Wednesday, August 18, 2010

NYC Mayor Bloomberg uses his perch to become national global warming leader, says Mayors step up when Congress fails

"Mayor Bloomberg is keeping his promise to shake up his administration in a third term -- and his latest hire is part of an interesting trend of bringing in rising stars from around the country to join the big time in New York....

is coming next month to a newly-created job as senior policy advisor in the Mayor's Office of Long-Term Planning and Sustainability.

stop me if you've heard

so expect her to do the same sort of national and international outreach here, only with a bigger megaphone.

Eichel will report to David Bragdon, another hot West Coast prospect, who is leaving his elected post running the Portland, Oregon Metro Council

“Amanda will be a great addition to City Hall, and her appointment continues

  • our practice of bringing in the best of
  • to help us make a greener, greater New York,”

Deputy Mayor of Operations Steven Goldsmith said."...


Hitching his wagon to global warming, Bloomberg addresses United Nations in 2008.

Bloomberg News has its own global warming website, New Energy Finance, and is big in carbon trading.
He still owns 90% of Bloomberg, LP:
  • (Vanity Fair, Dec. 2008): "Even today, after a two-year period in which Mike Bloomberg flirted with a presidential run and in which secretive negotiations concerning a possible sale of his company valued it at upwards of $20 billion, very little is known about an operation with one of the largest editorial staffs in the world.
  • (Bloomberg himself owns just about 90 percent of Bloomberg L.P. Based on recent valuations, its annual operating profit is estimated to be more than $1.5 billion.)"...

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