My heart momentarily leapt as a smiling Mayor Bloomberg offered departing Foreign Secretary Hillary Clinton a new job – Mayor of New York.
Oh boy, if she would only take it. Yes, yes, I know I can’t stand Hillary’s pants suits and she has to do something with her hair, but I prefer her to the right-from-the-hairdresser bronze nylon helmet that Chris Quinn exhibits (and that banshee voice).
Crain’s Business invited the candidates to meet the business community so that they might present their reasons why they, as mayor, would be good for New York business. They reported that the only possible departure from, “Oh yes, we are all for business,” might be Bill de Blasio who kept remembering – and failed – to repress bits from his affordable housing speech.
Tom Allon, the former Stuyvesant teacher and now the manager of several neighborhood newspapers and newly a Republican candidate, was not invited to the Crain’s event. (Crain’s did not respond to my question – why?)
I believe almost anybody other than the professed candidates could be mayor. I mean, if Alec Baldwin were to call The Times to say he was running and would soon be Mayor Baldwin, right now, I would vote for him.
