Late last year, the Observer asked former Democratic consulting guru Bob Shrum if he thought Michael Bloomberg could ever be president.
His answer at the time was emphatic. "No chance,” he said. “No. He can't win the presidency as an independent."
Something seems to have changed his mind since then.
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Back in the late 1990’s, Mike Bloomberg was just another media mogul and Kevin Sheekey was a young aide floating a crazy idea: that his boss would run for Mayor of New York.
Now Mr. Bloomberg is Mayor, and Mr. Sheekey, freighted with a long City Hall title, has been floating another suggestion: Mike Read More
Back in the late 1990’s, Mike Bloomberg was just another media mogul and Kevin Sheekey was a young aide floating a crazy idea: that his boss would run for Mayor of New York.
Now Mr. Bloomberg is Mayor, and Mr. Sheekey, freighted with a long City Hall title, has been floating another suggestion: Mike for Read More
Robert Shrum, the political consultant whose words and ideas have helped define the Democratic Party for 40 years, has signed a contract to write his first book.
At age 62, Mr. Shrum has been a writer for most of his career, and is, in his way, one of America’s best-known. Phrases like “Come home America” Read More
It’s a little surrealistic right now,” said a dazed James Moll, a 41-year-old filmmaker who won an Academy Award for his Holocaust documentary, The Last Days . Mr. Moll is Steven Spielberg’s in-house documentarian at DreamWorks SKG and now, crucially-”surreally!”-has become Senator John Kerry’s official Presidential big-screen image-maker.
On Tuesday, July 27, Mr. Moll had Read More
