If Bloomberg runs for Prez will this be the 1st time ever both the present

[saracat]

and former Mayors of NYC have run for President? Is Rudy the first Mayor of NYC to run? Anyone know?

[NoPasaran]

1. John Lindsay

Mayor in the late 60s-early 70s ran.

[saracat]

4. Thats right! I forgot about Lindsay!

[BushOut06]

2. How in the fuck did New Yorkers elect GOPhers to both mayor and governor?

I guess it's the same way that Mitt-en-fuher became governor of Massachusetts? I still don't understand it, though.

[C_U_L8R]

3. The NY Dem candidates were more mutts than Mitt

[jcrew2001]

6. Mark Green was a born loser

thats why

[Josh]

8. I think September 11 had something to do with it -

Giuliani draped his arm over Bloomberg and declared him his successor.

[BestCenter]

7. Bloomberg was a Democrat for most of his life.

He only became a GOP in 2001 to run for mayor.

[rpannier]

5. Interesting question...I found these facts

No sitting or former NYC mayor has achieved higher office since John T. Hoffman, who was mayor from 1866 to 1868, became governor in 1869.

NY mayoralty has been a dead-end job. (Prior to Hoffman, Mayor Edward Livingston <1801-1803> went on to become a Louisiana senator and Sec. of State, and Mayor DeWitt Clinton <1803-1807, 1808-1810> went on to become NY governor.)

Mayor McClellan was not an announced presidential candidate in 1904, he, nevertheless, received three delegate votes (out of 1000) at the Democratic convention that year.

John Lindsay, who was mayor for two terms, from 1966 to 1973.
He was first elected as a Republican, won re-election as a Liberal, and switched to become a Democrat in mid-1971. In late December 1971 he announced that he was running for the Democratic nomination for president. He came in second in the Arizona primary (and won a few delegates) but faltered badly in Florida and Wisconsin, coming in no better than fifth in each. He dropped out in early April 1972