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New Yorkโs Mayor, Michael Bloomberg, has endorsed Barack Obama for President.
If youโre a cynic, you may wonder why the Mayor did this.ย After all, Bloomberg was the one who said neither candidate was good enough.
Today in his own Bloomberg News, he wrote:
โThe devastation that Hurricane Sandy brought to New York City and much of the Northeast โ in lost lives, lost homes and lost business โ brought the stakes of next Tuesdayโs presidential election into sharp relief.โ
Bloomberg had the cajones to call Mitt Romney on his lies. He said,
โMitt Romney, too, has a history of tackling climate change. As governor of Massachusetts, he signed on to a regional cap- and-trade plan designed to reduce carbon emissions 10 percent below 1990 levels. โThe benefits (of that plan) will be long- lasting and enormous โ benefits to our health, our economy, our quality of life, our very landscape. These are actions we can and must take now, if we are to have โno regretsโ when we transfer our temporary stewardship of this Earth to the next generation,โ he wrote at the time.
He couldnโt have been more right. But since then, he has reversed course, abandoning the very cap-and-trade program he once supported. This issue is too important. We need determined leadership at the national level to move the nation and the world forward.โ
โI believe Mitt Romney is a good and decent man, and he would bring valuable business experience to the Oval Office. He understands that America was built on the promise of equal opportunity, not equal results. In the past he has also taken sensible positions on immigration, illegal guns, abortion rights and health care. But he has reversed course on all of them, and is even running against the health-care model he signed into law in Massachusetts.
Bloomberg speaks his mind clearly:
โWhen I step into the voting booth, I think about the world I want to leave my two daughters, and the values that are required to guide us there. The two partiesโ nominees for president offer different visions of where they want to lead America.
โOne believes a womanโs right to choose should be protected for future generations; one does not. That difference, given the likelihood of Supreme Court vacancies, weighs heavily on my decision.
โOne recognizes marriage equality as consistent with Americaโs march of freedom; one does not. I want our president to be on the right side of history.
โOne sees climate change as an urgent problem that threatens our planet; one does not. I want our president to place scientific evidence and risk management above electoral politics.โ
Editorial, Bloomberg View, here.
Carole