NYC-WTC_000230668

NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document

NEWSDAV, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2001

Giuliani Won’t Seek 3rd Term as Mayor ' He renews offer to assist his successor I • ' '

By Joshua Robin and Pete Bowles '■STAFF WRITERS - . Mayor Rudolph Giuliani cur- & ' tailed an intensive InhbjTng ef- K ' fort to stay on the job for four I mare years by announcing yes- r terday . that he had abandoned ■ his long-shot bid to run for a third consecutive term. it “The city doesn't need division and litigation at this time,” Giuliani said in disclosing that he would not accept the Conser­ vative Party nomination for mayor. “The city needs every ef­ fort we can make to keep it uni­ fied.” ' But the mayor again said he was willing to remain in office for a three-month transition peri­ ■ .Y od if his successor seeks Iris assis­ tance . "I'll do anything that I can to make sure that the city is able to come out of this crisis,” he said. Fl- “It isn’t about me, and it isn’t about the four candidates. It’s a ■fl lot more important than that.” Im s Despite the efforts of support­ ers who were “begging me to i9 I ’ stay in the run for another term” /?■?

' in light of the Sept. 11 attacks ’ on the World Trade Center, Giuliani said he had told Conser­ vative Party Chairman Michael , Long that he would not be on the party’s line in the November gen- h ■ [ eral election, ' “I’m not going to be on the bal­ lot,” the mayor said. “I’m avail- ' able to do the transition I offered B »1» ' to do. If people support it, fine." AP Photo Long said Manhattan attor- Mayor Rudolph Giuliani announces he won't push to stay in office. . ney Terrence Gray would re- , mam the Conservatives candi- ^.,jy from Assembly Speaker Shel- I V z- don Silver (D-Manhattan), State Senate Major- ( Giuliani, whose term expires at the end of Leader Joseph Bruno said yesterday that , the year, said he thought a three-month transi- j^e would continue to press for a three-month tion until April 1 would be the best course. extension of Giuliani’s term but said it was un- “Anybody who thinks they’re ready for this likely the Democrats would go along. , job on Jan. 1, given the monumental tasks Public Advocate Mark Green and Republi- ' ' that lie ahead, doesn’t ready understand this can businessman Michael Bloomberg have ’ job very well,” he said. “The offer is there. If both said they will go along with Giuliani’s people want to accept it, they can. If they don’t transition plan if they are elected. But Bronx , want to accept it. I’m not going to do anything Borough President Fernando Ferrer, who is in to persuade them to accept it.” an Oct. 11 runoff with Green for the Democrat- The proposed transition has received a ic nomination, rejected the idea.

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