Bill Knapp

Here's Michael Bloomberg dismissinga story published today that says his aides are reaching out to his former campaign consultants and asking them not to get locked in with other presidential candidates until Bloomberg decides if he'll run.

“There was this breathless story, like something’s changed,” Bloomberg said at the City Hall press conference this morning. “I have no idea where it came from or what it‘s about.”

He continued, “Do I have advisers on lots of things? Sure. Do I know people? If I was going to run, I’d know exactly who to go to." (video stops here)

I asked him who those people are.
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There was a sense, at some point during the Mayor's race, that Democrats who worked for Mike might face retribution from their party. Not the high-profile consultants like Bill Knapp, of course, but the mid-level staffers.

But this hasn't happened, and in fact veterans of the Bloomberg campaign are heading into good jobs with Democratic politicians. Maura Keaney, the labor operative who ran Mike's get-out-the-vote effort, has started work as a top aide to her old boss, now City Council Speaker Christine Quinn. And Neil Giacobbi, who ran Mike's volunteer operation, is now chief-of-staff to David Yassky, the City Council Democrat running for Congress in Brooklyn.

Mike's new round of spending figures is out, and he's up to $63.8 million total.

He spent $10.2 million on television in the last two weeks alone.  read more »

Which is to say, Bill Knapp and Doug Schoen can each buy another house or two.

After this November's election, win or lose, Democratic ad man Bill Knapp will wrap up his "John Ker  read more »

When Mike Bloomberg looks back at the astonishing amount of money he spent on his improbable Mayoral  read more »

When Mike Bloomberg looks back at the astonishing amount of money he spent on his improbable Mayoral  read more »