If It Looks Like A Perot And Sounds Like A Perot, It Must Be A Perot

Even though he has no plans to run, everybody he meets around the country wants him to run, and his advisers want him to run but he has no plans to run, “at least not yet”:

Deputy Mayor Kevin Sheekey noted the mayor has raised his national profile during a slew of trips around the country — and now he wants Hizzoner to reconsider his vow not to run.

“I hope he changes his mind,” said Sheekey, a key player in both of Bloomberg’s mayoral campaigns.

“Are his views going to change? I don’t know. Time will tell.”

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So far this year, Bloomberg has traveled to Washington eight times as well as making two trips to Chicago and visits to Atlanta, Baltimore and Philadelphia.

And the mayor is headed to Boston on Thursday for yet another event in his crusade against illegal guns.

Sheekey said the flurry of recent trips is not designed to be the groundwork for a White House bid. “It’s not the intent, at least not yet,” he said.

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Asked about the mayor’s recent travel, George Arzt, a Democratic political consultant who served as press secretary to former Mayor Ed Koch, said it’s clear “there is a tasting of the presidency.”

“Despite his announcements that he’s not interested in running for President, it seems that there’s some sort of national agenda involved here,” Arzt said.