Your Self-Reflexive Mayor

Looks innocent now, but get a couple more examples* and you’ll have a real story:

Mayor Bloomberg got some free publicity on the state-created English Regents exam this month, scoring a positive mention in a reading-comprehension passage.

“New York’s Mayor Michael Bloomberg has spearheaded an ambitious plan, unveiled in 2002, to ring Manhattan with recreational, multi-use paths and greenways to make the entire waterfront accessible to walkers and cyclists,” gushed paragraph 14 of the mandatory passage, read by about 150,000 high school sophomores and juniors across the state this month.

After students — all too young to vote for Bloomberg, who is running for a third term — read the passage, an excerpt from a September 2006 Environmental Defense Fund article, they had to answer nine multiple-choice questions and write an essay.

*Not sure if this counts or not.