Barbara Bartelleti

What to make of Michael Bloomberg diving head first into a series of contested Democratic primaries today?

Barbara Barteletti of the League of Women Conservation Voters sounded disappointed that the billionaire mayor was endorsing, and not funding, his preferred candidates.

“That sheds a little different light on it,” she said, noting, “Under New York State campaign finance laws, he can throw as much money at them as he wants.” (So can Republican billionaire Tom Golisano and his P.A.C.)

But, she said, “The fact that he’s only endorsing them--that he’s using his political goodwill as mayor in those areas of New York City, means a great deal.  read more »