, ROI NOW, or ROI LATER - that is the question.

[BarryChamplain]

BINGO.

And not one New York "journalist" or Democratic politician, even, dares ask the question about his ROI.

[smartcookienyc]

Actually, I've been listening to Errol Lewis' morning show. He writes for the Daily News. He has been asking questions.

[Lavafalls]

Could be a quest for power. After all, money only gets you so far. After that it's al about the power that money can buy.

Power sure is getting expensive.

[smartcookienyc]

I agree. I've been asking my NYC neighbors ...

Why does he want this job anyway? Managing homeless shelters, recycing, fire departments.

With all that money, he could be traveling the globe, like Bill Clinton and Bill Gates, shelling out humanitarian money, having fun.

Something doesn't add up.

[rich misty]

I know that Ferengi are better than Republicans. Ferengi don't hurt kids.

http://xs102.xs.to/xs102/06242/ferengi-ethics.jpg

http://washingtonindependent.com/15946/mccain-camp-buses-in-4000-kids-for-ohio-rally

[SisterMary]

Obama's campaign expenses :

http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/expend.php?cycle=2008&cid=n00009638

And your point is ?

[adey]

Poor sister. Vow of cel.ibacy chafing a bit this morning?

[Cantkeepagoodtrolldown]

You don't need a vow of celibacy to remain chaste.

Your fa ce does all the heavy lifting.

[ladynaga]

Celibacy not by choice

[Heavy]

It was her suitors that took the vow.

[breakingnews]

The vow of poverty is kil.ling her. Jealous of all the upper middle class Libbbies in the house.

[SisterMary]

There was no way the neophyte would have won without the saturation ... better pony up for the 2012 election , he's gonna need a mountain of cash to get elected after this botched attempt at a Presidency .

[rich misty]

Let's talk about Republican homoerotic torture, pedo.philia, and torture porn?

[Cantkeepagoodtrolldown]

Most Dems would consider such criticism a ha te crime.

[jillsond]

Sounds like "The Passion of the Christ".

[Lavafalls]

And that money came from millions of donors across the nation. Bloomy is a billionaire putting his own money in to buy the election. Big difference between beholden th the country and buying yourself power.

[Airmail56]

Like the 100K+ from AIG?

[jillsond]

Obama RAISED money for his campaign, sillysister. Hellooooo?

Now go repent.

[adey]

Oh. She thought it was "resent."

[Airmail56]

Why did AIG give money? What are they buying? Answer please, don't deflect.

[BarryChamplain]

If Bernie Madoff had shelled-out this kind of cash for a mayoral campaign, he could have convinced New York that he was Abe Lincoln, too.

Has so much as ONE pundit speculated on why the kind of money Bloomberg spends to be Mayor is WORTH IT to him? Yeah, I know... "civic duty". Yeah. All billionaires got that way out of a sense of altruism.

This whole thing is so loaded. And my fellow New Yorkers will once again prove themselves to be Rubes With Attitude.

[sharonh]

Don't forget the horrific road and street manners.

[BarryChamplain]

Don't blame us for our "road manners"; it's the POTHOLES. Piss anyone off. Bloomberg's priority, shall we say, is not "potholes".

P.S. to the Heartland: potholes are not a joke (ask my mechanic).

[ResistanceisFutile]

What return does he expect for his investment?

A run for the Presidency?

[Lavafalls]

Power. You can only use so much money. After that it's power that kicks you up a notch.

[KO4Pres]

Plus he's got that whole short man syndrome thing goin' on....

[MightyMia]

He already has power (evident by the gobs of money he has and the things he can buy). I think he is after control, which can only be obtained by being powerful. Absolute control to push his own ideology down the throats of others.

[LeonBNJ]

I am becoming increasingly concerned that many more people who run for public office tend to be the richest 1%'ers who can put in huge amounts of their own money to win. Bloomberg is a classic example. Real citizens, those of more modest means can't even considering running or to be able to run a decent campign unless they accept money from the rich and do their bidding and ignore the real needs of the masses. Until we look at the 1st Amendment freedom of speech in a different way, to say that money does not buy access, then we will see the richest control us to their and fellow rich people's benefit, not of the masses.