{"id":13590,"date":"2016-10-16T14:07:41","date_gmt":"2016-10-16T18:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=13590"},"modified":"2016-10-16T14:07:41","modified_gmt":"2016-10-16T18:07:41","slug":"too-menial-a-job-for-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=13590","title":{"rendered":"Too menial a job for him"},"content":{"rendered":"

Buried in the deluge of leaked Clinton campaign e-mails is this, “Bloomberg aide suggested the former NYC mayor wanted to be Hillary Clinton\u2019s secretary of state<\/a>“:<\/p>\n

“A former aide to Michael Bloomberg<\/a> suggested the former mayor was hoping to be secretary of state in a Hillary Clinton<\/a> administration, according to hacked emails released Saturday by WikiLeaks<\/a>. In an email exchange between Bloomberg aide Howard Wolfson<\/a> and Clinton ally Neera Tanden<\/a> … who runs the liberal think tank the Center for American Progress<\/a>, said she was relieved and asked if there was a foreign policy position that Bloomberg would consider under a possible Clinton administration. “Is there something Mike Bloomberg would want to do in his life in an Admin?” she wrote. “Is like Ambassador to China way too small?\u201d Wolson responded candidly: \u201cSecty of state <\/a>Which ain’t gonna happen,\u201d he wrote …”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I suspect this more Wolfson thinking out loud as opposed to something Bloomberg himself brought up.\u00a0 Being Mayor of New York City<\/a> is a big deal, even though it’s not top of the political food chain.\u00a0 In a way Secretary of State would be a step down because the job is subordinate to the President.\u00a0 As Mayor,\u00a0 he was constrained by the Governor<\/a> and State Legislature, but was able to say pretty much whatever he pleased, something no President would allow.<\/p>\n