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‘Blind Spot’ Cleared Up By Mike’s 2020 Vision

By RICHARD STEIER
Posted 11/22/19

As far as is known, Michael Bloomberg has not called Mike Mulgrew recently to ask forgiveness for burying the United Federation of Teachers contract deep in his sock drawer soon after the then-Mayor won a third term in November 2009 and keeping it there for the final 50 months of his administration.

Nor has he issued public regrets to the citizenry of New York for the end-run around the Term Limits law it passed in 1993 in order to gain the right to win that third term with the help of $110 million he sank into the campaign, only to spend the next four years governing with a disinterest exemplified by the city’s sluggish response to a post-Christmas blizzard that he rode out in Bermuda.

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