Michael Bloomberg Watch: Bloomberg Leaves GOP

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg talks with reporters as California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger listens, left, at a conference in Los Angeles Tuesday, June 19, 2007. Later Tuesday, Bloomberg left the Republican Party and switched to unaffiliated, a move certain to be seen as a prelude to an independent presidential bid that would upend the 2008 race. The billionaire former CEO, who was a lifelong Democrat before he switched to the Republican Party in 2001 for his first mayoral run, said the change in his voter registration does not mean he is running for president.

N.Y. Mayor Bloomberg Leaves GOP

New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg abruptly left the Republican Party yesterday, declaring himself free of a “rigid adherence” to ideology and stoking speculation that he will use his multibillion-dollar fortune to mount an independent bid for the White House.

The founder of the Bloomberg financial media empire has repeatedly denied interest in the presidency. At a technology conference yesterday in which he attacked partisanship in Washington, he said: “I plan to be mayor for the next 926 days.” But he has refused to rule out a run for the presidency, even discussing the possibility privately with close advisers and beginning to travel around the country, including a trip to the home of the nation’s first primary, New Hampshire.

Bloomberg was a RINO at BEST.

But, who REALLY cares?

Rudy and Hillary…….

Stay tuned……

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