Run Mike Run

The Queens Courier has endorsed Mayor Michael Bloomberg for President twice since he has been elected as mayor.
The first time was in the issue of June 15, 2006 when the words oval office and Bloomberg where first published by the national media. We said then, “The Queens Courier, the first newspaper in New York to endorse Michael Bloomberg for mayor, is proud to endorse him again for the highest office in the land - President of the United States.”
Then Bloomberg fired a shot heard around the country on Tuesday, June 19, 2007 when he dumped the Republican Party in order to become “unaffiliated.” We again endorsed him for a run for President because he is beholden to no national committees, platforms, or any of the other political baggage that figure into the race to win Red and Blue states on election night.
A self-made billionaire, Michael Rubens Bloomberg from Medford, MA, was an Eagle Scout, earned an engineering degree at Johns Hopkins University and a business degree at Harvard. Leaving Salomon Brothers with $10 million in 1981 he began Bloomberg LP, which includes Bloomberg News, Bloomberg Radio and Bloomberg Television, all built on the success of his Bloomberg terminals - a must-have financial information terminal that made its way to virtually every desk in the financial world.
When he ran for mayor of New York, he was a candidate with no political base, no political history and no political debts. He financed his election campaign for mayor entirely out his own fortune.
Now that he has traveled the country and the world for nearly a year, if Bloomy decides to run, he will probably make that decision after “Tsunami Tuesday” on February 5, when two dozen states including New York and California hold their primaries.
Bloomy could then enter the race, running petition drives in all 50 states to place his name on the ballot on Election Day. Once again, he would not have to rely on or solicit campaign funds to mount a run for the White House.
The gaggle of announced Republican and Democratic candidates is thinning out week-by-week. Hillary Clinton managed to jumpstart her troubled campaign by scoring a close victory over Iowa caucus victor Barack Obama, in the New Hampshire primary.
Political experts agree that the public may be sick of the major party candidates as this political season winds down and Bloomberg could walk in as a fresh face who is a results-oriented chief executive and capture the voters’ imagination.
We think he could push past Obama and Clinton and run as an Independent. Watch the results in Michigan and on Super Tuesday and root for Bloomy to declare a run for president and shake up the whole race.
Go Bloomy!