January 4, 2008 (LPAC)--Lyndon LaRouche today emphasized to his staff that he had issued the first warning that Michael Bloomberg intended to run for President as an independent, sitting back until the phoney campaign of former New York City Mayor Rudy Guiliani had collapsed, as pre-planned. That time has arrived, with Guiliani's 3% in Iowa, and this weekend's "independent candidate" bask in Oklahoma.
"We were right," Lyn said, "when we said that Bloomberg would run when Guiliani's candidacy fell. We made the first warning. The people who said it wasn't true, are they going to apologize to us now, or show how stupid they are?" They should admit LaRouche was right, and they were wrong, LaRouche said. The following chronology on Bloomberg was compiled by Tony Chaitkin:
August 2, 2006: Public promotion of New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg as a Presidential candidate began with a meeting in the home of hedge fund plutocrat Michael Steinhardt. At the dinner meeting, Steinhardt-Rohatyn pet, DLC chief executive Al From, explained for Bloomberg and his staff the logistical considerations for a Presidential race begun as a ``dark horse,'' after the main contenders would have been deflated. This established Bloomberg as a replacement for Steinhardt and Rohatyn's former DLC project for wrecking the Democrats, a ``Bull Moose'' third party ticket of John McCain and Joe Lieberman. Following the meeting, Steinhardt ardently pushed the Bloomberg ploy around Wall Street. The New York Times reported Aug. 4 that "Mr. Bloomberg's plans'' were "making converts among monied New Yorkers....''
August 8, 2006: Senator Lieberman lost the Connecticut Democratic primary to anti-war candidate Ned Lamont. Lieberman began running as an independent against the Democrats, on a straight Dick Cheney permanent-war and dictatorship platform.
August 9, 2006: Bloomberg announced his support for Lieberman. Between that time and the November election, Bloomberg ran fundraising efforts for Lieberman and dispatched top staff members and political aides from New York, who directed Lieberman's get-out-the-vote, polling, and media-consulting operations. Lieberman said that, "no one in public life has done more for me in this campaign than Mike.''
(Note: Michael Steinhardt in 2004 had "come out of retirement" as a hedge fund operator to become partner of"greenmailer" Saul Steinberg's son Jonathan Steinberg and chief owner of the younger Steinberg's "index fund" WisdomTree. Investing about $7 million, Steinhardt made about $130 million off the enterprise by mid-2006.)
May 11, 2007: Bloomberg was the commencement speaker for the University of Oklahoma, whose president is former Senator David Boren. Robert Novak then wrote, under the title, "When New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg delivered the ... commencement address ... he engaged in a long, private discussion about 2008 politics with university president and maverick Democrat David Boren. According to New York political sources, they discussed a role Boren might play in an independent Bloomberg campaign for president, generating speculation about a Bloomberg-Boren ticket."
(Note: David Boren's resume' -- 1963 Yale Skull & Bones, Yale Conservative Party, Rhodes Scholar, master's degree in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from Oxford University (1965), later served on the Rhodes Scholarship selection committee. As a state representative in 1967, he was on a committee to investigate the University of Oklahoma after the school allowed black militant Paul Boutelle, to speak there. Considered a mentor to George Tenet, from when Boren was chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee.)
May 13, 2007: CBS News reported, "After dining with New York's mayor, who is also said to be considering a run for president as an independent, [Senator Chuck] Hagel said people might want to consider the two on a ticket. "`We didn't make any deals, but I think Mayor Bloomberg is the kind of individual who should seriously think about this,' Hagel said. `He is the mayor of one of the greatest cities on earth. He makes that city work. That's what America wants. It's a great country to think about - a New York boy and a Nebraska boy to be teamed up leading this nation.'"
June 5, 2007: Rupert Murdoch hosted the 9th annual Eric Breindel awards, with Michael Bloomberg as the guest of honor. Newsweek senior editor Lally Weymouth introduced Bloomberg, saying "Everybody in New York that I know thinks he's a brilliant mayor, she said. And everyone thinks he would be a brilliant president."
Bloomberg said, "Nine years ago, who would have thought this would be one of the most prestigious awards in journalism? .... Or the most popular site on the Internet would be an interactive photo album called MySpace. What will Mr. Murdoch think of next? I guess you'll just have to ask the Bancroft family." Fox News president Roger Ailes blasted Democratic candidates who had decided not to debate on Fox: "The candidates that can't face Fox, can't face Al Qaeda."
The Murdoch-Bloomberg-Weymouth event took place in the auditorium of the New-York Historical Society, which in recent years has come under the control of neocon financiers Lewis Lehrman and Richrd Gilder.
Murdoch has been promoting Bloomberg's Presidential candidacy in the New York Post and the London Times.
June 18, 2007: Bloomberg spoke at a conference in California called "Cease Fire! Bridging the Partisan Divide" alongside Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who said "I myself think he would make an excellent [Presidential] candidate. It's all about fixing problems, and creating a great vision for the future."
June 19, 2007: Bloomberg changed party registration from Republican to "unaffiliated."
Summer 2007: Ed Rollins, former campaign director for President Ronald Reagan, praised Bloombergs brilliance in an article for The Washington Post and urged him to enter the Presidential race. Rollins subsequently became campaign chairman for Mike Huckabee.
November 1, 2007: The Manhattan Institute, hosted Mayor Bloomberg and financier Felix Rohatyn at a conference entitled "Thinking Big for New York City." In Bloomberg's keynote address, he thanked "the Manhattan Institute ... for more than 25 years of scholarship, and leadership, in reshaping public policy in our city. On subjects ranging from welfare reform to tax policy, the Manhattan Institute's hard-nosed, well-researched ideas have had a tremendous impact.... [Today] the welfare rolls are at a more-than 40-year low.
Rohatyn spoke on the experience of running Big Mac. He explained how Democratic boss Robert Strauss recruited him to run MAC. Rohatyn said, "Mike Bloomberg is another great political leader, partly because he's hugely smart and courageous, but also because he has brought into his administration talented people, such as Amanda Burden and Dan Doctoroff. One of the real hallmarks of his administration has been the quality of the people in his government.... Mike Bloomberg came along [after 9/11] and brought the city back with his spirit, his brains, and his vision. Today, the city is clearly number one in terms of the financial capital that's being created here, even though we have competition from places such as London, Shanghai, and, soon, Beijing.
"We are the luxury capital of the world. There isn't a single luxury store or brand or anything that is not on Fifth Avenue. Not that it's very economical, but it is a big business and it identifies the city...."
November 10, 2007: Lyndon LaRouche released a statement, predicting that Bloomberg would be run as a supposed "surprise" Presidential candidate, saying:
"The build-up of former New York Mayor Giuliani as a `hot prospect' for the man to beat Hillary Clinton in the coming U.S. Presidential election, was a crafted set-up, designed ... for the present New York Mayor to emerge, as if 'miraculously,' as Senator Hillary Clinton's really intended Republican challenger. "All of the relevant Republican king-makers had known fully in advance of the scandal which would bring Mafia creation Giuliani down, using the case-in-preparation against Bernard Kerik to spring the trap being set against Giuliani. To make Mayor Michael Bloomberg a serious contender, Giuliani had to be brought down, but only after ... Giuliani's brief trip to euphoria had cleared the deck.... [Bloomberg would be] a 'man on a white horse' ... 'People's Choice' ... a politically saleable product under the presently shattered reputations of both the Republican Party, and a Pelosi-discredited Democratic pack. "Giuliani must be built up to the degree that his sudden, disastrous fall into a political `Black Sox' scandal, would wreck [and] ... discredit both Giuliani and all his leading current rivals for the Republican nomination. That is exactly what has been done, as (obviously) pre-scripted.
"The standard, expert method for bringing a dictator, such as Mussolini or Hitler, to power by popular acceptance of a duped electorate, is to stun that electorate with a shocking scandal against the leading, existing party systems....''
November 23, 2007: Executive Intelligence Review published "The Rudy Bomb, Defused," exposing in detail the financiers' intention to dump Giluiani's candidacy in favor of Bloomberg's, noting that "We intend to help make such an outcome impossible, by reporting, 'prematurely,' what would have inevitably come before the general public."
November 30, 2007: Barak Obama and Michael Bloomberg had breakfast together and talked strategy.
December 11, 2007: Bloomberg's piece, entitled "America must resist protectionism," appeared in the Financial Times of London.
December 18, 2007: Lieberman Offered To Be Bloomberg's VP, reported by LPAC: Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman endorsed John McCain in the Republican Presidential primaries, particularly hoping to help McCain in nearby New Hampshire. However, when MSNBC asked Lieberman if he might run for Vice President on a ticket with McCain, Lieberman said, "I don't think so."
Then Lieberman offered the following, without being asked: "I was thinking actually, out of speculation, about Michael Bloomberg."
