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NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document

PC W 2 . r*i ^Starting Race Against Green, Bloomberg Stresses His Business Past X I'

■i By DEAN E. MURPHY being elected. s and RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD In fact, Mr. Bloomberg made a point of ) Michael R. Bloomberg aggressively shaking hands at a subway stop on the opened the general election campaign for Upper West Side, a neighborhood of liberal mayor yesterday, directly criticizing Mark Democrats that would seem firmly in the iGreen. who emerged as the Democratic Green camp. And he insisted later at a news nominee in Thursday’s runoff. conference that the World Trade Center Beginning on the morning television news attack had rendered party labels and dis­ ■jshows at 6 a.m., Mr. Bloomberg, the Repub­ tinctions Irrelevant. lican nominee, began moving to head off "If we’ve learned anything in the last four criticism that he has no experience in poli­ tics, insisting that any good businessman weeks, it is that you cannot have partisan politics," he said at his campaign headquar­ N «** f t . has learned the art of deal-making. ters on East 56th Street. [ The billionaire founder and majority own- Mr. Green emerged from a primary fight rer of Bloomberg L.P., an international com­ that turned bitter in the closing days to munications company. Mr. Bloomberg at declare that he was the candidate who pos­ one juncture described himself as the Joe sessed the experience and skill to unify ihe Q Hl (Torre or Bobby Valentine of the mayoral Contest. “I am a professional manager, he is city and set it back on course. Behind the scenes, he began wooing supporters of Fer­ o H K a rookie.” Mr. Bloomberg said on WNBC- TV. “This is not the time to have a Little nando Ferrer, the Bronx borough president, who opposed him' in the primary runoff 9o I ■League manager in there.” Thursday. Many of Mr. Ferrer's backers, 00 KJ I He Indicated that he was unfazed by opin­ however, made no promises to support Mr. r*i AjidrcB Mohin/The New Yorii Times ion polls that show him trailing Mr. Green or by the historic odds against a Republican’s Michael R. Bloomberg said the trade center attack made party labels irrelevant. o 03 o o I o o o CO co o CD Cn bo

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