Michael Bloomberg: The impossible mayor of the possible

New York’s Michael Bloomberg had riches and a can-do spirit, but after 12 years he had outstayed his welcome, says Jim Dwyer.

THE question was a trap, put to a novice politician who had just been elected mayor and had no government experience.

Would Michael Bloomberg be keeping seasoned hands from the administration of his predecessor, Rudy Giuliani, who had been acclaimed after 9/11 as ‘America’s mayor,’ Time magazine’s ‘person of the year,’ and who had tamed New York City?