Oct 24, 2009 7:40 am US/Eastern
With Thompson On Attack, Bloomberg Talks Hot Dogs
Franks & Mustard Seem To Be His Lone Achilles' Heel In Race; Opponent Accuses Mayor Of Staging Subway Rides
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While opponent Bill Thompson stayed on the attack Friday, NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg had a Dirty Water hot dog for lunch with former Secretary of State Colin Powell.
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With just 11 days left in the mayoral race, Michael Bloomberg decided to let his hair down Friday and indulge in one of his favorite passions. Bill Thompson stayed on the attack, which is his passion.
New York City's top dog proved that he could cut the mustard, and, quite frankly, he relished it.
"I love 'em," Bloomberg said.
What the mayor loves, as if you couldn't already guess, are hot dogs, and on Friday the city's richest man had a Dirty Water hot dog for lunch with former Secretary of State Colin Powell.
The thing is … the mayor
really does love hot dogs.
"You know if you sit down with a knife and a fork you eat slowly and talk, but with the hot dog … into your mouth," Bloomberg said.
The mayor was portrayed as the anti-hot dogger in an ad launched by opponent Thompson's supporters. It's a new and highly negative ad in which the mayor is seen as a man with a taste for the high life.
"Bloomberg tried to take a helicopter to a U2 concert. He takes helicopters to play golf. He even takes his private plane on weekend jaunts to one of his many private homes. We've all seen those staged photos of Michael Bloomberg riding the subway," so goes the radio ad.
"I've said all along that Mike Bloomberg doesn't understand the people that he represents, doesn't understand the suffering that working class and lower class New Yorkers go through every day," Thompson said.
The ad is a distortion, says Team Bloomberg. The mayor does take the subway almost every day. He also confessed to CBS 2 HD his deepest darkest food secret.
"I always said if I was going to eat all the meals for the rest of my life in one restaurant it would be a Greek diner," said Bloomberg, who added when pressed if he was being serious, "Isn't even close because they have great breakfasts, great lunches, great dinners and there's a thousand things on the menu. It all comes quickly. It's affordable. And it all tastes good."
So in this dog-eat-dog mayoral race the Bloomberg campaign just wishes its opponent, Thompson, would be frank and honest.
And here's another reason why the mayor may have gone for the $1.50 hot dog lunch. He's trying to save money his campaign revealed Friday. He's spent just over $85 million so far on his third term run -- a spending record.
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