Newsday article on NYC administration year two, 2003

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said the year's most underrated success story may H Hataki Moving i o • Technology i-atin Beat » Real Estate have been the high ratings won by city hospitals in professional evaluations. • Print Edition 0 State Upgrades ■We've shown that the people - not me but the whole Trgpper Cars OPINION administration - does know how to run a city,” he • Letters to the said. "You can question whether It’s going in the right B Rudy Releases Some direction, but those are ideological things.... Nobody Records Editor will say the administration is floundering." • Columnists Bloomberg insisted his persona! transition from technology-age businessman to Part 2 / FEATURES public servant "Is not limiting in any meaningful way" - despite continual chafing » Books with the news media. • Comics Bloomberg also said he would continue contributing to other campaigns as he » Crossword did before taking office. ♦ Food • Horoscopes "I have a right to a life," he said. • Travel Bloomberg added that he did restrain himself, for partisan purposes, from ENTERTAINMENT contributing money this year to the campaign of a Democrat.

• The Calendar "There's one person who ran --1 won't say who -1 wish I could have sent him • Movies some money. But he was in the wrong party. This guy happened to be a • Dining Democrat. He's someone I know for a long time: he’s really good. And he • Theater knows if I could have helped, I would have," Bloomberg said. • Television "I asked the Republican Party for the opportunity to run (for mayor] and 1 won't CLASSIFIEDS disappoint them,” Bloomberg said. "And I will help the Republican Party, consistent with my own personal beliefs. • Jobs • Homes "If the Democrats said to me in 21/2 years, You're running as a Republican. We'll give you the nomination for the Democratic Party as well' - remember • Cars Koch did that - will I take it? Sure. Absolutely. But I'm not going to walk away ARCHIVES from the Republicans."

SITE INDEX Bloomberg's political ascent prompted a morass of unique conflict-of-interest questions involving his holdings, business and charitable contributions. He SEARCH declined, for a second year, to release his tax forms in full but did disclose his charitable contributions. He has separated himself from investing in stocks of companies that do business with the city, and refrained from involvement in picking city bond underwriters because one of them, Merrill Lynch, owns a fifth of his company, Manhattan-based Bloomberg LP.

He said he is maintaining a proper separation of roles.

"If there's anything big, they (company officials] will call me and tell me what Today's Newsday they're doing," he said, "I'm a believer in delegation, as you know.

"I can't ask them to run the company and then second-guess them."

This year, he said, he did not attend a public-service event called "Best of Bloomberg’ with various programs for children. "I've not gone to visit (the Hoy company], ,„ I didn't go to the White House correspondents dinner. I want to Spanish Language keep a distance for a while.” Paper , But he adds, "Next year maybe I'd go, sure,”

til Bloomberg said he would not want to have previous mayors criticise him, noting it would be wrong if he did the same to the company officials who followed him. News/Sports •You don't want people at the company to say, 'Oh, he's coming back,” he said.

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