Michael Bloomberg may soon be starting his last year in the New York mayoral office but that isn’t going to keep him from being politically active. In a wide-eyed hope to change the political grounds as we know it, the mayor is jumping wallet-first into the 2012 campaign, creating his own Super PAC to direct millions of dollars to help elect candidates from either party who he believes will sincerely focus on bi-partisan problem solving.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg walking in New York City’s Pride parade.
But there’s a catch. The candidate must meet three criteria by supporting Bloomberg’s biggest policy initiatives: legalizing same-sex marriage, enacting tougher gun laws and overhauling schools.
According to the New York Times, among those whom Bloomberg will support are former Gov. Angus King, an independent running for the United States Senate in Maine; Democrat State Senator Gloria Negrete McLeod; and Representative Bob Dold, a Republican from Illinois.
With plans to invest in as many as a dozen House and Senate races, there stands a larger chance that even more pro-equality candidates will be elected, and, let’s face it, the more people we have on our side in D.C., the better. And Bloomberg isn’t stopping there. In addition to state and federal candidates, his organization—which has been dubbed Independence USA PAC—will also back state legislative and local school board candidates.
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