"a review of the 2001 race, drawn from dozens of interviews with aides, advisers and adversaries, makes plain that Mr. Bloomberg’s political origin story owes to almost supernaturally improbable conditions " nytimes.com/2019/12/22/us/…
Bloomberg himself has told people he won not because of Rudy and not because of 9/11, but because the public wanted anyone other than Mark Green. That is not how it went down... nytimes.com/2019/12/22/us/…
"so, too, it seems, were there two Bloombergs: the one who decided he might like to be mayor and saw no harm in trying — and the one, 18 years out, disinclined to remember a world where he almost never was." nytimes.com/2019/12/22/us/…
The Democratic primary was roiled by the presence of anonymous fliers featuring a NYPost cartoon of Ferrer kissing Sharpton's behind. Ferrer team blamed Green. nytimes.com/2019/12/22/us/…
Bloomberg advisers sent signals to Sharpton that he would be more welcoming than Giuliani had been. Bloomberg sent out mailers praising Ferrer for making history in his campaign. nytimes.com/2019/12/22/us/…
