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...easy being green. More specifically, it wasn't easy being Mark Green last week, when New York City's public advocate--the early front runner in the race to succeed Rudy Giuliani as mayor--swept into an awards breakfast in Harlem, and nobody seemed to care. Green is the most quotable Democrat in town, but when reporters approached him at the breakfast, they only wanted to talk about the short, wispy-haired man who showed up 10 minutes later: billionaire media mogul Michael Bloomberg, 59, the political novice who created a minor sensation last week by announcing as a Republican...
...race. But the poll was taken before most New Yorkers had got to know Bloomberg--and the $20 million to $30 million he is expected to spend is sure to change that. Four out of five New Yorkers are Democrats, but that was true when the Republican Giuliani won his two mayoral elections. Once every generation or so the town goes Republican--usually in moments of crisis, such as the Gotham-is-ungovernable hysteria that helped elect Giuliani--only to revert to Democratic control. So by that estimate, Bloomberg has a shot...
...mogul is betting he can sell himself as the Nice Rudy, a boss to keep the city safe without all that Giuliani vindictiveness and soap-opera strife. (Giuliani and his estranged wife have been fighting about whether his girlfriend can visit Gracie Mansion, the mayoral residence. Even New York is getting sick of it.) And Bloomberg's fortune--estimated at $4 billion--isn't his only weapon. John McCain, the most popular politician in the country right now, tells TIME that he will be stumping for Bloomberg. "I hope and intend to campaign for Michael," says the Arizona Senator...
Supporters say Bloomberg has the smarts to slide up the learning curve. Perhaps. But is he smart to pattern his candidacy on Giuliani? The race is inevitably a referendum on Rudy--everyone in it is running for and against parts of him--and Bloomberg argues that the city wants a caretaker of his legacy. But the mayor has also worn people out--and severely antagonized minorities, who say his cops unfairly target them. Bloomberg told TIME he would meet with black activist Al Sharpton, whom Rudy has shunned. And his embrace of Giuliani is still gawky and schizophrenic. "Nobody should...
...RUDY GIULIANI N.Y.C. mayor fires his estranged wife's staff. Next week he'll fight her for custody of Staten Island...