Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who got a call from Lt. Gov. David Paterson yesterday, told reporters that he spoke to Gov. Eliot Spitzer this morning.
“I told him my thoughts are with him, and wished him all the best, and said if he ever wanted my advice, I’d be happy to give it to him,” the mayor said to a huddle of reporters after an event at the New York Public Library.
Sources say that the mayor called Spitzer, and then the governor called Bloomberg back.
The mayor’s comment, although brief, was somewhat unusual because Bloomberg rarely speaks to impromptu media scrums. However, the mayor doesn’t have a full press availability scheduled today.
That should make tomorrow’s press availability – which may well come not only on the heels of Spitzer’s expected resignation, but also after the release of a new Quinnipiac poll about the mayor’s political future (2010 gubneratorial race anyone?) – pretty interesting.
-- Karla Schuster in City Hall