Well, That Was To Be Expected

After the Mayor revealed that his phone number was listed, and media outlets everywhere ran with that fact, Hizzoner is receiving more calls than he can handle:

“One reporter put my phone number – my home phone number – on television, and that quickly got it onto the Internet,” said Bloomberg during a town hall meeting in Whitestone, Queens, last night. “And, so, people from around the world started calling. And there was roughly 100 calls an hour 24 hours a day from around the world.”

Hizzoner said the volume has become so great, he needs help answering the line.

“We’ve got a bunch of people answering the phone because I just couldn’t possibly keep up with it,” he said. “No. 1, I needed some sleep. And, No. 2, they were coming in faster than I could direct them.”

There is such thing as “voice mail,” you know . . .