YAHOO FOR MIKE SWITCHEROO: BUBBA<\/a><\/span><\/p>\nBy MAGGIE HABERMAN<\/p>\n
June 22, 2007 — Former President Bill Clinton congratulated Mike Bloomberg yesterday for quitting the Republican Party – and predicted his wife will still be the next president even if the mayor joins the race.<\/p>\n
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Experts estimated that with a half-billion-dollar campaign budget, at least $300 million<\/span> would be spent on television commercials, $75 million<\/span> for direct mail, and tens of millions more for high-end travel arrangements and operations around the country.<\/p>\n“Bloomberg would want to try to put 60 percent of $500 million<\/span> on paid advertising – broadcast, cable, Internet, minority outreach, radio,” said GOP consultant Scott Reed. <\/p><\/blockquote>\nYep, it’s the political consultants, who get 30%-40% of each media buy by a campaign.<\/p>\n
Scott Reed is drooling right now like the ghoul he is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Who wants Michael Bloomberg to run for president? The press, leaves the important information at the end. YAHOO FOR MIKE SWITCHEROO: BUBBA By MAGGIE HABERMAN June 22, 2007 — Former President Bill Clinton congratulated Mike Bloomberg yesterday for quitting the Republican Party – and predicted his wife will still be the next president even if …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1094,970,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-finance","category-corruption","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199837"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}