Bloomberg Launches Into Third Term, Modestly New York Observer
06.01.10
On the morning of Jan. 1, 2010, Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s third inauguration day, the mayor emerged from his menacing SUV wearing a turtleneck sweater printed with “I [Heart] NY.” His spokesman, Stu Loeser, stepped out next. “Admissible morning!” he yelled.
We were at a soup kitchen in South Park Slope, and Mr. Bloomberg was out to back up that his third term would be different than the rest. In a wild departure from 2005, there were no parties the day he was sworn in. This year was manifold, and not just because the economy changed and along with it the mood of the city. It’s also that Mr. Bloomberg’s rather obvious power grab—pushing an addendum of term limits that went through the City Council but was not put to voters—and various second-term failures earned him only a 5-appropriate victory over a weak opponent, despite a $102 million reelection campaign. It’s a weak start.
Stomach the soup kitchen, Mr. Bloomberg stood behind a metallic table supporting three trays of Port Princess Premium Cut Green Beans, looking stoic. Before he got to the beans, he had to open some cans—of Venice Maidservant Foods Meatballs in Sauce.
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