Focus on Bloomberg at bipartisan summit
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New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg turned up the volume on a possible independent bid for president on Monday, participating in a bipartisan summit that stole a bit of the spotlight from the announced candidates in New Hampshire.
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New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has launched a research effort to assess his chances in a potential bid for the presidency, a source close to the mayor told CNN.
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New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has begun detailed polling and highly sophisticated voter analysis in all 50 states as he considers an independent bid for president, associates said Wednesday.
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I&#8217;m not sure if this is a mixed metaphor, but Harvard and the mayor of New York have gone logrolling in the trans-fat cascade. The Harvard School of Public Health announced that it&#8217;s giving its highest honor, the Julius B. Richmond Award, to Mayor Michael Bloomberg for demonstrating &#8220;extraordinary leadership in protecting and promoting the [...].
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New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg may simply be promoting bipartisanship or he may be plotting his own independent presidential campaign.
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House leaders are creating a bipartisan task force on whether to establish an independent ethics panel to police the House, Speaker-to-be Nancy Pelosi said Thursday.
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Republican New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg will host a fundraiser for Sen. Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., at the mayor's Manhattan town house, Lieberman's campaign announced Sunday night.
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WASHINGTON, DC -- Everyone recognizes that this week&#39;s White House Economic Summit here in Washington is political theater. It&#39;s a chance for the White House to showcase its second term economic agenda, and get lots of mostly favorable press for it.
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New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg left the Republican Party on Tuesday and switched to unaffiliated, a move certain to be seen as a prelude to an independent presidential bid that would upend the 2008 race.
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New York mayor Michael Bloomberg&#39;s exit from the Republican Party sparked a fresh look at whether the United States is ready to elect a president who disdains partisan politics.
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New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, often mentioned as a possible third-party 2008 presidential candidate, said on Tuesday he was changing his political status to independent from Republican.
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NEW YORK - Mayor Michael Bloomberg turned down requests to allow an anti-war demonstration in Central Park on the eve of the Republican National Convention, but he offered protesters something else: cheap tickets to a Broadway show.    All they have to do to get discounted tickets, reduced hotel rates and other perks is play nice when they come to town...
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New York City's hotels are full for the last week of August, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said on Friday, boosting his claim that next week's Republican National Convention will provide an economic boom to the city.
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Federal Reserve Chairmen Ben  Bernanke will meet on Monday with House of Representatives  Speaker Nancy Pelosi to discuss how they can work together to  boost the U.S. economy, a spokesman for Pelosi said.
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New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's potential independent bid for president depends largely on whether the major party candidates embrace the political center, said Democrats and Republicans who met with the mayor on Monday.
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Chefs des chefs gather to discuss how to spice up those political summits.
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Winning votes in the Midwest will be crucial to Democratic hopes to regain power in Washington in November, party Chairman Howard Dean told about 400 young people at the College Democrats National Convention on Thursday.