Thompson Running for Mayor in 2013

[brooklynite]

from WNBC:

Bill Thompson has already said he won't challenge Kirsten Gillibrand for her Senate seat this fall, but he isn't about to exit the political stage any time soon.

The former city comptroller, who narrowly lost to Michael Bloomberg in what many had expected to be a blowout mayoral election last November, plans to run for mayor again in 2013.

"I'm not going to disappear," Thompson told the Daily News. "The city of New York is a place that I love. And I think that I am uniquely qualified for the position."

sigh!

Yes, he came close to Bloomberg in November, but it doesn't change the fact that he was a mediocre candidate who couldn't raise money or articulate a clean message about what he was for (as opposed to saying he wasn't Bloomberg). Time to give someone else a shot.

[Smarmie Doofus]

1. The paradox ( and the tragedy) is that....

... if he were a mediocre candidate he'd have been able to raise all the money he needed.

>>>but it doesn't change the fact that he was a mediocre candidate who couldn't raise money or articulate a clean message>>>

The message was articulated just fine. But there's no independent news media in NYC; everything is tied into the corporate elite. So the message wasn't effectively *conveyed*.

That's not Thompson's fault.